[cpiaaq]

This damage is Katrina related, and some of the chips are completely black. I tried my best to clean them, and got nowhere. Is this how yours are?

[Oldcycles]

Just so everyone knows the black was put on by lazy gaming workers.
Due to their laziness we are fortunate to have any chips but also due to their incompetence we lost the chips to all those casinos.
Russ had won the rights to all those chips from all the casino's after a lengthy battle but some moron in gaming who was a low level bureaucrat had them destroyed before he could collect them.

[kimdol13]

I cleaned a bunch of these for djiley. I used Simple Green and a kitchen scratch pad with water. I think they came out nice.

[Oldcycles]

Originally Posted by kimdol13

I cleaned a bunch of these for djiley. I used Simple Green and a kitchen scratch pad with water. I think they came out nice.

[mizuchaud]

Originally Posted by kimdol13

I cleaned a bunch of these for djiley. I used Simple Green and a kitchen scratch pad with water. I think they came out nice.

The simple green spray you see in Pep Boys? Cmon, need more info.
I was going to scan before and afters on Monday.

Yes, cpiaaq, that's what it looked like. More black actually. The inlay is the only thing not black. The edgespots are barely noticeable.

[cpiaaq]

Originally Posted by Oldcycles

Just so everyone knows the black was put on by lazy gaming workers.
Due to their laziness we are fortunate to have any chips but also due to their incompetence we lost the chips to all those casinos.
Russ had won the rights to all those chips from all the casino's after a lengthy battle but some moron in gaming who was a low level bureaucrat had them destroyed before he could collect them.

Having picked through the boxes of chips in Tempe, they sure missed a lot of chips... and got their "paint" under other dirt from katrina. In fact, in my conversations with Russ, he never said anything about the commission, but said the chips came directly from the casino floor. I call shenanigans.

[Oldcycles]

Originally Posted by cpiaaq

Having picked through the boxes of chips in Tempe, they sure missed a lot of chips... and got their "paint" under other dirt from katrina. In fact, in my conversations with Russ, he never said anything about the commission, but said the chips came directly from the casino floor. I call shenanigans.

He had a problem with the commision.
They came in while he was doing the salvage work and took most of the chips and painted the ones they were to lazy to grab.
Since he had salvage right he was suppose to get the chips and had to fight the commision.
He won not only his chips but the chips for all the csino's that they collected.
When he went to get them he found out some lower guy had taken it upon himself to have all the chips destroyed so he went through all that for nothing.
The ones we got were missed by the commision workers.

Friggin government bureaucrats

[mizuchaud]

I call definite shenanigans:

These did not just come off the casino floor.

EDIT: Oldcycles posted while I was typing...

The top left is cleaned with Tide. You can see the swath of black 'paint' that was untouched by Tide.
The top right chip had an identical swath of black before being SCRUBBED with hand degreaser pumice goo after the Tide bath, which smooths out the cross hatching and still leaves grey color in the hats and the concentric circles.
The bottom left is a typical bad "black" chip uncleaned.
Bottom right is a "black" chip scrubbed all over with the pumice goo hard for twenty minutes. Same thing, still grey hats and grey circles.
I'm basically sanding down the cross hatching till the chip surface is practically smooth. If the chip had square edges before the scrubbing, the pumice goo and my toothbrush scrubbing made them rounded.

What's interesting to me is that the inlay in all four samples are still relatively white. The 'black' stuff whate ver it was, did not get into the chip through the inlay, only through the porous, oil susceptible clay surface.
The edgespots even changed color.


Russ and Amy are on vacation for a long time. I'm actually a bit ticked I got so many 'black' chips. Russel never mentioned some would be f'ed up like this. I though these would be casino dirty, not marked by paint. I have 27 black chips that I don't know if it's worth my time to sit and scrub for hours to get smooth, half grey chips.

[ACE'S FULL]

Originally Posted by mizuchaud

I call definite shenanigans:

These did not just come off the casino floor.

EDIT: Oldcycles posted while I was typing...

The top left is cleaned with Tide. You can see the swath of black 'paint' that was untouched by Tide.
The top right chip had an identical swath of black before being SCRUBBED with hand degreaser pumice goo after the Tide bath, which smooths out the cross hatching and still leaves grey color in the hats and the concentric circles.
The bottom left is a typical bad "black" chip uncleaned.
Bottom right is a "black" chip scrubbed all over with the pumice goo hard for twenty minutes. Same thing, still grey hats and grey circles.
I'm basically sanding down the cross hatching till the chip surface is practically smooth. If the chip had square edges before the scrubbing, the pumice goo made them rounded.

What's interesting to me is that the inlay in all four samples are still relatively white. The 'black' stuff whate ver it was, did not get into the chip through the inlay, only through the porous, oil susceptible clay surface.
The edgespots even changed color.


Russ and Amy are on vacation for a long time. I'm actually a bit ticked I got so many 'black' chips. I though these would be casino dirty, not marked by paint. I have 27 black chips that I don't knwo if it's worth my time to sit and scrub for hours to get smooth, half grey chips.

I know when I bought my rack of $25 from him he told me that they were money back guaranted so I bought them. I havent had a chance to get back with him about these though. I am having the same issues as everyone else, as well. I am going to try the Simple Green and see what that does.


BTW... I even tried paint thinner and that took off cross-hatching and melted the chip...

[mizuchaud]

I guess I was going to send 20 back for an exchange to $1's if he has any left.
Which leaves me with 7 to torture.
Simple Green's my next scrubber candidate.

Originally Posted by ACE'S FULL

I know when I bought my rack of $25 from him he told me that they were money back guaranted so I bought them.