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I was holding a yellow Soprano Six Stripe 10g chip (a sample from DCG) towards a bright light and noticed what looked to be the silhouette of a metal slug in it.
It appears as a darker mass in the middle of the chip, with a central hole, surrounded by 6 holes in a hexagon pattern then another series of eleven holes that concentrically align with the the recessed ring in the chip face. These appear to be the same sort of holes that they use in slugs to let the plastic bond through the insert ....
The other colors I have are too dark to show this, even in front of a halogen bulb.
Can't find anywhere where Sopranos are acknowledged as having a slug.
Anyone seen this before? Maybe this is how they got the 7 gram weight up to 10 grams?
Don't get me wrong - still a great chip for the price. Just wondering about construction.
The contrasting stripes and dotted lines on a Soprano are actually the core material. The outer (colored) plastic and the inner core are molded to allow the core plastic to reach the surface to form the contrasting stripes.
When the chip broke, it was obvious that this inner core plastic (colored white on most colored Sopranos) is dense and more brittle. It fractured with a rough and jagged edge.
The outer colored plastic appears to be softer and more ductile and had a smoother fracture surface.
The inner plastic core has holes in it (just like a metal slug) to allow the outer plastic to key through it to make a strong bond. They would manufacture these by casting the inner first then placing that in the final mold and injecting the outer layer around it.
Since the inner plastic material is denser, then it blocks the light in the same way that a metal insert would.
I guess you could conclude that they are 'slugged', however not with metal.
the middle is some kind of plastic... i ground one up in a coffee grinder and lit it on fire and its went up in flames fast. i dont know what that stuff is, but its funky for sure!
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Man, that's some serious chip abuse... What'd it do to you?
I abused a blue soprano last night by leaving it soaking in neat bleach (to try and lighten the blue). It went jet black and the white stripes went a streaky brown. It looks awful. Don't try this at home kids.
Man, that's some serious chip abuse... What'd it do to you?
I abused a blue soprano last night by leaving it soaking in neat bleach (to try and lighten the blue). It went jet black and the white stripes went a streaky brown. It looks awful. Don't try this at home kids.
LOL - did the same... bleached a purple and it turned brown.. guess if you crap colored sopranos itd be cool... heres the pic of the one i burnt up to see if the material was flamable (kinda like mythbusters CT style)
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