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dsalley13 Elite user 465 Posts |
Ok so I'm new to serious coin work. Take my opinions knowing that and consider where I'm coming from, which may be different from you and probably is.
I received my half-dollar Tango Pro flippers early this last week. For me this was a big investment. I can't imagine buying all the Tango coins I have now in Schoolcraft or Lassen editions. I'd need a 2nd mortgage on my home!! So, I open the package and there's my 2 new coins. I gently remove them from their individual packaging and I think I may have a problem.....they both look like regular ungaffed coins (the Pro Gravity flipper especially. In fact it was the one I was most concerned with. I couldn't open it and I couldn't see any cut lines anywhere on either side of it. I had to go for my reading glasses (you young magis will hit that wall soon enough). With my glasses on, I could just barely tell where the coin had been cut for the hinge. I really had to look for it. I still couldn't open it so I got out a medium sized neo-magnet and tried to release the flipping part of the coin. Luckily that worked great, it opened right up (there's a steel gaff that is washer-like and lines the flipping part of the coin). I also found out why it wouldn't open: There was a drop of grease on the interior rim of the outside shell part. I wiped that down with a cloth and the coin started flipping open like it is supposed to do. Smooth as silk and absolutely noiseless. When this coin is closed, I can't tell that it is a gaffed coin at all except for the almost totally imperceptible cut lines on the flipping side (tails, in my case). Sitting on a mat or even a bare table it shows no sign of being anything other than a single coin. The flipping part fits up inside the stationary part so well, that you can see no doubling in the edge of the coin at all. It looks just like any other modern clad-coin sandwich of metals. Be careful with this one. It would be so easy to spend it for it's face value and lose a $65.00 retail gaffed coin! I am beyond being happy with this purchase. I will get the most use out of the Pro-Gravity Flipper. I got the regular Pro-Flipper for different reasons. All it will be used for is tossing into a spec's. hand or into a glass, so that it can instantly turn into one coin from two, then ditched/switched as soon as possible. The Pro-Gravity flipper is a whole 'nother kind of coin for me. It will be used in several of the routines I'm trying to learn. I could not be more satisfied. Mr. Tango has been wonderful too,in guiding my purchases with great and appreciated advice. His company makes quality products and they fit me and my budget perfectly. Maybe someday I'll try one of the high-end coin-makers wares, but for right now, Tango Magic Coins are the mainstay of my gaffed coin collection. All of them are of quality that I don't even deserve yet. I honestly rate them all (the ones I have) at a 10 out of 10 points for quality and ease of use. I'll be buying more Tango coins and I hope some of you, like me, that are just beginning to learn coin magic, will do the same by giving Tango a try. They make great things! dsalley13 |
jaylynch68 New user Orlando, Florida 57 Posts |
Great review. I'm looking at purchasing the pro gravity flipper. What is the difference between the two pro flippers?
Thanks. Jay68 |
narcoleptic_insomniac Regular user Kenosha, WI 140 Posts |
There are only two things that I am not happy about with my Tango Pro-Gravity Flipper: (1) The "real edge" hardly looks true, and (2) there are several sharp internal edges which cause the internal mechanism to break more quickly... other than that, I'm satisfied (but I still want to upgrade to Schoolcraft one day ^_^)
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Mr. Tango Elite user Argentina 465 Posts |
Dear Jay,
The difference is that Gravity system, opens itself and the flip system is like traditional way where you can open the flipper coin. |
Koolmagic114 Veteran user 319 Posts |
I must say also myself. That I am mostly a Johnson Coin guy. As a part time dealer myself. I got a Tango Pro gravity coin for myself to check it out.
And I am quite impressed with the coin. It looks good, and it does JUST what it is supposed to do. Works perfectly! As a part time dealer, I myself am 100% comfortable with recommending this coin to my customers. Having other Tango items and not being completely satisfied with some of the quality in some of the products. They do make this item VERY well and some others as well. I give Tango a tip of the hat with this coin. Good work. Eddy
Eddy
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Doc Magic Regular user Pasadena, CA 151 Posts |
Highly recommend Schoolcraft flipper. You'll never go back to any other brand once you've tried this, trust me! Worth every penny.
"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."- Aldous Huxley
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polygonsmagic Veteran user 372 Posts |
Mr. Tango, I'd like to know what design has been used in your G-flipper. Lassen's is an angled groove that he engineered. Schoolcraft's was an L-shpaed groove orginally, and I thing it still is, only he started using that metal insert piece. How does your differ from these? Thanks.
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