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Tide Detergent w/Bleach Alternative - Revolutionizing Chip Cleaning!

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After reading the review on the Diamond Chip Cleaner product that wilson wrote, I decided to have some fun and try using my Tide Detergent w/Bleach Alternative to see if it performs similar to the Diamond Chip Cleaner. Before this, I had always used some kind of soap to clean my chips. When I started out, I did not expect much. I poured a little bit of the detergent into a cup, then filled it with hot water, and finally put as many chips as I could fit into the cup. I waited half an hour and then started scrubbing. To my surprise, I only needed to scrub each side of the chip for 5 seconds (I usually do about 30 seconds) to turn my dirty chip into a very clean chip! Remembering that with the Diamond Chip Cleaner, you only needed to wipe the chip and the dirt will come off, I tried rubbing the chip with a towel, and most of the dirt did come off! However, I continued to brush the chips to remove the hotstamps. After another 30 minutes of this (60 minutes total from start of putting the chips into the solution) I noticed that it was VERY easy to brush the dirt away and also noticed that my cup of solution with chips in it had turned dark and cloudy. So I tried wiping the chips again, and I found that ALL of the dirt came of fairly easily! The chunks of dirt also came off easyly! I do not have a digital camera an thus am not able to post pictures, but does anyone wanna try this to confirm my findings? Could someone with the diamond cleaner solution try this with detergent (and detergent w/bleach in it already) to compare the results? I was also thinking of using the no rub contact cleaning solutions and soaking the chips with that, but that's another experiment for another day .

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Re: Tide Detergent w/Bleach - Revolutionizing Chip Cleaning!

Tide is great stuff. The enzymes do wonders when it comes to cleaning. I soak my golf clubs in hot water and tide quite often, to bring out the like-new shine. I am sure the enzymes are doing the hard work on the hcips coated in hand-oils, dirt and grime...
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Re: Tide Detergent w/Bleach - Revolutionizing Chip Cleaning!

hmmm... Sounds good, i'll have to give it a shot
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Re: Tide Detergent w/Bleach - Revolutionizing Chip Cleaning!

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Tide is great stuff. The enzymes do wonders when it comes to cleaning. I soak my golf clubs in hot water and tide quite often, to bring out the like-new shine. I am sure the enzymes are doing the hard work on the hcips coated in hand-oils, dirt and grime...
Never thought of using Tide for my golf balls. Not a bad idea. I like my golf balls to be nice and clean when I chunk them into the drink.

Back to the chips though, was the hotstamp able to be fully removed with using Tide and not damaging the inlay?
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Re: Tide Detergent w/Bleach - Revolutionizing Chip Cleaning!

Were these clay chips that you had such success cleaning and removing the hotstamp from?
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Re: Tide Detergent w/Bleach - Revolutionizing Chip Cleaning!

The hostamps will not come off if you just soak and wipe the chips. I am removing the hotstamps by scrubbing with a toothbrush after they have been soaked.

The chips that I am cleaning are the super cheap used cracked paulsons that jim is selling. They are great chips and great for the college budget .
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Re: Tide Detergent w/Bleach Alternative - Revolutionizing Chip Cleaning!

Is this damaging the inlay at all? I have some of these on the way and this is great news if the inlay doesn't get ruined.
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The hostamps will not come off if you just soak and wipe the chips. I am removing the hotstamps by scrubbing with a toothbrush after they have been soaked.

The chips that I am cleaning are the super cheap used cracked paulsons that jim is selling. They are great chips and great for the college budget .
i have some on the way as well... toothbrush doesnt get hotstamps off, but a mr clean magic eraser works wonders! how are the chips even with the cracks?
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Re: Tide Detergent w/Bleach Alternative - Revolutionizing Chip Cleaning!

The chips, even with cracks, are awesome. I tried using an eraser and it doesn't work with these chips because the labels are vinyl lables. I just scrub hard and the hotstamp comes right off . It's hard to get every single bit of it though so most of my chips still have specks of gold left on their labels.
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