Palm beach cruise line REHAB thread. (1 Viewer)

bivey said:
Oxyclean followed by mineral oil.
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i think that is the best solution for super dirty chips....for paulson casino chips, i would let them soak in a 25% Oxy with 75% water for a few hours, some overnite and it never hurt any, once in awhile you get water under an inlay but just let it air our for a few days and it usually will dry ....go light on the mineral oil and let those dry fully before you rack em up otherwise they will stick together
 
I dunno. This sure looks like job for an ultrasonic to me.
I can no longer loan mine, since I have >2000 chips to clean now.
But you totally should invest in one -- GREAT investment.

Or, of course, you can ship chips to me to run through the ultrasonic...and see if I ship them back! GAMBOL!!
 
liftapint said:
I dunno. This sure looks like job for an ultrasonic to me.

Or, of course, you can ship chips to me to run through the ultrasonic...and see if I ship them back! GAMBOL!!
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This is actually tempting. That's how much I HATE cleaning poker chips.
 
Ultrasound arrived today. Got a few short runs in with some roulette chips before the wife cut me off. Just waiting on my TSP. Then I get to work.
 
Every time I see the title of this thread.

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It's really secretly named after the sick pool scene at Hard Rock in Vegas
 
Got more powerful u/s and TSP running today. It's not even close. Chips are really clean with the exception of some caked in grime on the recesses of hats and canes. A pick should do the trick 2-5% of chips have this problem.

Where I started. Yikes!

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Where I ended up before dinner:

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Is there even a difference?!

Still a lot of stickers to peel off, ugh:

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And some unoiled, but very clean, cheques:

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Well, it turns out I was way off on the sticker counts and have spent the better part of the last two days de-stickering when not at work or with my fam.

So I now have only 20 chips left to de-sticker.
75% cleaned
5% oiled

And I found one chip that had ancient layer of scotch tape on it. It didn't look damaged until I scraped all of the grungy tape off, which was not easy:

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So that's two broken chips out of ~2400.
 
Your restoration project is looking great! 2/2400 is a very nice damaged-to-good ratio. Are you doing the oil/water mixture trick for mineral oil application?
 
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inca911 said:
Your restoration project is looking great! 2/2400 is a very nice damaged"good ratio. Are you doing the oil/water mixture trick for oil application?
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No, just mineral oil. I have a method that works for me but I have no secrets on moving through the process quickly. I just grab a barrel at a time and while watching television slowly make progress.
 
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Man, that is a crap-load of $25s. Why so many, I wonder?
 
AWenger said:
Only a guess, but maybe these chips were for table games, not for a poker room, with minimum bets of 25?
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I'm sure that's a lot closer to the real answer; I just liked the idea of a huge $100/200 limit game. :)
 
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Looking to forage from Vegas chips some $1s. I had thought about 2V chips from Plaza or Binions, but I'd like to stay closer to the original:

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Thanks to @bentax1978 , this seems to be the closest contender:

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Curious is anyone has any other thoughts, Vegas or otherwise. I'd like to stay with THC mold. SCV/LCV are both good, but no HC or RHC molds allowed!
 
Done! Just in time to harvest a few hundred $1s.

Out of the 600 $5s I received, 340 SCV, 260 LCV. I have not yet sorted out the different red dyes.

These are the chips I'm keeping:

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Leaving these for sale:

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bentax1978 said:
I agree, whoever came up with that idea is a chip genius. :whistle: :whistling:

Kidding aside, they look great. Glad you were able to pickup a couple racks (y) :thumbsup:
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I had asked Bivey to get some for me but it wasn't easy and new/mint are harder to find...but it worked out when James in Ohio culled 200 mint Jack Cincy $2s for me. Those will make great $1s for my relabel RHC set.
 
slisk250 said:
I had asked Bivey to get some for me but it wasn't easy and new/mint are harder to find...but it worked out when James in Ohio culled 200 mint Jack Cincy $2s for me. Those will make great $1s for my relabel RHC set.
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New/mint ones are tough. I was able to grab a barrel for Gear while I was in Vegas, but it took working through several racks to get 20 really good ones.

Fortunately, Bivey didn't need/want mint ones for his set since they are intended to match the rest of his set, which is used.

And those $2 Jack chips will make awesome $1 chips!
 
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