Rest of the chips arrived and they're still awesome. The box was in pretty rough shape....
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The postal service during a pandemic I guess. Picking it up I could hear the dreaded sound of lose chips.
Thankfully there were no real casualties. All chips were packaged in chip boxes but I think an impact must have busted one of them open as at the bottom of the box I found this...
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No broken chips, surprisingly. This rack, however, did suffer from some color transfer and a few minor flea bites on about 10-15 of them. I reached out to Jim to let him know. He immediately offered to get me a some spares even though this was the fault of the post. Great service from the Chip Room as usual.
Here's a comparison of chips. Neither are oiled and both have been dusted off and shuffled.
Left: from the busted rack. Right: from the intact rack.
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So I decided I'd take 10 of the most dinged up chips from that rack and try the water/oil trick to pretty them up and it didn't disappoint.
Left: unoiled chips from an intact rack. Right: oiled chips from the rack that broke open.
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Top: Chips oiled from the broken rack. Bottom: unoiled chips from the intact rack.
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Is the community split between oiling new Paulsons because those 10 oiled chips look and feel soooo much better than any of the other stacks of the 1200 that I ordered.
I'm really tempted to oil the set now. Thoughts?