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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Rest in Peace
United States
2668 Posts |
Ewww! Consider me gobsmacked.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
819 Posts |
Wow turn your collection into trash in as little 20 min.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
18456 Posts |
Perfect ! I'll take a dozen kits .  |
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Pillar of the Community
Lebanon
505 Posts |
Read the discription ,you should boil the coins:p
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1026 Posts |
Why waste my money on that when the belt sander in my garage will do just fine. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
Cleaning is almost always essential for coins that have been recovered from direct soil contact ground burial.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
8938 Posts |
My favorite coin cleaner is 7.62x51. Strips all the dirt off the coin. Actually, it just gets rid of the coin. Problem solved!
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5239 Posts |
@sel, despite my shock to see this for sale, especially the brass wire brush, the results, if you can believe them, do not look that bad. So I am wondering what is really in this kit. After all, TPG do conserve coins, and I am sure that they use liquids of some sort that might well have started off as powders. I am certain that they don't use tooth brushes or wire brushes. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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the results, if you can believe them, do not look that bad. I had the same thought. As for brushes, toothbrushes are usually nylon, which cannot scratch metal in and of itself. Wire brushes? Yeah ... let's not go there. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1081 Posts |
There should be a law....
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
Perhaps not wire brushes, but old toothbrushes 'n water are often used to clean coins recovered from ground burial.
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Moderator
 United States
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There should be a law.... Be careful what you wish for...  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Just a dip in Aqua Regia is all I need.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I agree, why don't you go take a dip.  Quote:
As for brushes, toothbrushes are usually nylon, which cannot scratch metal in and of itself. But if there is dirt or grit there the toothbrush can drag it around and it can cause scratches. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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the "salts" they show look a lot like copper salts. guessing that after turning everything as bright as the sun with the brass brush that they help re-patina? Quote:
the results, if you can believe them, do not look that bad. add me to that list as well.  hmmm.... add blue food coloring to some salt (3 cents), combine with a dollar store brush, sell for $28... net $26.97... this guy is on to something |
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Posted 02/03/2020 2:31 pm
