(Apr. 13, 2014 11:24 PM)DRAGON KING Wrote: How do u know what mold of Rock you have besides Weighing it?
There are four rock molds, three based on the number of cylinders (6, 3, 0) and the fourth the SonoKong one:
The main one, the cylinders, you will absolutely know if you have anything other than a 6 cylinder mold, it's one of the most obvious mold differences in Beyblade, look at the cylindrical structures underneath in the centre of each protrusion. As someone with a 0 cylinder mold it's always surprising that people don't realise those are the cylinders it refers to, haha, but if you have nothing to compare to then I see how that could be confusing.
For the record (and because it's my job to fix it and I haven't done the testing or got the data I want to do so yet), weighing it won't help you at all - Beywiki is incorrect about the 0 cylinder mold being lighter - the metal is moved to the underside of the wheel around the outer edge (producing a sizeable increase in solo spin time). I lack any real data on the three cylinder mold other than the weight on beywiki, but looking at it in pictures I'd assume its solo spin would be the worst of the three because the cylinders are beefed up which means more weight towards the centre.
The SonoKong one is most obvious through weights, but if you look closely it has much thinner edges, and also a slightly different shape and angle for its protrusions (someone else pointed this out to me and for the life of me I can't remember who, so apologies to them for lack of credit) which IIRC are the same size rather than three big, three slightly smaller in the regular version. It's possible/likely that not all SonoKong beys will use this lighter mold as they released proper Mold 2 Earth Wheels around the time Rock Leone was around. SonoKong Rock Giraffes likely almost always come with them.