[davejs1671]

If you are using the clamp method then you definitly want ceramic chips on both ends and in between each chip. The reason is because that will distribute the pressure evenly. Without the ceramics on the end you will get more pressure where the clamp touches and less starting at the clamp edge going out towards the end of the chip. I would also make sure that the chips are stacked evenly in a straight line or else you may flatten some of the chips at an angle and end up with chips that are not the same thickness around the edges.

[searcher]

Originally Posted by davejs1671

If you are using the clamp method then you definitly want ceramic chips on both ends and in between each chip. The reason is because that will distribute the pressure evenly. Without the ceramics on the end you will get more pressure where the clamp touches and less starting at the clamp edge going out towards the end of the chip. I would also make sure that the chips are stacked evenly in a straight line or else you may flatten some of the chips at an angle and end up with chips that are not the same thickness around the edges.

Thanks for the advice.

[Josh7975]

Originally Posted by searcher

I contacted GPI(Paulson) about the warpage issue. The woman who answered the phone stated flatly that GPI(Paulson) does not make any chips for home usage. I told here they do and requested to speak to a salesman. She hooked me up with a Justine Woodard, a regional salesman I think. He also denied that Paulson makes any chips for the home market. He said they have not made any since 1998. I ended this bizarre conversation and told him that I would have some retailer of Paulson chips call him and convince him that Paulson does indeed make chips for the home market.

This is so bizarre. Everything about paulson just seems secretive and weird. Too bad they make such great chips.

Has anyone ever met someone who works for paulson? Not salesmen, but craftsmen? oompaloompas maybe? Or are they all sworn to secrecy?

[mizuchaud]

My oven is a tricky thing, so I went with just the c clamp method.
Took two pieces of flat plastic laminate board scraps, stuck five stacks of twenty chips between the two pieces, clamped the whole thing together with a few clamps, and left the whole thing alone for a few days.

Four out of the five twenty chip stacks do not show much of the side wobble I used to have. I repeated the exercise with the other rack of slightly wobbly chips. I will finish off the resistant stragglers with a second 'clamping'.

I like this method, because I don't have to worry about a melting episode. I don't have to time it at all. I just come back to the basement after a few days and unclamp to check out the stacks.

The pressure alone from clamping brought the wobbly stacks down half a chip diameter's height from where it used to be. I merely hand tightened until I couldn't do it anymore. After a day, I came back and tightened it more if I could.
The previously wobbly chips now line up very well with the other chips from the set. they still have a slight wobble, but much more forgivable than before.

(Note: these are solid hotstamped uncirculated Paulsons. They were shipped with other uncirculated Paulsons that did not arrive wobbly. I have no idea what caused the wobble in these.)

I like the result so much I don't think I am going to sell them anymore...

200 white Paulsons back in the mix, woot.

[tekcor1]

Originally Posted by Roc-A-Fella_1

What does it mean for a chip to be warped? I dont quite see it in the pictures.

You know, warped. If you look really closely you can make out one of the chips in this stack is slightly warped.



These are Paulsons. Apparently they don't do so well in a hot car in summer...

[NoFear]

Interesting.....I may have to test it out myself to see if it is true.

Where did you live? The Death Valley?

[tekcor1]

Originally Posted by NoFear

Interesting.....I may have to test it out myself to see if it is true.

Where did you live? The Death Valley?

You would think, right? I actually live around Seattle. Truth really is stranger than fiction. I didn't do it myself either. These chips were on loan to someone else.

[Vince]

Thanks to Felix for giving me a headsup on "cold unwarping" my desk looks like this right now.

[Felix]

Haha...i think that will do the trick

At least you found some "weight" to put on them.
Way better than going out and ripping the bricks out of the pavement in front of you house

[Vince]

Originally Posted by Felix

Haha...i think that will do the trick

At least you found some "weight" to put on them.
Way better than going out and ripping the bricks out of the pavement in front of you house

LOL, actually my first though was to check the garden for some pricks or some big plants, but the chips are pretty much under pressure, I can't move any of the chips whatsoever. But there is still more room for golf magazines.