[tomb1]

There have been many threads about cleaning dirty clay chips, and I wanted to show you some before and after pictures.

These are white $1 chips in the classic Paulson TH&C standard inlay mold, with kinda cool edge spots for a $1 chip. I picked them up while playing poker at the Grand Casino in Gulfport MS last night -- after a week working out of town I can't quite seem to make it past Gulfport without stopping, but that's another story.

I culled through my rack and picked out 20 good chips - nice square edges, nearly new, good surface, no nicks, etc. Even though they were the best chips, they were still pretty dirty from poker play. Here are a few representative chips:



So after taking them home, I cleaned them by hand with Orange Clean and a toothbrush, and they came out pretty well. Here they are clean and oiled:

[pie taster]

After playing in a casino.. i always wash my hands immediately afterwards....

After seeing your "before" pictures.. I have to wash my hands

Nice clean up job!

[TenPercenter]

That's a world of difference. I wonder how casinos clean them? Surely there's an automed way to do a lot at once...

[hayaku]

wow huge difference. Nice chips too.

[TomHimself]

nice job man. but theres probaly some machine that can clean multiple chips at a time

[djriley]

Here's some "before and after pictures" of mine. I use quick'n brite. I've been working on cleaning this set for some time now. With 600 or so chips I'll have the entire set clean sometime this summer!

[tomb1]

Yeah, those Discovery chips are a nice classic set, and they clean up great!

[djriley]

It's just too bad $100 and $500 chips are impossible to find. They are nice chips - and have seen alot of table play.

[crupt]

I dont think the casinos clean there chips at all, hell i know trumps Dont! But those are some dam nice chips

[tomb1]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

That's a world of difference. I wonder how casinos clean them? Surely there's an automated way to do a lot at once...

I read somewhere that casinos have automated chip-cleaning equipment. But I can't remember where I saw that or point to a web site.

But most casino chips seem moderately dirty, so they must not clean them much/often. BTW, I picked white chips to show the stark difference between clean and dirty. If you look at those Discovery chips, they don't look quite as bad as my whites, though the grime is still there. In real time at the Grand, their white chips just kinda look gray, you don't see them as dirty as they look on the scanner.