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EXTRA!!! TR King style TRI-MOON edge spots now available. (1 Viewer)

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also, some of the Deadwoods are tri-moon, y'all might be thinking of those
 
A great addition to the CPC family! Maybe new colours and edgespots on the works? And which one is wider, Rank 1 312 or Rank 2 3MOON/3HC?
 
David Spragg said:
I’d need commitments/deposits to do it. A stock set on a mold that may only run every 9 months means you have to make and hold $15k worth (at cost) of inventory. Plus they will be more expensive than the scrolls.
Maybe someone here could start it off.
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Godzilla28 said:
I'm committed. And there are Oompa Loompas designing this set as we speak. :p

Maybe start an official stock Rounders set interest/deposit thread.
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I am in for a set...1100 chips :) ... please send your PayPal info...I need this set by.... yesterday. Please :D
 
May I ask what model of 3D printer you got, and what type of material you're printing the punches with? PETG? ABS? I've heard the stuff most people print with, PLA, was very brittle.
I ordered a Prusa i3 MK3 a couple days ago :D
 
Nex said:
May I ask what model of 3D printer you got, and what type of material you're printing the punches with? PETG? ABS? I've heard the stuff most people print with, PLA, was very brittle.
I ordered a Prusa i3 MK3 a couple days ago :D
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Flashforge Creator Pro. Spec looks about the same as yours. Using PLA although I tried others. No problem with it being brittle so far. Remember the punch is only pressing out pieces of soft clay, and the surfaces do not come into contact with anything. When you get the printer you will see there are all sorts of different settings for speed/density/layer thickness which affect strength.
 
Is there any "House of Cards" custom set out there? I like the idea (and the series for sure).
Next to that I thought about to change "The Mapes Hotel/Casino" to "The Babes Hotel/Casino". :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
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...announcement a couple of months down the line:

"Supply your custom punch design and we'll make chips with them! *
* no guarantees on product stability"

Well, probably not :p
But when I first read that you were planning to try 3D printer prototyping for punches, I got the idea to try make a set of cookie cutters that would work the same way. Multiple punches for multiple edge spot designs, and some sort of stamp punch to apply a "mold" design on one side.

I'm not sure if answering this would touch trade secrets or not... Do you use separate punches for punching the holes in the chip bodies, and for punching the actual spots from different-colored clay? Also - if the soft clay was about as sticky as butter cookie dough - do the punches have some sort of mechanism to push out parts that get stuck inside the punch?

Since the traditional metal punches are so expensive, I assume you'd use the same punch for both applications - which seems to be very inefficient for me to punch just the spots as there would be so much waste material left over. I somehow doubt it'd be possible to just gather all the leftover scraps from a color and roll a fresh plate from that?

If the 3D printed punches are stable enough to last for a reasonable amount of time, it might be worth it to make separate punches for the spots that would punch many at a time and arranged in a way that produces as few leftover scraps as possible. Might reduce production costs and workload. I'm definitely going to try this when I draw the designs for the cookie cutters. Still going through some AutoCAD video tutorials :p
 
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Is it me or '3TRIM' is a little redundant? (The name would be 3 TriMoon, kinda similar to Commodore CDTV (Commodore Commodore Dynamic Total Vision), or DC Comics (Detective Comics Comics)). Maybe rename it to either 3Moon/3HC?
 
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3HC would probably be the least misleading, as Paulson offers both 3HC and 3Moon.
And it appears to me like the Paulson 3HC has exactly the same shape as the TRK Tri-Moon.
 
Maybe 25, 100, 500, 2000... 400 chip hotstamp set for 10 seats.

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I know... 2000's aren't common, but why not.

Maybe elephant mould?

If the small crown mould is ever hotstamp-ready I'd definitely go with those.

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Dah! Though I knew small crown was out, I just saw:

"Hot Stamping is available on the following seven 39mm molds.
A-CREST, CIRCLE SQUARE, HORSEHEAD, JOCKEY, SCROLL, B-DIAMOND, DIECARD.
It is not available on molds not listed above including SMALL CROWN"

Ugh. I want something other than "A" for my next CPC. Maybe Jockey for these.
 
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Nex said:
...announcement a couple of months down the line:

"Supply your custom punch design and we'll make chips with them! *
* no guarantees on product stability"

Well, probably not :p
But when I first read that you were planning to try 3D printer prototyping for punches, I got the idea to try make a set of cookie cutters that would work the same way. Multiple punches for multiple edge spot designs, and some sort of stamp punch to apply a "mold" design on one side.

I'm not sure if answering this would touch trade secrets or not... Do you use separate punches for punching the holes in the chip bodies, and for punching the actual spots from different-colored clay? Also - if the soft clay was about as sticky as butter cookie dough - do the punches have some sort of mechanism to push out parts that get stuck inside the punch?

Since the traditional metal punches are so expensive, I assume you'd use the same punch for both applications - which seems to be very inefficient for me to punch just the spots as there would be so much waste material left over. I somehow doubt it'd be possible to just gather all the leftover scraps from a color and roll a fresh plate from that?

If the 3D printed punches are stable enough to last for a reasonable amount of time, it might be worth it to make separate punches for the spots that would punch many at a time and arranged in a way that produces as few leftover scraps as possible. Might reduce production costs and workload. I'm definitely going to try this when I draw the designs for the cookie cutters. Still going through some AutoCAD video tutorials :p
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Obviously I can't go into much detail but your vision of the process is a long way from what actually happens :) :)
 
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I've simply never seen an actual chip punch before, so I started from cookie cutters and made some more or less wild assumptions :x
A while ago I believe you posted about some retired punch that you donated to a museum. Are there any photos of it? (Since it's on display in some museum, I guess trade secrets are no longer an issue for this one specific punch)
 

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