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From The Chip Vault Archives - A Look Inside Major Clay Chip Manufacturing Facility (8 Viewers)
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Also, cellulose is used as to prevent shredded cheese from caking back together…from southern pine trees. The cotton state strikes again…Roll Tide.
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So my cheese and my underwear are made of the same thing.
Somehow, this checks out.
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Chips, cheese, underwear. It’s all full circle
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ekricket
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Pizza dough roller!
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Back to the formula... TRIVIA - Cellulose when altered to celluloid was a material used in early billiard ball manufacturing.
More trivia:
Portland Billiard Ball Company was later renamed to Burt Company (the owner's family name) when they started making more poker chips than billiard balls. Coincidence they made both, given the materials involved?
Burt Co. later bought USPC's chip-making operation, and the Burt assets were eventually sold to Chipco International and then to Atlantic Standard Molding (and eventually to CPC, where they remain today).
The founders of Chipco and ASM were the General Manager and the Production Manager at Burt Co. before it closed.
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oooooooh I like this game.. what is another major material in antique billiard balls?
Wood, clay, and ivory. And originally, stone.
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Ever heard of Goma Laca?
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BINGO!!!
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Shellac comes from the secretions of the Lac insect... literally bug crap. Shellac was used in the early manufacturing of billiard balls. Wiki "Shellac is a natural bioadhesive polymer and is chemically similar to synthetic polymers. It can thus be considered a natural form of plastic. With a melting point of 75 °C (167 °F), it can be classed as a thermoplastic used to bind wood flour, the mixture can be moulded with heat and pressure." Heated compression molding is used in the process of 'clay' compression molded chips.
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Out of which orifice???
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Not a direction I would like to go on this thread. Break out into self study please
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So to recap what I’ve learned so far, cotton and bug juice key inputs for chips. Haha
Lac secretion below:
Lac secretion below:
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This thread could not entertain me more, even if the next secret ingredients are Tim Walz certified Nebraska horse semen and Donald Trump certified Russian hooker urine.
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Not really astounding when they were already using these materials for other purposes. And it replaced the use of elephant tusks.
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