Posted 2024-August-03, 22:34
Yes, please keep it clean. I'm not as paranoid as some in the Ajijic club, who expected that we would clean the rollers and camera every day, but I spent about 90 minutes over the course of one sectional weekend cleaning rollers on a different dealing machine. And it helped, but it was horrid. Once a week, or every 10 sets or so, makes a nice compromise.
Be prepared to replace decks of cards about twice as often as you were, as they fade a bit and get harder for the dealing machine to read them. If you have boards that are hand-shuffled in play, you can migrate the dead decks to those (and avoid hand-shuffling the dealer cards, that wears them out faster yet!)
(and remember, unless your club is partial to cake at the table, almost all of that crud on the rollers - and being pushed back on the cards - is dead human skin. Deal with that as you will.)
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