What is the Allure of Leaded Chips?? (3 Viewers)

hi
Ok, I found someone though a family member that has a Niton XRF scanner gun who has agreed to let me scan some chips. I don't have much for lead chips to have scanned. Does anyone have any interest in sending me some singles on popular sets to be tested? (scanner is in Iowa, so it may be a few months before I get back)

Yeah I’ll definitely have some to send.
 
I've noticed a notable difference between leaded TRKs and Paulsons. TRK did things right!
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To me, what sets old school leaded chips apart from everything else is the feel and texture they acquire after being “broken in.” Excellent condition old school leaded chips that have soaked up years of nasty hand oils and hooker juice just have a feeling that can’t be replicated.
 
Ok, I found someone though a family member that has a Niton XRF scanner gun who has agreed to let me scan some chips. I don't have much for lead chips to have scanned. Does anyone have any interest in sending me some singles on popular sets to be tested? (scanner is in Iowa, so it may be a few months before I get back)

Nice, as long as it reads in ppm it’s good to go. Also test other areas of chip (same color) as they do have hot spots of lead, not by much but as you test different spots you’ll get the common range.
 
Nice, as long as it reads in ppm it’s good to go. Also test other areas of chip (same color) as they do have hot spots of lead, not by much but as you test different spots you’ll get the common range.
Oh not me. I would only be submitting a very small handful of paulsons.
Ok. I don't want to overwhelm this guy either. Right now I will start with these 8 chips and see how it goes. May throw in some NAGB chips just to see too.
Damaged Sterling Cruise $25
PCA $1
Empress $5
IOC Arc Yellow
IOC Fuchsia
IOC Sherbet
IOC Charcoal
I don't know what the black chip was before relabel

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Ok. I don't want to overwhelm this guy either. Right now I will start with these 8 chips and see how it goes. May throw in some NAGB chips just to see too.
Damaged Sterling Cruise $25
PCA $1
Empress $5
IOC Arc Yellow
IOC Fuchsia
IOC Sherbet
IOC Charcoal
I don't know what the black chip was before relabel

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Fair enough.
Those ioc charcoals are heavy guys, I like them. Good chips to start with, Fushia is lightest so likely the least out of that IOC set.
 
There is a world of difference between 40% by weight and 40% by volume.
yes, that was my point.
From my understanding, the 40%, 47%, etc quoted numbers were lead content by weight.
Darson was saying based off the by volume % numbers they posted that a 40% lead chip would be very heavy.
They appear to be thinking the 40% stat people are talking about was by volume when that 40% stat is by weight.
 
Percentages is measured at PPM
1,000,000 PPM equals 100%
450,000PPM equals 45%
60,000PPM equals 6%

Etc, you get the idea.
Think you misunderstood.
I was trying to clarify Darson's confusion that the 40% (up to 60%) stats being stated as lead content are not ppms/volume... but % by weight.
 
PPM for solid materials (and many others) are often interpreted on terms of weight/weight. Essentially, they are dimensionless units since the unit of measure for both numerator and denominator cancel each other out. The messiness of interpretation (w/w, v/v, or other) has excluded it from any real worldwide usefulness of the term in science and engineering.

The reason why lead content varies so much in chips made in the same time period is because there is a big variation in the "other" parts (inorganic and organic chemicals) that make up the colours, the fillers, the binding agents, the lubricants, etc.
 
There are some hot stamped Caesars ncv bricks that are over 13g each, but that is the Max I’ve ever seen for a 39mm Paulson.
In my mind, I feel like those metallic gold hotstamp fracs were the heaviest chips I’ve ever handled. I’m blanking on what casino.
 

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