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Drilling a slab ?

jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭
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I want to crack an old ASA slab to send in to PSA and I am thinking of drilling holes to create weak areas to break it open.

Any suggestions? And don't tell me it's trimmed image
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  • cwazzycwazzy Posts: 3,257 ✭
    It's recolored? image Just kidding. It may work but I would think it would be easier just to break off a corner and pry it apart with a screwdriver. Or if you have a Dremel just cut all the way around the case.

    Chris
    Chris
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  • billwaltonsbeardbillwaltonsbeard Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭✭
    Be a real man and just break it in half with your bare hands! That's what Johnny Bench would do.
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  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Be a real man and just break it in half with your bare hands! That's what Johnny Bench would do. >>



    I asked Bench if he could break it open with his bare hands and he said Yes!

    But he wanted $50 to do it
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  • cwazzycwazzy Posts: 3,257 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Be a real man and just break it in half with your bare hands! That's what Johnny Bench would do. >>



    I asked Bench if he could break it open with his bare hands and he said Yes!

    But he wanted $50 to do it >>



    But that's a $50 break from his website so it's really a bargain when you think about it.

    Chris
    Chris
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  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
    I busted a BCCG slab last night which I believe would be thicker than the entombment you currently have your trimmed recolored card in. Busting the corners of the slab with a pair of pliers is by far the easiest way. The BCCG slab popped right open after the corners were break.


    BTW, the Johnny Bench line is the funniest stuff I have seen on here in a while. That is almost as funny as ISTHTY.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Be a real man and just break it in half with your bare hands! That's what Johnny Bench would do. >>



    I asked Bench if he could break it open with his bare hands and he said Yes!

    But he wanted $50 to do it >>



    At least he didn't break it open...and then ask for $50
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  • fujfuj Posts: 559 ✭✭✭
    From what I recall about the ASA slabs, you should be able to just get a thin flat head screwdriver between the 2 halves and pry the slab open. I've only cracked one open and that was a couple of years ago.
  • markj111markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭
    Mail it to yourself and let the P.O. do it.
  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Mail it to yourself and let the P.O. do it. >>



    And us DC as the reciever might end up claiming he never got it
  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭
    Looked so much better in the slab..............

    image

    image
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  • PoppaJPoppaJ Posts: 2,818 ✭
    image
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    now burn it and see if you can catch a flamed rose pic like my bench sacrificeimage
    image

    barrys head might not burn though its so thickimage
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    What a garbage slab! There are no corner notches and it appears the card can just slide all over slab.

    That's a nice oc, dinged corner gem mint card there!

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  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    image
    is that the little kid in the jack nicholson movie in the hotel?i cant remeber the name of it right now, will in a minute after somebody says it
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    Danny's not here Mrs Torrence!

    :in my best finger puppet voice:

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  • DoubleD24DoubleD24 Posts: 56
    The shining.

    -Dan
    DD
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    darn you people with good memoriesimage i remember that finger and him talking to itimage
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>What a garbage slab! There are no corner notches and it appears the card can just slide all over slab.

    That's a nice oc, dinged corner gem mint card there! >>




    Even worst, the bottom corners of the inside case look rounded.
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    burn,burn,burnimage
  • HighChopperHighChopper Posts: 1,091
    redrum, redrum.
    There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in.
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