[BigBlue]

My better half is an auction junkie. She has grabbed some "old" chips for me a couple of times.

The first set was "bakelite"?


Now I have a small set of ASM Horseheads, hotstamped with gold denoms. I'd like to clean them, will probably see if I can find some oxyclean.

I assume the hotstamps will be fine. Anyone have any stories regarding cleaning ASMs and hotstamps?


Thanks

[7thSeat]

Originally Posted by BigBlue

My better half is an auction junkie. She has grabbed some "old" chips for me a couple of times.

The first set was "bakelite"?


Now I have a small set of ASM Horseheads, hotstamped with gold denoms. I'd like to clean them, will probably see if I can find some oxyclean.

I assume the hotstamps will be fine. Anyone have any stories regarding cleaning ASMs and hotstamps?


Thanks

Oxiclean can very well clean off the HS from the chips. Try on one chip first to see if your brand of oxiclean will do damage to your chips.

BTW, congrats on the set and do not forget to post pics

[BigBlue]

Some pics... fwiw


In the rack


Stacks of 20 and odds



Stacked by color - Goes 80 high without a wobble... we'll see how it does on felt


Singles - at least I know they are "broken in"

[7thSeat]

Originally Posted by BigBlue

You got to love the colours on the 2, 5 and 10 A nice set even if it is a bit short on 1's.
Thanks for posting the pics.

7th

[BigBlue]

Closer to show dirt


Not as bad on the $2 and $10

[JoseRijo]

Very nice.

I've cleaned hot-stamped Paulsons (Cherries) with Tide and with a PipeShield-type product. With the Tide, soaking the chips for 10-20 minutes won't affect the stamp. But it will remove it after a few hours. You can leave the chips in PipeShield for a week.

You should always experiment with a couple of chips before cleaning the full set.

[Nanook]

Originally Posted by BigBlue

Anyone have any stories regarding cleaning ASMs and hotstamps?
Thanks

I would highly recommend cleaning one or two chips with what ever product you use and then sleep on it for a day or two before doing the whole set.

As far as oxyclean, I tried cleaning some Paulson H&C Hotstamped casino chips a while back with it. I had pretty good results, however you have to be quite careful. I would not leave them in there for more than a minute or two max and if you do use an electric toothbrush to scrub them a bit, then I would avoid the stamped area.

With that said, I would skip oxyclean all together. It takes way too long and the results are not as good as I would like. I have not tried pipeshield, but I have used the diamond chip cleaner product on more than 2000 chips and it works beautifully, much less effort too! It is also much easier on the hotstamp than oxyclean. One knock on it is that it seems quite expensive, but you can really stretch it out easily by diluting it a bit and also once it gets dirty just send it through a coffee filter and into another container and reuse it again. By doing this I can easily clean 2500 chips/bottle even though it only says 250 chips/large bottle on the sales site. At 19.95 + shipping of $5 that is 10¢/chip by what it says which seams a bit crazy, but if you cut it a little with water and reuse like I do and get 2500 chips from a bottle then @1¢/chip that is not too bad.

btw I have no affiliation with this product other than that I have used it and I think it is quite good. It can be found here http://www.thechiproom.com/

Nanook

[BigBlue]

Back from vacation... thanks for the responses and info.


I'll skip the oxy and either call RR for Pipeshield or head to the hardware shop for some bacterial pipe cleaning product. Not a top priority, as it's not a practical set to use anyway. Might be a great HU set?