| Author |
 Replies: 14 / Views: 5,776 |
|
|
Valued Member
United States
327 Posts |
Even in my older danscos, dust does occasionally find its way onto the surface of the coins. Even under the plastic covers. I have not tried compressed air. I'm afraid that in 10 years spots, blemishes, etc will appear and then everyone will know what it can do to coins. I also have a small little hand dust blower. but it can take time and doesn't always lift everything away. So...has anyone been using this for a long time?
|
|
|
|
Moderator
 United States
16679 Posts |
Don't use it. Shake it and spray it on your hand. Moisture hits your hand. These are chemicals that cannot be good for coins!
swcoin.ecrater.com
|
|
Valued Member
United States
335 Posts |
This is not coin-related, but it's funny, so I'll share. I thought it would be a good idea to use some of that air in a can to clean the crumbs from my waffle iron. It turns out that there are some ingredients designed to make it bitter (so teenagers won't misuse it). Anyway, we were enjoying the waffles I'd made until we got this horrible aftertaste.
So waffle irons are something else not to clean with that stuff.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
603 Posts |
Hopefully it is bitter to cats as well, mine likes to chew on my desk lamp cord, just emptied my can on hte cord after reading about the waffle iron
|
|
Moderator
United States
56855 Posts |
Canned air contains moisture so don't use it. Someone here on CCF recommended one of those rubber squeeze ball kinda things that photographers use to dust off there camera lens.
John1 
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
11951 Posts |
I use a small vacuum to suck the dust off.
When I start a new Dansco, I vacuum at it, put in the back slides and vacuum it again.
And anytime during the process of putting the coins in, and see dust I vacuum more.
There seems to be a lot of dust in the Dansco albums, I believe from them cutting the holes in the pages.
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Quote:
I use a small vacuum to suck the dust off.
When I start a new Dansco, I vacuum at it, put in the back slides and vacuum it again.
And anytime during the process of putting the coins in, and see dust I vacuum more.
There seems to be a lot of dust in the Dansco albums, I believe from them cutting the holes in the pages.
The problem there is some of the coins may get sucked up into the vacuum machine unless you do it before placing the coins.  During the process of making Albums, the cardboard for the slots is made completely separately from the backing page sheets so that is unlikely the source of the dust. Might well be from where they were stored. Regardless, if you place each Album in a gallon sized Zip Lock Plastic Bag, push out as much air as possible, bend over the excess material, not much chance any dust or moisture will get to your coins. |
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
19947 Posts |
I'm going against the grain here. I use canned air ALL the time for coins, airtites and 2x2's. As long as you hold it properly as to not discharge the propellant, it is safe. I'm willing to bet it is less humid than room air.
|
|
Valued Member
United States
335 Posts |
I still think it will make your coins taste bad.
|
|
Moderator
United States
188213 Posts |
I have to agree with BadThad. I use this stuff on electronics all the time, and in my opinion they are less forgiving than coins when it comes to moisture and reactive materials. This is just my experience. I reserve the right to be wrong.  |
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
19947 Posts |
Quote:
I have to agree with BadThad. I use this stuff on electronics all the time, and in my opinion they are less forgiving than coins when it comes to moisture and reactive materials. This is just my experience. I reserve the right to be wrong. Indeed! I'm sure the specifications for use with eletronics is pretty high. Afterall, that's how canned air really came to be. Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
I too have to agree with Thad. A friend of mine does camera repairs and as you know, most cameras today are mostly electronic. Some really sensitive components. He too uses can air all the time on those and some of the cameras he works on are in the thousands of dollars.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
2120 Posts |
I use Canned air also. A few things I make sure of is I keep about 6 inches away from the coin when using the canned air. That way its not spraying condensed moisture directly onto the coin. I Don't spray directly at it, I do an angled, sweeping kind of motion. When I blow out Air-tites I lay them opening down on a thick (well washed) cotton cloth to allow any moisture to evaporate with out leaving them open to additional contaminants in the air. I ALWAYS make the first spray of air away from everything, just in case the can was turned upside down and some propellant has made its way into the chamber. This way I wont accidentally spray some liquid all over my new purchase. As a side note, don't TPG's use compressed air prior to slabbing coins? Edited by Namachieli
07/01/2010 12:17 pm
|
|
Valued Member
United States
450 Posts |
Oh and also dont use when you have been drinking and thinking it would be really cool to turn the can upside down and use it as a flamethrower to kill the bugs on the other side of the screen window ,aluminum has a very low melting point and just take my word for it  |
|
Valued Member
 United States
327 Posts |
Goldrush, that is a good idea. Vacuuming the dansco before the coins go in would be a good way to help prevent lint form resing on the coins once the plastic covers go in. I just bought one of those little hand held air blowers. Here are a couple. Ironically they also sell the canned air but I think I would go with the blower first: http://www.coinsupplyexpress.com/dust-blowers.aspx |
| |
Replies: 14 / Views: 5,776 |
|
Posted 06/28/2010 10:12 pm
