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Can someone tell me the proper Step by Step way to clean Paulson Casino Chips with inlays? (1 Viewer)
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I'm assuming you're not using an ultrasonic cleaner? If the chips are filthy, you'll probably want to dunk the chips in an oxyclean bath for a while before scrubbing them with a brush. I think some people don't like oxyclean though cause it fades the chips but in my experience it only happens if I leave the chips in for too long. For the edges a magic eraser works well to get all the stains off the chips, if there are any.
If the chips are just somewhat dirty you can probably get away with dunking them in a solution of dish soap and warm water, brushing the grime off and using a magic eraser for the edges.
After drying, mineral oil helps to bring the color back on the chips if they faded during the cleaning process.
If the chips are just somewhat dirty you can probably get away with dunking them in a solution of dish soap and warm water, brushing the grime off and using a magic eraser for the edges.
After drying, mineral oil helps to bring the color back on the chips if they faded during the cleaning process.
louBdub
4 of a Kind
Pink stuff.
Toothbrush.
Love.
Time.
Magic Eraser.
Toothbrush.
Love.
Time.
Magic Eraser.
Hey, this stuff is pink stuff too! I wonder if it’s the same stuff. Spinettis sells it as a chip cleaner. Works great! But I just use it when I don’t want to damage a hot stamp. Inlaids get a soak and hard scrub.
OP, it depends on how dirty your chips are. I’ve cleaned chips that were used in a casino for 6 months, and I’ve cleaned chips that were used in a casino for a decade, then salvaged off the ocean floor after the hurricane - different dirt.
I’d start by soaking them in warm water mixed with dawn for like 15 minutes, then scrubbing them with a kitchen scrubber like this.
If that doesn’t make them sparkle, you can start trying things like TSP (but that will dry chips out) or Oxiclean (which will fade colors.)
Lmao, I wonder if this is what comes in the bottles of bong cleaner I used to buy.
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Here is a large thread
Thread 'Ultrasonic Chip Cleaning'
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/ultrasonic-chip-cleaning.1691/
Here is a large thread
Thread 'Ultrasonic Chip Cleaning'
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/ultrasonic-chip-cleaning.1691/
This.
For lightly soiled THCs/RHCs, I use a cheap salad spinner to agitate them. Note: This is not the ultrasonic spinner method described in other threads.
- In the spinner, mix hot but not scalding hot water with faux TSP (Lundmark is readily available in hardware stores). I use about 9-10 cups of water to one tablespoon of Lundmark.
- Then add up to 100 chips into the water.
- Agitate with the spinner for 2 minutes. I stop halfway through and mix the chips with a spoon in case any are sticking together.
- Lift out the basket, and rinse the chips.
- Set the chips out to dry on soft towels.
P.S. With Paulsons, the Lundmark can dry them out a bit, so after rinsing but before drying I may give them the oil-and-water treatment. Add fresh water to the spinner and very little mineral oil—half a cap is plenty. Then lift the basket in and out of the oiled water, occasionally stirring. Many people don’t believe this can work, based on something they heard in 4th grade science class. But it does. The chips are only lightly oiled, color restored. After drying, look for any chips that might need extra hand-rubbing due to excess oil.
P.P.S. With hotstamped clays, you can still use Lundmark/other faux TSPs, but this has to be done with care. If the stamps are at all degraded/faded, the TSP seems to penetrate the damaged stamps and make them worse. Intact stamps seem less impacted. I would use a lesser amount of Lundmark on some test chips before proceeding. Otherwise, try a soapy cleaner such as those suggested above.
Ben8257
Royal Flush
See post #99 to #104 in this thread for step by step instructions
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/hooker-juice-pr0n.50664/post-1688579
There is more than one way to ski.... never mind. But many ways to clean chips... this is the method I use.
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/hooker-juice-pr0n.50664/post-1688579
There is more than one way to ski.... never mind. But many ways to clean chips... this is the method I use.
Is this OK with hotstamps?
Can’t speak to his pink stuff, but I use my pink stuff, Sterlings Magic, exclusively on hot stamps. It’s the safest way I’ve found to clean them because (depending on dirt of course) you don’t need to scrub them with a brush - a cloth will fine oftentimes.
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Soap and electric toothbrush
Love to clean chips
Love to clean chips
louBdub
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It’s a product line. Probably all the same just in a different delivery haha.
Possibly... Though one might expect a different result from bathing chips in a water/spray mixture vs rubbing them with a paste!
louBdub
4 of a Kind
The paste probably helps with that full time hooker juice versus the part time hooker juice.
But then again, my Sundance chips were pretty…. Uh…. Hooker juicy?
BigJackJones
Straight
I had to take a couple showers just after seeing them in your post.
“Now that’th funky like a monkey!” Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream
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Yes - I’ve cleaned probably 1000 HS’s with Sterlings. But, caveat: I cover the stamp with my thumb. The brushing (toothbrush) can damage an already weak stamp.
I suspect it’s more the brushing than the cleaner.
Turns out there’s a dedicated PCF shelf at my local hardware store:
Note here, a third type of Pink Stuff — the Cream, a/k/a the Barry Bonds version.
Note here, a third type of Pink Stuff — the Cream, a/k/a the Barry Bonds version.
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