Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Skewer

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It's almost Valentines Day and you're making Chocolate-Covered Strawberries for your sweetie. You melt the chocolate in a double-boiler, and try to dip in each berry. But they fall in, the leaves get coated and break off, and your fingers get sticky and covered with chocolate. You give up in frustration. But wait, there's a solution. Pluck off the leaves, skewer the berry, and just twist and dip away. Keep your fingers clean and neat. Just use the Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Skewer Technical notes: Design developed in FreeCAD. Print Handle section and Screw section pieces. Apply glue and fit handle section into screw section. Unskewer berries before eating. Hand wash skewers. See "Is 3D Printed PLA food safe?" (https://reprage.com/post/36869678168/is-3d-printed-pla-food-safe) which states "The study found that PLA is Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) when used in contact with food.". Samples printed on Prusa i3 MK3 in PLA with 0.2 mm layer height. Update 2018-02-18: Made hole in screw section larger to allow handle section to slide in easier. No press fit, and now gluing is required. Update 2019-02-14: Added photo of tray of skewered strawberries. The skewers worked great. Heated and melted Hershey's Milk Chocolate in double boiler. For each strawberry: pinched off the leaves, screwed in the skewers where the leaves had been, while holding on to the skewer's handle dipped into chocolate, twirled CW to cover with chocolate, and placed on wax paper sheet on tray. When all coated placed tray in refrigerator to cool and harden.