You're cheap. At the home games you host, you serve outdated hotdogs on dry buns, while providing various condiment packets you've picked up over the last few years from fast food establishments and gas stations. If your guests are lucky, you might also splurge with some of those dollar store off-brand chips at your home games. Problem you're having is that typically before the game starts, someone manages to bump that expensive card table you found on the corner that you're using for games, and the stacks of those good Anchor plastic interlocking chips have to keep being restacked. You're looking for a solution - but being a cheapskate, you ain't paying a bunch of money for pop-top vials.
Well, you're in luck! I'm gonna show you how to make your own basic chip tube. NOTE: NEED TO ADD, THIS IS GOOD ONLY FOR 39MM CHIPS OR SMALLER
Go to a Lowes or Home Depot, buy yourself a 4' or 8' T12 fluorescent tube bulb protector. An 8' one is just under $9. Next thing you'll need is some Gatorade lids. Go ahead, check your neighbor's recycle bin. I've got kids in sports, so I'm set. Also grab a glue gun. Or some super glue.
Next, cut the tube in about 6" lengths (assuming each player will start with around 35-40 chips). You will also want to cut off the bottom 1/2" from the tube, after removing the plug that comes with the tube, as it flares the end out a smidgen. If you're good, with precise cuts and measurements, and going just under 6", you can end up with 16 tubes.
After you've got a nice section of tube with square cuts, go ahead and take that Gatorade cap, place it open-side down, toss some glue on it and place the tube over the cap. Boom. Done. You've now got a chip tube. You're welcome. Want a lid? Too bad, be glad with what you've got.
Well, you're in luck! I'm gonna show you how to make your own basic chip tube. NOTE: NEED TO ADD, THIS IS GOOD ONLY FOR 39MM CHIPS OR SMALLER
Go to a Lowes or Home Depot, buy yourself a 4' or 8' T12 fluorescent tube bulb protector. An 8' one is just under $9. Next thing you'll need is some Gatorade lids. Go ahead, check your neighbor's recycle bin. I've got kids in sports, so I'm set. Also grab a glue gun. Or some super glue.
Next, cut the tube in about 6" lengths (assuming each player will start with around 35-40 chips). You will also want to cut off the bottom 1/2" from the tube, after removing the plug that comes with the tube, as it flares the end out a smidgen. If you're good, with precise cuts and measurements, and going just under 6", you can end up with 16 tubes.
After you've got a nice section of tube with square cuts, go ahead and take that Gatorade cap, place it open-side down, toss some glue on it and place the tube over the cap. Boom. Done. You've now got a chip tube. You're welcome. Want a lid? Too bad, be glad with what you've got.