[strideref]

Hello all,

I'm nearly done with the 98 Bond set. got about 1300 chips which I'd like to oil, much like SILK's did in his similar post. (heck, some of these chips were his ) I think I'll purchase the little foam shoe-dobber-thingy that was mentioned in his thread also.

My questions are:
1: What type of oil should be used to oil chips,
2: What brand of oil if it really makes a difference,
3: How long should one let the oil soak into the chips after rubbing it on,
4: Do you need to try to avoid the labels,
5: How hard should you try to rub all the oil off the chip before its "done", and
6: Do the chips feel "oily" after you're done or will the oil leak out and get on hands/cards/clothes?
7: does oiling the chips makes them prone to getting dirtier than they would get after being used without oiling?

Thanks to all! Being a member of this site has been very very helpful.

[detroitdad]

Originally Posted by strideref

Hello all,

I'm nearly done with the 98 Bond set. got about 1300 chips which I'd like to oil, much like SILK's did in his similar post. (heck, some of these chips were his ) I think I'll purchase the little foam shoe-dobber-thingy that was mentioned in his thread also.

My questions are:
1: What type of oil should be used to oil chips,
2: What brand of oil if it really makes a difference,
3: How long should one let the oil soak into the chips after rubbing it on,
4: Do you need to try to avoid the labels,
5: How hard should you try to rub all the oil off the chip before its "done", and
6: Do the chips feel "oily" after you're done or will the oil leak out and get on hands/cards/clothes?
7: does oiling the chips makes them prone to getting dirtier than they would get after being used without oiling?

Thanks to all! Being a member of this site has been very very helpful.

Follow the directions in this thread. I believe you want to use a mineral oil.

http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/poker-...tml#post585844


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[JoseRijo]

Amen.

Oiling is very easy. Mineral or baby oil is fine. You don't have to worry about the
inlays as long as you dry the chips well afterwards. I let them sit out on a towel for
a couple of days, and you can even stack them between towels if you are pressed
for space.

[strideref]

Thanks, the comments in that thread are quite helpful.

[pogobbler]

I've oiled my 700 chip Paulson set and just oiled 400 of my 600 new ASM Club Cleopatra chips last night. It's a pretty simple process and not much could go wrong and I don't think you need to go to the lengths that some do. I just put an old towel down on the dining room table, poured some mineral oil in a bowl and put chips in, 5-10 at a time, fished them out one by one with tweezers, let the excess oil drip off, then laid them on the towel. When I had 100-200 oiled, I'd go back and wipe them off, one by one, with another old towel, stack them, and put them back in the boxes. Tedious, but simple.

Now, to your specific questions:

1. Just use mineral oil (baby oil is mineral oil with scent added, as far as I know)
2. I can't see the brand making a difference, so long as it's a reasonable quality product.
3. I've not found the time in the oil matters. I think some absorption occurs immediately (as evidenced the by deepening in the colors) and a bit also occurs after the chip is out of the oil and wiped off, as the touch of surface oil left slowly absorbs into the chip.
4. No need to avoid labels that were applied during the chip making process-- they're on there for good. If they were labels you applied yourself, though, I'd think you'd have a problem.
5. Don't obsess over rubbing off every single bit of oil and making the chips completely and utterly dry. Just wipe them off so they're not slippery and dripping oil and what's left will just slowly absorb into the chip over time. After wiping mine off last night and putting them into the cardboard boxes they came in, I checked and didn't see any noticeable oil bleeding onto the cardboard, so a fairly cursory wiping is fine.
6. I guess I covered this one fairly well. They may feel slightly oily right after you're done, but this oiliness is absorbed before long. I'd worry more about accidentally pouring, spilling or splashing the oil on myself, clothes, etc, than oil from an oiled and wiped chip transferring onto somewhere you don't want it. Still, until they're put back away, best to keep the chips on an old towel or something just to be safe.
7. I've not noticed the oiled chips being any more prone to getting dirty than un-oiled ones.

[strideref]

Great. Thanks to all for the advice. I just picked up some oil and an applicator and plan to oil up as many as possible this weekend. I'd like to get the 755 chip cash set done by sunday night. Will post Pr0n as soon as the entire thing is done.

[ttflyr]

I oiled Paulson nationals, I did not saturate them, just wiped with my finger tips and let sit a half hour. Oil was running under 20% of the inlays leaving dark spots. They were ruined. I looked at them a week later and they were slowely returning to normal. What a scare! Be careful and do a small test batch first.....just my .02

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[jamby]

Generic mineral oil works great. Don't saturate the chips and do avoid the labels. Just dab a little oil on a rag and that should easily take care of 6-10 chips depending on just how dry they are. I then lay them out on another dry towel while I do the next 6-10 chips. I then dry the first group with a 3rd dry towel. Keep that process going until complete. I don't see any value in leaving the oil on for a long period of time. If they're dried completely they shouldn't be any more prone to getting dirty than unoiled chips. You don't need to rub them dry either, just pat them dry gently.

[JoseRijo]

Originally Posted by pogobbler

I just put an old towel down on the dining room table, poured some mineral oil in a bowl and put chips in, 5-10 at a time, fished them out one by one with tweezers, let the excess oil drip off, then laid them on the towel.

Tweezers? No offense, but you do have fingers, right? You make the oil sound
like it's gasoline.

[kmalsom]

Originally Posted by jamby

Generic mineral oil works great. Don't saturate the chips and do avoid the labels. Just dab a little oil on a rag and that should easily take care of 6-10 chips depending on just how dry they are. I then lay them out on another dry towel while I do the next 6-10 chips. I then dry the first group with a 3rd dry towel. Keep that process going until complete. I don't see any value in leaving the oil on for a long period of time. If they're dried completely they shouldn't be any more prone to getting dirty than unoiled chips. You don't need to rub them dry either, just pat them dry gently.

This is how I would do it, don't soak them in oil. If the inlay didn't seal properly for some reason, you will get oil under it.

Just do like Jamby said and take a towel (I used paper towels), rub oil onto the chips, then set them aside while you oil more (I did stacks of 25 at a time). Then go back and wipe the oil off and you're done.