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Sticky, Oily, Goo'y Stuff On Pennies In Rolls

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 Posted 03/11/2008  5:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add thingee to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Vaslin, I'm curious, why do you prefer olive oil over mineral oil? How do the results differ from the other?
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 Posted 03/11/2008  11:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add robert18 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I read somewhere that ketchup works good for cleaning grime off of pennies anyone ever try this or recommend this?
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 Posted 03/12/2008  08:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No! No ketchup! It contains acetic acid(vinegar) and will turn you cents a horrid pink
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 Posted 03/12/2008  11:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Regardless of what substance you use to attempt to clean anything off a coin, remember this. If the product your going to use is made with a manufacturing process, such as Olive Oil, all manufacturers have different methods and may/may not add other substances to their processes. This means that what may work for some may ruin your coins. The reason is not all items manufactured are the same. Proprietary information is so that a process or finished process may not be immitated.
Putting any oil on a coin to remove another oil is rather on the not to smart side. Putting any substance that contains any acetic properites such as Vinegar, 4% Acetic Acid, is also on the not to smart side of things to do in your spare time. Listening to people that attempted to use wierd things to clean coins, tomato juice, is also on the not to smart side.
If there is not a complete discription of the contents of any substance on the container that holds it, consider yourself just gussing at the results. By complete I mean the exact proportions of all substances within that compound.
A great example is Finger Nail Polish Remover. READ THE LABLE. Many ingrediants are listed but no proportions.
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 Posted 03/12/2008  11:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here is one more thought. Why not just return the rolls from where you got them and ask what that stuff is?
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 Posted 03/12/2008  1:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add eaglefoot to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
PEOPLE SHOULD NOT EAT ICE CREAM WHILE ROLLING PENNIES !~!
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03/12/2008 1:04 pm
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 Posted 03/12/2008  5:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gbchaosmaster to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If it's PVC, use acetone. If it's dirt and grease, use xylene. Whatever you do, though, don't soak the coin in vodka.
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