[Wooderson]

Where can I buy some? I looked at 5StarDeal.com but they are $.25 each! Yowza... thatsz too mucho.

[Wylecoyo]

I got mine from discountcasinogear.com, they were $0.17 each. Still kind of expensive, but what ya gonna do - its still better than anywhere else I was able to find.

Here is a link if you are interested: http://www.discountcasinogear.com/store/product840.html

[chipper57AA]

If you want cheap poker chip spacer, why not make your own. Get a 1" diameter dowel rod and slice of thin pieces and use them as spacers. You could probably make as many as you want for very cheap.

[Colquhoun]

i have been bothered by the prices of these things as well. I got the idea of using plastic washers, and did a bunch of searching online for 39mm plastic, acrylic or pvc washers. Found a bunch of sites that manufacture washers, but none have prices, you need to submit a request and they will quote you a price.
i figure maybe I'll check out home depot in the plumbing or hardware section for large, flat washers...I'll report back here soon...

[PocketRocket]

Jeeze, I can't believe how cheap some of you guys are and to the extent that you'll go to, to save a little money, ... even if it ends up costing you more in the end! (Actually I have a brother-in-law who is just like that, and every project he embarks on to save money ends up costing much more than if he had just spend the money on the right things the first time.)

These chip spacers are generally just used to separate chip stacks in a chip tray (like a dealer's tray, not a rack.) So if you want to be cheap, why don't you just do what some of the casinos do use a token, coin, or maybe even a low end chip from a different design to separate whatever it is you want to separate. I'm thinking something like maybe a faux clay or one of the metal slug dice or suits chips (everyone's got some, everyone 'fess up now ). Alternatively, you can still get half dollars from the bank, you could always use those as well (or a low value large diameter foreign coin). Another alternative is to use plastic chips from other games or just go to a plastics store and see what kind of disks they might have in the 1.25-1.5" range. Having a divider that is smaller than the chip makes it easy to detect stacks tactily rather than by sight.

And one last alternative that you can get from 5star. Some of those skill stop tokens may also work well as a spacer, and you can get bags of them pretty cheap, and an enterprising person might even try to hustle them off on eBay for that purpose.

[JM]

Go to the bank and get some sacagawea dollars and use them as spacers. When you get tired of them, they are legal tender.

[PocketRocket]

A few years back ... okay maybe it was a couple of decades back ... I used to use Eisenhower dollars for just that purpose until they started to disappear. Like the casinos, I used to use the Eisenhower dollars as $1 cash game chips as well. That was until people started to decide that they wanted to keep them instead of swapping them in for paper money at the end of the night. These days, with the wide availability of chip racks, I don't see a need for chip spacers unless it's for a dealer's tray.

I think you can still get Kennedy halves at some banks, but if these guys are griping about spending a quarter for a plastic chip spacer, a plain ol' quarter may be a viable solution. And as I mentioned the Pachislo skill stop machine tokens can be found in both quarter and dollar (approximately)sizes and can be had starting at about 10¢ apiece.

Originally Posted by JM

Go to the bank and get some sacagawea dollars and use them as spacers. When you get tired of them, they are legal tender.

[dad604]

Make use of your dice chips, another use for them. Use them as spacers. Cheaper than buying those plastic ones.

[PocketRocket]

That was one thought that had occurred to be earlier. Dice or suit chips (that almost everyone probably still have around) would serve this purpose, especially if they're of contrasting colors. And they're pretty cheap these days as well, running around a dime apiece or even less.

Originally Posted by dad604

Make use of your dice chips, another use for them. Use them as spacers. Cheaper than buying those plastic ones.

[Wylecoyo]

Go with the plastic spacers - they are worth the $0.17 each in my opinion. I use them to make up the extra space in the wooden chip trays in my American Oak Poker Chip Chests. My Paulson chips fit loosely in the trays, so I just put a plastic spacer in the row with twenty chips on one side and five on the other. This makes it very easy to hand out twenty chips at a time and I think the spacers work better for me because they are smaller in diameter than the chips so there is a prominent space in the stack where the spacer is, making it easier to pull out one side or the other while leaving the remainder in the tray.

I hope my rambling makes sense.