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Pillar of the Community
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Very good info. Thanks for sharing!
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Bedrock of the Community
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@Mark
I have done the same, but since I use a baby food jar to soak them in (b/c it can be capped and holds a small volume), I can reach in with tongs and get the coin. Hence I use the acetone for more than one soak normally.
@Lionel
No, the Kointongs are not affected by the acetone, and I rubbed the reptile tongs with acetone for quite a bit to see if the plastic would deteriorate/react with them - it did not. Acetone will react with plastics it can dissolve rather quickly.
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09/24/2018 6:43 pm
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can reach in with tongs and get the coin. Hence I use the acetone for more than one soak normally. OH, never thouth of that - DUH, how stupid I am but I have a small funnel and pour the acetone back into the can. I guess I'm like that Mexican wrestler "El Stupido"  |
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Rest in Peace
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I would assume both are made from polypropylene which is not affected by acetone or any other conserving solvent. I have a pair that are similar to the Kointong that a friend built the tooling for and molded several pair as gifts back in the late '90's. I'm pretty sure they're made from talc filled polpro if I remember correctly. Anyways, the living hinge is still as it was back on day one after many dunks in acetone and others. Here's an image I posted back in 2012.  |
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Rest in Peace
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I like to use these tongs when dipping my MS-67 Mercury dimes .  All kidding aside I have never used tongs ,but I do use Japanese chop sticks ( wooden ) with a rubber band and piece of cardboard tightly wrapped around one end .Then simply use them like a regular pair of chop sticks . They constantly hold the coin by the edges until you release one finger .No harm to coin or sticks . I will never use anything else .  |
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Pillar of the Community
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chopsticks. interesting idea I had not thought of.
I have been looking for some tongs recently so great thread Earle.
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Bedrock of the Community
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some good ideas. However, after over 60 years of coin collecting, never found a need for those.
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Rest in Peace
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Carl , I have to ask you, how do you remove a coin from a jar of acetone ?  |
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I understand all your points. From where I sit, never ever. No way. Just the sight of those things scare me. I do the same thing with a baby food jar. I use cheap rubber latex gloves for dipping and acetone and cotton gloves for inserting coins into albums.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I am glad this was useful for some. Hopefully it can save some fellow collectors some money to spend on coins!
@Dave - Very nice set of tongs. Part of the reason I wanted something other than my Kointongs was so I could have something longer. Looks to me like yours would be great for this also.
@USSID
Makes sense to me what you do. To each his own I guess. I would have problems though trying fit my fingers into the jar to the the coin out.
Another route I had recently gone was to get a set of stainless, normally-closed tweezers. I plastic dipped the ends with the plastic dip used to make handles on hand tools. Unfortunately the plastic reacted with acetone.
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I use a shot glass for dipping coins in acetone. It's easy to get the coin out. I have a pair of metal tweezers with electrical heat shrink tubing on he ends for this task. Most times I can use the tweezers to move the coin up the side and the coin lays over on the tweezers. No need to actually grab the coin. I also pour the acetone back into another jar incase I want to use it agsin for my circulated coins. My best coins get new acetone. My Roll finds get recycled acetone. Coins with PVC residue -acetone is discarded.
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Pillar of the Community
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Earl42
I like the baby food jars with lid idea.
But anything removed from one coin will remain in the acetone "solution".
So the only thing I can think to add would be to add a final rinse in new/clean acetone to make sure nothing is transferred from one soaked coin to another by reusing the acetone. Then add this small amount of "final rinse" to the soaking jar.
Good ideas all the way around. Thanks.
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Bedrock of the Community
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@Lionel {quote]I have a pair of metal tweezers with electrical heat shrink tubing on he ends for this task.[/quote] I am glad you mentioned this - just yesterday afternoon I was wondering if heat shrink applied to the metal ones I mentioned before would react with acetone or not. @Petespockets: First, I see you are fairly new so  I totally agree with you that anything from one coin will remain in the acetone. I did not go into details, but I do what Lionel said he does - the best are given fresh acetone. However, for the volume of acetone I am putting into the baby food jar, and the microscopic amount of whatever the acetone removes, I generally use the same acetone for awhile or until I dip a really bad coin. For the last 5-6 years I have had no adverse affects I have noticed when re-inspecting the 2X2s, and I have done a lot of coins. |
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I don't like fingerprints on my coins (especially when they are mine) so I do a quick dip for all my shiny pennies and nicer nickels that I get out of rolls. I don't bother with brown pennies and well circulated nickels. My wife says she's going to run them through the coinstar machine when I'm gone anyway so why clean them now. The next collector can clean them. But when I find something nice I give it a good soak and inspection.
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Rest in Peace
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A good practice if you don't mind going through a lot of acetone .  |
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