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03-12-2006, 11:03 PM
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Odd thing just happend. I was shuffling my ASM chips while playing online and i noticed 2 spinners in the stack. As i pick up the chip i noticed that the inlay was somewhat floating up in the middle. It appears that the glue underneath has loosen up. As i press my fingers on the center of the inlay, wow, it poped right off my chip. Has any of u experience this before? I saw that their was very little glue applied underneath. |
03-12-2006, 11:07 PM
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I think the glue is only used to posistion the lables on the chip before it is compressed. |
03-12-2006, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by viet rounder wow, it poped right off my chip. Has any of u experience this before? | I think I remember reading somehwere on CT about jojo complaining that he had a couple inlays pop off some ASM's.
Could be wrong though....
How 'bout it, Jojo...was it you?
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03-13-2006, 01:45 PM
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I have never had a chip lose it's inlay from normal use. However I did snap a chip in half once (on purpose with some plyers) and it came off fairly easy.
Why would I purposely break a chip?
I did it to test the chips durability. It was an ugly chip to boot.
ASM adds extra chips just in case you get any bad ones. I don't suspect it should happen too often. |
03-13-2006, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by viet rounder Odd thing just happend. I was shuffling my ASM chips while playing online and i noticed 2 spinners in the stack. As i pick up the chip i noticed that the inlay was somewhat floating up in the middle. It appears that the glue underneath has loosen up. As i press my fingers on the center of the inlay, wow, it poped right off my chip. Has any of u experience this before? I saw that their was very little glue applied underneath. | I recently broke an ASM sample chip in half and the inlay was also just barely glued on. Makes one wonder if ASM makes their chips for casinos with a different process (as I would have suspected) which is more durable and long lasting? Maybe even the "clay" composition is slightly better as well for the real chips? |
03-13-2006, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by boondocker96 I think I remember reading somehwere on CT about jojo complaining that he had a couple inlays pop off some ASM's.
Could be wrong though....
How 'bout it, Jojo...was it you? | it was me, and this is pretty much how it went down.
i will resist the urge to say "i told you so." oops, just did  |
03-13-2006, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by noelsarchs I recently broke an ASM sample chip in half and the inlay was also just barely glued on. Makes one wonder if ASM makes their chips for casinos with a different process (as I would have suspected) which is more durable and long lasting? Maybe even the "clay" composition is slightly better as well for the real chips? | I read on another site that this is indeed true. To cut down on cost, ASM had to reduce the percentage of clay material (or whatever they use for real casinos) and other quality aspect in order to make the chips more feasible for the home market. The Palmas chips that u own are apparently of much higher quality.
Its a good thing this happened when no one was around or they'd all be looking at me and signaling "how much did u pay for these?" |
03-13-2006, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by jojobinks i will resist the urge to say "i told you so." oops, just did |
Are you not happy with your ASM chips? Cause I just dropped $1500 on some ASMs and I am curious to see what others have to say. |
03-13-2006, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by zbme Are you not happy with your ASM chips? Cause I just dropped $1500 on some ASMs and I am curious to see what others have to say. | i don't have a set, mostly b/c of my experience with them at a friend's game. you don't want to ask me what i think. many many others love them... |
03-13-2006, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by viet rounder The Palmas chips that u own are apparently of much higher quality. |
I don't think Palmas are made any differently than present day ASM's. I have some Palmas and they are not the same as some older (1950's-60's) chips |
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