Labeling TRK (1 Viewer)

[liftapint]

Soooooo, I am seeing some pretty great label projects lately (@bentax1978 , I am looking at you!). And it makes me want to add some denoms to my sets.

I want to add some relabeled TRK, but I was wondering how that works since there isn't a recess on TRK. I have seen some people say that they were going to mill their TRK -- I don't want to do that. But if I just stick labels on a chip with no recess, they are going to be weird, right! Stack funny, wobbly stacks, etc. is that right?

Would love to do some Mapes $1 and $100, and some Fitzgeralds $500s. But not if it is weird.

Anybody done this, label TRK without milling?

 

[Psypher1000]

I have seen some people say that they were going to mill their TRK -- I don't want to do that.

DOOO EEEET!!! Mill them, I mean. Just do it. And then, label.

 

[slisk250]

Mill the blanks Mel. I have done a few and it is easy if you have the correct bit. I would never try to relabel a TRK with an existing inlay as the work involved and chip carnage would be a deal breaker. Plus the TRK mob will come after you

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[AfterTheFact]

For the record I only did 5 chips and put them at the front of the rack.. I couldn't bring myself to destroy a whole rack of real old school casino chips. I have thought about doing it to fantasy TRK's like Kings Crowns...

You have to take the existing label off or else the labels will rub causing spinners and ultimately damage to the label.

 

[gopherblue]

Careful milling TRKs, even blanks. Those things are like 117% lead, and the lead dust is deadly to inhale. Not to mention it'll turn your workshop into a Superfund site.

 

[BGinGA]

Well, not deadly, but it can cause a fair amount of brain damage......


... which, if considering destroying perfectly fine irreplaceable TRK chips, may already be present.....

 

[Poker Zombie]

I would only consider milling/altering a set of hot-stamped TRKs - you know the ones, that have something worthless on them like 3 scrolled initials that aren't yours, or the "wilburs".

As for lead dust, it's not that deadly. I'd wear a simple mask, and sweep the shop when finished, but the powers that be have built up a real concern (lead) and the masses have taken it much, much further.

Bad is milling TRKs for 12 years as an occupation or eating lead paint as a child (think % of lead to body weight ratio), then question the already existing brain function of a child that eats paint.

I remember busting open an old mercury switch thermometer once and playing with the "quicksilver". People freaked. My dad used to buy it at the 5 and dime, and play with it regularly as a kid. He's 72 now, and still sharp as a tack.

Be smart, but don't over-react. Science, not stories.

 

[12thMan]

I've always heard of "kids eating lead paint" and wondered wtf???

Seriously, is that just an old wives tale or did kids really used to eat paint chips off the wall? For what it's worth, I know of precisely zero people in my life who have peeled paint from a wall and ate it.

 

[Gear]

I've always heard of "kids eating lead paint" and wondered wtf???

Seriously, is that just an old wives tale or did kids really used to eat paint chips off the wall? For what it's worth, I know of precisely zero people in my life who have peeled paint from a wall and ate it.

It's not so much ripping paint off the wall and eating it, but eating old paint chips where it has already cracked & peeled. Apparently the lead content makes it taste quite good (sweet?) which is why it's a hazard for young kids. They put EVERYTHING in their mouths, so if it tastes good they will go back for more.

Also, if you are making dust when milling chips, you are doing it wrong. You should get decent-sized swarf (look it up) but not be pulverizing things to fine powder.

+1 for milling old TRKs with sh1tty initials that no one knows what they mean anymore and no one is using them because all they have are sh1tty initials. Why would anyone be against re-purposing such chips, and breathing new playable life into them?

 

[sleepypiggly]

Not to sidetrack, but lead poisoning is a real hazard, and I’m reminded of a recent article about how some companies take advantage of the low mental capacity of brain-damaged people affected by lead poisoning.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ma...off-lead-poisoned-victims-20150825-story.html