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Comical Coin Cleaning Exercise!
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<blockquote data-quote="Rattail-1927" data-source="post: 430094" data-attributes="member: 12966"><p>Ok so 4 weeks ago I decided to buy a metal detector, I bought a X-terra 705 and hit the beach .</p><p>I got 10 or $12 dollars in gold and silver coins, only thing is most of them are stained black.... so I get online looking for some way to clean them. </p><p>I tried vinegar, salt , baking soda and worked my way to caustic soda .... I might as well used water lol , so I get on line and see electrolysis.. the answer .... so I thought... I made a bath and tried it out, some sites say the negative for the coins and some say positive.</p><p>I thought Ill try both... I let them go for about half an hour only to find the clamp had dissolved lol , no big deal I put another one on and left it again, only this time my black $2 coin was bright pinky copper colour ..... it must of worked to good so I put a twenty cent piece in and half an hour later it was clean but where the clamp was it was stained a copper colour which u guessed it.. wont come off .... </p><p>SO I could use any idea for cleaning them as long as they dont come out pinky / copper colour!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rattail-1927, post: 430094, member: 12966"] Ok so 4 weeks ago I decided to buy a metal detector, I bought a X-terra 705 and hit the beach . I got 10 or $12 dollars in gold and silver coins, only thing is most of them are stained black.... so I get online looking for some way to clean them. I tried vinegar, salt , baking soda and worked my way to caustic soda .... I might as well used water lol , so I get on line and see electrolysis.. the answer .... so I thought... I made a bath and tried it out, some sites say the negative for the coins and some say positive. I thought Ill try both... I let them go for about half an hour only to find the clamp had dissolved lol , no big deal I put another one on and left it again, only this time my black $2 coin was bright pinky copper colour ..... it must of worked to good so I put a twenty cent piece in and half an hour later it was clean but where the clamp was it was stained a copper colour which u guessed it.. wont come off .... SO I could use any idea for cleaning them as long as they dont come out pinky / copper colour!! [/QUOTE]
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