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 Posted 05/12/2015  5:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Earle42 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow - a new batch of acetone for each coin? I am not an expert, but have done hundreds of halves in acetone. Using a glass baby food jar (also an antique glass furniture coaster) with enough acetone to cover about 4 or 5 halves at a time, all the "before-gunk" in the lettering etc. was gone on all of them. In fact when roll searching, cleaning a LOT of them in the same batch showed the same thing. In fact the used acetone went into another bottle to be re-used.

Maybe I need to rethink this?
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Yes, you should.

The stuff that was on the coin does not magically disappear. It is now dissolved into the acetone. As that acetone evaporates, the concentration of that gunk increases and at some point starts to redeposit on whatever remains, whether it is the bottom of the container or a coin.
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I'm Curious when you "dump" the acetone after doing a dip, where are you all dumping it?

Like Conder101 mentioned. Just dump it on a sidewalk and it will evaporate so fast you will wonder where it all went. Just don't lite a fire next to it. Small amounts just sort of vanish.
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Definite good advice. Now I DO cover the acetone while it is doing its job so evaporation is minimal, and I don't let it get low enough that I was able to detect residue, but new advice heeded form now on.

I used to clean literally hundreds of glass insulators in three gallons of concentrated HCL. One batch of acid was used for close to 1000 pieces cleaned. It would stillbe my cleaning batch, but I did not want to transport the acid when we moved. The soot on the glass settled to the bottom, but the HCL still made crystal clear glass - and it took about 10 seconds to do so. So I guess without thinking too much about it I was making a parallel with coins and acetone.

Another mistake I now see I made without thinking about it is that glass won't corrode like coins, so the situation is very different.
How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash?
Download and read: Grading the graders
Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves
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