Help How Do you Flatten Curvy Holos?
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How bad are they? Just putting them under a heavy book or something similar should do it. It might take some time though to do that many.
I have some books with 200+ pages, they're hard back and pretty big, so would that work?
Probably, just put something heavy on top.
My entire binder of Ultra Rares got warped in the summer. Due to a lack of Air Conditioning, all of them were curved. What I did was placed them in the coolest room in the house, flipped the binder upside-down and stuck another binder on top of it. Within a few days they were all back to normal.
How I managed to revive a bunch of warped holos was sticking them in a box alternating how they were facing* (fronts to fronts, backs to back) then added cards I didn't care for on either side of the holos until everything was packed in well. Then you just leave it like that for a while.
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Except that not many places in the UK have AC, so usually the coolest room in the bathroom and that's also damp, causing potentially more issues.
The dreaded Curved Foils affects us all.
The best way I've found to avoid it is to put them in the typical 9-slot binder pages back to back. So a single slot on the page will have two holos in it (allowing you to see the rear holo's face on the backside of the page). They kind of resist each other. Very few of my holos stored in this way have ever curved.
The way I use to fix an already-curved card is sticking them into soft sleeves and tightly packing them into a row in a box using foam dividers to keep them snug against each other. I've straightened quite a few holos and reverse foils this way, but it takes some time.
The best way I've found to avoid it is to put them in the typical 9-slot binder pages back to back. So a single slot on the page will have two holos in it (allowing you to see the rear holo's face on the backside of the page). They kind of resist each other. Very few of my holos stored in this way have ever curved.
The way I use to fix an already-curved card is sticking them into soft sleeves and tightly packing them into a row in a box using foam dividers to keep them snug against each other. I've straightened quite a few holos and reverse foils this way, but it takes some time.
What you're looking for is a 2" binder and some 9-pocket card pages to go with it. The 9-pocket pages can be found at most game/hobby shops, or at your local big-box store that sells TCG's (like a Wal-Mart).
Wal-Marts here only sell clothes, video games and food mostly; there aren't really any hobby shops here; GAME doesn't sell them either.
Perhaps try Amazon.
not a single one. why ? Because its only a binder. you need to buy this to use the binder
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trading-Ca...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=N85PC9M18SWE6WMF7X9F
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trading-Ca...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=N85PC9M18SWE6WMF7X9F
I un-warped mine without the AC. Just find the most cool/dry place you can get, the sleeves would help too(I recommend double sleeving them, with perfect fits followed by some decent brand of sleeves, that usually helps them stay somewhat straight)