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Thoughts on Ultrasonic cleaning of chips?

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I hear ya, small batches - lol. I don’t really have a good set up for it either, so I’m standing the whole time which kinda sucks too.

A rack at a time is my max for hand washing.
I guess I started out with hand washing, warm water + Dawn, for fairly clean chips they worked fine obviously. But then I came across some super hooker juice and did not touch it at all. What do people use for very old/dirty chips? Oxyclean? But then some people said Oxyclean also changes the chips.
 
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1 or 2 cups
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1 cup
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warm, almost hot. 2 gallons.

I soak the chips in the sink (Kitchen style) for 20-30 minutes then check. If not ready to easily clean soak another 20-30. Test a chip or 2 for inlay leaking as some shaped inlays and TRK inlays (for sure) leak. Also there is some Paulson reds and lighter blues, Tachi Palace $5's and Eldorado $1's for sure that irrecoverably change color, but, 98% of all chips I've done come just fine.
I'm making a video of my method and I'll post soon. 1 rack of extremely dirty chips takes about 2 hours but as you can see the results in the Chip Spa vendor area they come out great. Some chips are 95% clean just with the soak but a lil magic eraser and/or nail brush get's 'em like new!
 
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View attachment 6882 1 or 2 cupsView attachment 68841 cup
View attachment 6885warm, almost hot. 2 gallons.

I soak the chips in the sink (Kitchen style) for 20-30 minutes then check. If not ready to easily clean soak another 20-30. Test a chip or 2 for inlay leaking as some shaped inlays and TRK inlays (for sure) leak. Also there is some Paulson reds and lighter blues, Tachi Palace $5's and Eldorado $1's for sure that irrecoverably change color, but, 98% of all chips I've done come just fine.
I'm making a video of my method and I'll post soon. 1 rack of extremely dirty chips takes about 2 hours but as you can see the results in the Chip Spa vendor area they come out great. Some chips are 95% clean just with the soak but a lil magic eraser and/or nail brush get's 'em like new!
Awesome thanks! Appreciate it!

I'm new to all these chemicals obviously, isn't TSP a "degreaser" also?
 
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View attachment 6882 1 or 2 cupsView attachment 68841 cup
View attachment 6885warm, almost hot. 2 gallons.

I soak the chips in the sink (Kitchen style) for 20-30 minutes then check. If not ready to easily clean soak another 20-30. Test a chip or 2 for inlay leaking as some shaped inlays and TRK inlays (for sure) leak. Also there is some Paulson reds and lighter blues, Tachi Palace $5's and Eldorado $1's for sure that irrecoverably change color, but, 98% of all chips I've done come just fine.
I'm making a video of my method and I'll post soon. 1 rack of extremely dirty chips takes about 2 hours but as you can see the results in the Chip Spa vendor area they come out great. Some chips are 95% clean just with the soak but a lil magic eraser and/or nail brush get's 'em like new!

I clean like 20 at a time
Straight detergent with oxi
Like 60/40 detergent in a big yogurt container
Soak 5 mins
Wash by hand with ultrasonic tooth brush
Done

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