that's 6 more weeks of what?
That went over my head. :-/that's 6 more weeks of what?
That went over my head. :-/
ohhhhh. Punxsutawney Phil.thats because you live in LA, so you don't have to deal with groundhog day.
Get in line, pal.Uhhhh, I'll happily be your full time dealer (ex casino dealer) if I'm getting tipped $25 a hand!
Beautiful, but surprised you don't go with the watermelon Jack's
How come the edge spots don’t match the face on the top chips in the right and back stacks?Continuing along the slow roll of barrel pr0n of TRK chips usually not seen in quantity, this quarter pie is absolutely breathtaking. @leo822 tells me there are two versions: one with a black denom and one with a red. This is, obviously, the latter.
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How come the edge spots don’t match the face on the top chips in the right and back stacks?
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How come the edge spots don’t match the face on the top chips in the right and back stacks?
I would imagine it’s just an interesting quirk of compression, but I look forward to some closeups too.
I had my assistant look for it and take a photo, looks like some of the red (orange?) spots bleed into the territory of the green. I’ve always known TRK manufacturing to have quirks, but am not knowledgeable enough to know if that’s because it was a manual process, or something to do with the clay compression.
I'd say that it's just because the colors/material wasn't injected proportionately. I've seen quite a few chips on a quarter pie that had let's say a larger piece of a color than another. Just one of those little quirks with production when things were made. Although I'm sure they tried to keep things as consistent as possible, not everything was perfect.This is interesting. I used an app called PhotoMeasure to see if the spots aligned in a square, and there’s a marked difference, creating a trapezoid in the error chip.
I asked her to take a photo of one of the chips with the black denom for comparison from the same angle, and the lines form almost a perfect square.
Do any resident TRK / manufacturing experts know why? Is it because the chip inserts used manual labor for compression?
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Fun 100/200/400 Sunday night game with the Jack Detroit set. The saturation police and I had a stare-down, but my Adobe apps didn’t seem to GAF.
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That’s interesting. Would that account for a part of one of the colors “bleeding” slightly into the adjacent clay, if they were misaligned and then compressed, where the clay of one color on the side extends a bit into the adjacent clay color?Here's my guess about why the sectors of a quarter-pie might not be perfectly aligned:
The quarter pie chip is assembled out of a few smaller pieces which were punched out of larger sheets of clay. The assembled chip is still larger than the actual chip will be; it's still a slug that will get pressed to become the final chip. When the slug is put into the mold, that's done by hand, and since it's a manual process the slug isn't necessarily going to be perfectly centered within the mold.
When the chip is pressed, all the extra clay that's lying outside the mold gets clipped off, and what remains is perfectly round. But if the slug wasn't perfectly centered, then the "X" / "cross" made by the quarter-pie pieces won't be perfectly centered either, and the points where the X/cross touch the edge of the circular chip won't make a perfect square.
Sick
I think only someone who's seen the pressing done first-hand can really answer that. But even just based on what David Spragg has shared about how things work at CPC...That’s interesting. Would that account for a part of one of the colors “bleeding” slightly into the adjacent clay, if they were misaligned and then compressed, where the clay of one color on the side extends a bit into the adjacent clay color?
very soft and squishy
it gets squished and squeezed
This is starting to sound like 'Stranger Things' closed captioningcause the sort of "bleeding"
Do the rest of the barrels have the same look?This is interesting. I used an app called PhotoMeasure to see if the spots aligned in a square, and there’s a marked difference, creating a trapezoid in the error chip.
I asked her to take a photo of one of the chips with the black denom for comparison from the same angle, and the lines form almost a perfect square.
Do any resident TRK / manufacturing experts know why? Is it because the chip inserts used manual labor for compression?
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Do the rest of the barrels have the same look?
Some chips do. Some chips don’t. Some actually have their entire crown mold off center, like this one.
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he would probably want to mill them...These aren’t the prettiest fracs in the world, but they’re pretty rare. Cactus Pete’s quarters.
CC, because he loves this casino: @Josh Kifer