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 Posted 12/22/2011  12:22 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add coinman09 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello all,

The business I work for deals with a lot of coins from fountains and other various places that are corroded together or stuck together with gum and grease. I have a cement mixer that I've been filling with sand but that is not cutting it. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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 Posted 12/22/2011  1:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

If you check with the tab at the top for SEARCH, you may find numerous stories about cleaning coins, coin cleaning, Acetone, etc. For you problem I'd sart with dipping in Acetone. If that fails, try Laquer Thinner, Mineral Spirts, Tomato Juice, Lemon or Lime Juices too. Like I said if you check here you would also find how many swear by Olive Oils, battery acids, baking soday and wate and on and on and on.
Way back when I was a kid my Dad had a gas station where they also did tires for trucks. One trick they used to use to free those tires from the rims after being on the road a long time was Coke. Yes a bottle of Coke. Try it. From what you disctibe for those coins you have little to loose.
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Welcome to CC!

Just toss them into your mixer with water and laundry detergent. That should work good enough.
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 Posted 12/22/2011  2:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coinman09 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I've tried the water and soap/bleach but that wouldn't do it either. I can get the coins clean but the problem is that the coins are still stuck together. I don't particularly need them to be super clean, just not stuck together.
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because these coins were cemented togetheer in the presence of water, water based solvents aren't going to do a good job of uncementing them.

are you sure it's just gum and grease? If so I suspect tumbling them in a diesel bath will take care of that.

I wouldn't be suprised if you also had some of the coins cemented together with calcium carbonate. This is one of the main components of hard water.

If after the diesel they're still stuck together you might try an acid bath. Swimming pool supply stores sell muratic acid in 5 gallon buckets. Muratic works wonders on calcium. However after an acid bath be sure to rinse them in water as acid will dissolve most coinage.

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Mechanics use brake fluid to loosen impossible crud. I would try a rock tumbler and perhaps cat litter to absorb the brake fluid.
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