What is up with NGC's new holders? Any good way to crack them out?

coinlieutenant

They are like squishy rubber!!!!

TorinoCobra71

NGC has new holders? Please post PICS!

TorinoCobra71

coinlieutenant

No, not new holders, seems like new plastic. It isnt brittle at all. Wont crack!!

marmac

NGC holders are my least favorite to crack because of that soft palstic. Give me an old ANACS slab anyday - one snip and she is liberated.

BigD5

Place the slab on the hard concrete and lightly smash the edges with a hammer until you have achieved your goal.

It's back to basics in slab cracking.

Russ

I use my trusty hammer.



<< <i>NGC holders are my least favorite to crack because of that soft palstic. >>



I'd much rather crack an NGC then a SEGS.

Russ, NCNE

keets

i think the easiest of all time were the PCGS rattlers.

Stuart

<< I think the easiest of all time were the PCGS rattlers. >>

PCI's crack really cleanly in a vise, with no plastic shards...

TwoSides2aCoin

<< <i>They are like squishy rubber!!!! >>




It's nasal snot from a few board members that think ..... shall we say, different than most of us?
They hired a chemist when they had a closed session who found a way to bond the snot with the plastic.
It's quite marketable, but how did it end up here ?

beartracks42

John,

I have found it easiest to hold the slab upright on a solid surface(I use my vise in the garage) and tap the top edge lightly until the seams open slightly at the top corners. Then I use a small straight blade screwdriver and work it around the seam prying it open until it pops open enough to slide the whole insides out. Occasionally one half of the slab will completely seperate.

granddad

Doesn't get much easier than an ANACS slab and a pair of channel locks.

Have a Great Day!
Louis

rmoss

Last NGC slab I cracked, I took to work and used a band saw. I cut the slab just below the label and it opend after that.

xbob

Try bolt cutters. They go through just about anything.

Including bolts.

And Master locks .

robertpr

I haven't yet tried to crack one of the newest NGC's but I can tell you the new plastic was their response to public requests for optically clearer plastic which produces less glare. They're easier to photograph through, I can tell you that.

PerryHall

<< <i>No, not new holders, seems like new plastic. It isnt brittle at all. Wont crack!! >>



The newer type of plastic has been used for a couple of years now. Less brittle due to softer plastic. Problem is that they scratch and scuff very easily and the slabs look terrible after very little handling.