Oil Mint Chips? (2 Viewers)

[tigon]

Could just be the chips sticking to each other if you oiled the faces as well. I usually leave any chips I've oiled spread out on a soft towel overnight at the very least.

 

[abby99]

Does anyone oil mint chips? Does oiling them make them any less "mint"? I have a few racks of mint chips and am thinking of oiling them to bring out the colors. Any suggestions?

I don't oil chips until I'm ready to put them into play. IMO (fwiw), mint means unused, unshuffled, unoiled, still chalky, and generally unadulterated in any way. YMMV.

 

[BGinGA]

So I oiled 3 more barrels (one of each denom 25, 100 and 500) and they don't seem to have "expanded". So Maybe it was just that one barrel that was already SLIGHTLY larger than all the other chips? I don't know. I'm vexed.

Sounds reasonable to me. Try mixing up the chips and re-racking. If that original too-big barrel contains more than the average amount of slightly-thicker chips, mixing them up will likely take care of the problem.