So it begins aka poker chip making quest (3 Viewers)

[davislane]

Attention attention update:

I have figured out a way to flatten the center of the chips:

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This is a 1" stamping blank

I place one of these babies on each side of the chip in my hydraulic heated press, like so:

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Then press it for about a minute at a reasonable temp:
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Then it comes out flattened and smooth in the middle:

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Then you can stamp!

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Thats epic!

Side question. Can you or have you flattened barrels / racks of chips using that press?

 

[Grandmasturkey]

Thats epic!

Side question. Can you or have you flattened barrels / racks of chips using that press?

no but i bet that would work!!

 

[davislane]

no but i bet that would work!!

New thread required. Would surely beat the clamping method

 

[Colquhoun]

My only concern with this method on a barrel or rack is that each chip would need a spacer, otherwise the hat and cane in the mold can mirror onto other chips.

Even using ceramic blanks as spacers, beware that too much pressure over the whole chip can alter the shape. Even using a hand clamp, I’ve had to be careful to only use just enough pressure to hold them in the clamp. Any more is unnecessary and can cause damage.

Love your flattening solution for the center recess!

 

[Grandmasturkey]

New thread required. Would surely beat the clamping method

Gonna try to flatten some bad arc yellows I got recently...will take pix

 

[davislane]

My only concern with this method on a barrel or rack is that each chip would need a spacer, otherwise the hat and cane in the mold can mirror onto other chips.
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Even using ceramic blanks as spacers, beware that too much pressure over the whole chip can alter the shape. Even using a hand clamp, I’ve had to be careful to only use just enough pressure to hold them in the clamp. Any more is unnecessary and can cause damage.

Love your flattening solution for the center recess!

id imagine each chip would be laid flat on the press and not as a stack in the press to allow some heat to be transferred. Thats why a metal spacer was used previously to allow heat to be conducted from the press to the spacer and the spacer to the chip.

 

[Colquhoun]

id imagine each chip would be laid flat on the press and not as a stack in the press to allow some heat to be transferred. Thats why a metal spacer was used previously to allow heat to be conducted from the press to the spacer and the spacer to the chip.

Oh, I guess I misunderstood...I thought there was a question that this could be done as a barrel at a time. Was that meant as each chip laid out separately, next to each other?

 

[CrazyEddie]

Attention attention update:

I have figured out a way to flatten the center of the chips:

Brilliant!

 

[monkeydog]

Attention attention update:

I have figured out a way to flatten the center of the chips:

View attachment 737318

This is a 1" stamping blank

I place one of these babies on each side of the chip in my hydraulic heated press, like so:

View attachment 737319


Then press it for about a minute at a reasonable temp:
View attachment 737320

Then it comes out flattened and smooth in the middle:

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Then you can stamp!

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This may solve the stamping issue with the small crown mould. @AK Chip

 

[Grandmasturkey]

Hot stamp progress!!

Fairly consistent stamps on some old leaded RHCs. This was difficult to accomplish! First clean, then murder, then flatten, then flatten the center as I showed above THEN stamp. Once I do the other side I will oil them! Phew.

 

[moechar]

What I gotta do for one of the chips with these stamps hahaha

 

[Grandmasturkey]

What I gotta do for one of the chips with these stamps hahaha

Oh there will be samples do not worry. You might be the only person who wants them....

 

[moechar]

Oh there will be samples do not worry. You might be the only person who wants them....

Haha that’s totally cool with me

 

[grantc54]

Oh there will be samples do not worry. You might be the only person who wants them....

Oh, im sure there are more

 

[CrazyEddie]

Oh there will be samples do not worry. You might be the only person who wants them....

I can assure you he's not!

 

[Grandmasturkey]

Thats epic!

Side question. Can you or have you flattened barrels / racks of chips using that press?

By the way this does work, it is how I flattened the purple RHCs with a ceramic in-between each chip and on the ends

 

[ekricket]

This may solve the stamping issue with the small crown mould. @AK Chip

Probably leave an impression where the spacers were if it’s smaller than the diameter. If it’s larger or the same diameter then you will have to deform the chip somewhere to move mass to the middle. It’s concave on both sides, which means material isnt just pushed to one side or another it’s concentrated in the edges and there’s a dimple in the center of both sides of the chip.
I think for some reason or another some of the shrinkage ingredients are omitted from scrowns. They would benefit greatly in two ways by some addition of this. Lead compounds were great for this purpose but there are other alternatives.

 

[Taghkanic]

Sounds like you’re gonna want to build a 1" stamping jig, so the pressing can be done in bulk...

 

[Grandmasturkey]

Not my best work but looks like a reasonable chip

 

[CrazyEddie]

yessssssssss

 

[Grandmasturkey]

 

[DrBill]

Nice!

 

[DrBill]

Is it durable?

 

[Grandmasturkey]

Yes. Maybe you can tell by the pressure I'm putting on it here:

 

[THRA5H3R]

This is some incredible work, reconstructing the process from the ground up. Don't discount all the time and materials you're using for development when you start marketing your services!

 

[Grandmasturkey]

This is some incredible work, reconstructing the process from the ground up. Don't discount all the time and materials you're using for development when you start marketing your services!

Yeah it's like $340 per chip lol

 

[Eloe2000]

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Those are two very nice colors to boot!

Bravo

 

[GianThaMan]

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Not my best work but looks like a reasonable chip

Have you tried lathing any of these yet?

 

[Grandmasturkey]

Have you tried lathing any of these yet?

Not yet...

 

[Grandmasturkey]

Not yet...

to be honest with all of you i did a mixture of my things and some paulson scraps to get these all kind of hot and melty together. then made two chips then cut them in half then pressed these together in the heated hydraulic press!