Best ways to protect slabs?

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Posted By: Dave F

I was looking around on eBay for some sleeves for the slabs, then got to thinking that with the sleeves the cards may not even fit in the boxes made for the slabbed cards? So now what?

Also has anybody tried any of that cleaning solution for slabs off eBay or the likes?

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Do not clean nor otherwise alter your slab. You will destroy its value. It is best to slab it just the way it is to protect it from further harm and to document its actual condition.

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Posted By: Ed

I just received slabs with nice mylar sleeves. An amateurs advice: Cool, dry place for storage

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Posted By: Steve f

Ultra Pro has graded card sleeves that are good size for all graders. The UP team bags are more snug and a better fit for PSA cards.

Never immerse slabs in water, they're made like an Italian submarine.

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Posted By: joe brennan

Ultra Pro has graded card sleeves that are good size for all graders. The UP team bags are more snug and a better fit for PSA cards.

Exactly the way I store all my slabs. Keeps them from getting scratched.

In Rememberance of James W. Brennan Sr. 1924-1982. Dad, thanks for everything you did for me.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I agree with Gilbert.

What ever you do, don't soak a slab. Some slab collectors think that soaking to remove paste, tobacco pieces, or dirt is altering...

Maybe the most certain thing to do would be to donate any slabs you have to a museum, with them agreeing that the slabs are on permanent loan, that the museum can't transfer, sell, or alter the slabs, in which event the slabs would revert to being owned by you or your descendants. That way there's no chance that Gilbert or I would ever acquire the slabs... 'cause we'd crack 'em open like an oyster.

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Posted By: Darren

Send your "slabbed" or graded cards into the Associate Slab Service to get the slab graded & encased thus protecting it.

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Posted By: Dave F

The scratches, yes I agree once they are there nothing you can do about it. But as far as a dirty...smudged slab...would a couple squirts of Windex not do the trick?

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Posted By: Jason L

first time I have laughed out loud in quite some time (I usually snort internally, which causes hiccups and sinus headaches)...really love your grading service name acronym...
really good stuff
a sincere thank you for that post
Jason L

edited to say: and just the concept of slabbing a slab...for some reason, is extremely funny to me right now...I mean, how thick would these things get?!?!? Ha!

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Posted By: Joe Pelaez

Resubmit the slab.
Resubmit it until you get the right slab grade.
If that doesn't work?
Crack the slab.
Forget about the card, that's not important, and it's only secondary to the slab.
When you send the card back in, do not tell them that it had been slabbed before.
If you get the right slab grade, the next step is very important.

Register the slab grade.

Population reports of Slab Grades, will be the next hottest thing in da MARKet.

Don't be left out.
Be the first rich kid on your block to have the new high tech T206 tobacco binders.
Muscle men, to carry your New T206 binders to a show, can be rented out cheap at $100.00 dollars an hour each.

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Posted By: Scott T

Being the uber-nerd I am, I place all my slabs in graded card storage bags and then place them in whatever wooden storage box I use.

Graded cards in bags fit well inside the MJ Roop boxes.

Graded cards in bags also work in Pennzoni boxes, but I have had to remove two of the dividers. (I just keep the middle one.)

As far as bags, go...

http://www.bcwsupplies.com/prod-RGCS.htm

NOTE: I am on Darvocet right now. Hopefully this make sense to everyone.

Scott

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Posted By: Dave

my girlfriend makes protective sleeves on a sewing machine out of a soft hemp fabric....they end up looking similar to the ones that PSA used to give new members. they really keep the plastic from getting scratched.

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Posted By: andy becker

davet206, that's cool!
and, if you ever decide to free the cards from their plastic tombs, you can smoke the slab holders!

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Posted By: fessgreg

is someone saying you can't use a plastic scratch remover like macguire's on slabs. i just bought some for my slabbed rare coins. signed greg

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Posted By: Brad

Does anyone know if Ultra Pro or any other Company makes pages that fit SGC cases?

Ultra Pro(3-1/2" x 5-1/2") just to small for the SGC case(link below).

http://cgi.ebay.com/100-POSTCARD-PAGES-Ultra-Pro-4-Pocket_W0QQitemZ170095958103QQcategoryZ127QQssPage NameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Posted By: Ed

what happens if the sleeve to a slab gets smudged? can the card drop 2 points?