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I need some advice from those of you who have dealt with this issue, and I'm sure many have. In a small collection I purchased last year there were some 1994 Pinnacle cards. They were stuck together in "bricks" of anywhere from 15 to 50 cards. Not stuck with glue or anything, just something about the surface of the cards. I carefully flex the brick back and forth....it makes a crackling sound and the large bricks break into several smaller bricks, but not into individual cards. I can peel a card off, one by one, but that damages the surface of one, or both cards. Is there a way to get these cards to seperate without ruining them? Also, is there a way to get them not to stick back together in storage?

Nope not really, been there and done that. If for your PC then keep/throw. If your going to trade you had better state they were in a brick. I kept all mine and have them in a box labelled bricked. They are good enough to fill a collectors hole if need be otherwise its a doorstop. I just cant throw cards away unless they are super nuked. 

Some people have tried putting them in the freezer, others the microwave. Some seems to have a little success but I would say most of the time these cards will have some surface issues from the bricking.

Maybe test a heat gun or hair dryer on a few?

Throw the brick of cards against a soild wall and see what happens. They could come apart. 

Someone once suggested baby powder/talc but I haven't tried it yet, not sure how that's supposed to get in between bricked cards to help but i will soon need to give it a shot any ways as i have quite the pile of bricks accumulating 

I heard too putting them in the freezer. I heard 15 to 30 minutes. 
I never tried it

as for your 2nd question. To keep it from happening again need to put each card in a penny sleeve and then every couple of years need to pull each one out just so it doesn't stick inside of the sleeve. This also goes for all chrome or high gloss cards

Thank you for the tip.  I will keep this in mind.

I tried the freezer method on some 1995 Stadium Club cards after reading about it here. Definitely better than just peeling them apart but about a 50% success rate overall.  Not sure if it's worth the trouble.

My freezer results are at the bottom of page 1.  I left them in for 110 days.

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