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Cleaning Chrome Cards

BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭
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Does anyone have any tricks for getting fingerprints, etc., off the surface of chrome cards?

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  • cohocorpcohocorp Posts: 1,371 ✭✭
    blowtorch?
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  • iamthegreatcornholioiamthegreatcornholio Posts: 3,366
    I have used eye-glasses tissues. Basically they're designed so that they don't scratch the lenses, and they don't leave little fibers on the surface either.
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>blowtorch? >>



    Awesome! Another vintage card snob!
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>I have used eye-glasses tissues. Basically they're designed so that they don't scratch the lenses, and they don't leave little fibers on the surface either. >>



    Thanks for the tip! I'll give that a shot.
  • cohocorpcohocorp Posts: 1,371 ✭✭
    i was just playin with ya boopotts
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  • calleochocalleocho Posts: 1,569 ✭✭
    image
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  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>image >>




    OK, I'll give it up-- that's pretty funny.

    How much does a quart run, anyway?
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>i was just playin with ya boopotts >>



    No harm, no foul. Thanks for clarifying.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boo

    I have a boatload of chromes or high gloss cards that have light scratches or lines that look like they may have been done by the rollers when the sheets come of the press?

    Does PSA nail ya for that?

    mike
    Mike
  • calleochocalleocho Posts: 1,569 ✭✭
    Actually ...there is some type of liquid used to clean glossy pictures.. you should try an advance photo store ...they might have some neat stuff.



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  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>Boo

    I have a boatload of chromes or high gloss cards that have light scratches or lines that look like they may have been done by the rollers when the sheets come of the press?

    Does PSA nail ya for that?

    mike >>



    They hit me pretty hard for that-- I don't know what everyone else's experience is like. .But I've submitted quite a few Finest, Bowman's Best, etc. with those very faint scratch marks and they always either come back an 8 or a 9.

    One thing about the ultra-modern stuff is that you really, really have to take your time and go over each card. Hold it up to the light, carefully loupe it, etc. If you don't do this you can get stuck with a bunch of $.99 slabs which just take forever to move.
  • montanafanmontanafan Posts: 632
    boo - try rubbing alcohol and q-tips image



    and only do it on the chromes of course...
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    This brings up an even better question. Say you have a chrome card that's perfect in every way. Then you take your thumb and leave a big fingerprint on it, then submit it. Will PSA knock it down, will they give it a 10 anyway and slab it with the print, or will they wipe the print off before slabbing it so their Gem Mint slabs don't look like crap? I guess it would depend on the grader.

    Lee
  • montanafanmontanafan Posts: 632
    they would nail you for it i think.. over time the oil from the fingerprint could stain the card, making it no longer gem mint.. plus it looks like crap
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    you guys are all nuts. I fog the damn things up with my breath and then wipe em down good with whatever shirt I am wearing. Have not ruined one yet image

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  • montanafanmontanafan Posts: 632
    yet
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>you guys are all nuts. I fog the damn things up with my breath and then wipe em down good with whatever shirt I am wearing. Have not ruined one yet image >>

    I agree. I do however make sure its 100% cotton so I dont scratch them up. I used my breath and the rag on two cards in my last sub and they both came back 10's image

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