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Valued Member
United States
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I got some Ike dollars in today that I had bought and they were sent in vinyl flips. So having learned on here that those things are probably not safe for long term storage, I transfered them to mylar coin flips. While stapling them together I noticed that the stapler I was using did not seem to be doing a very good job in folding over the staples and my gloves kept getting snagged on them. My question is do any of you use something special to staple your flips. Special staples or stapler. Now, some time ago (as in years) some of my 'duplicates and extras' I experimented a bit with and I put them in mylar coin flips, then ran a small bead of hot glue around the edge and once that set, stapled a few places around the edge. I dont know if there are any adverse things in hot glue that would react with the coins (I did not know, then, that PVC was harmful either) but so far they have held up and I see no deterioration in the coins. I did it in an attempt to get some air tight functionality out of the flips more or less. I havent been hot glued anything recently simply because I dont know if there is anything in it to be concerned with. I am stapling the flips though and am curious as to what other members here are doing and what the thoughts were on hot gluing the flips. |
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 United States
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I use some smooth pliers (that is, they do not have teeth like normal pliers) to press them flat. They make staplers that do this automatically, but I have used these pliers forever.
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Valued Member
United States
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After I staple the flip I use pliers to flatten the ends of the staple. I've never heard of hot glueing then. Maybe others have.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For sure flatten your staples. If you store your flips upright in a box, you risk damaging a coin as you pull another one from the box and that staple rakes across the surface.
There are flat staplers. I do like jbuck and flatten with a pair of pliers. The coin shop I visit has a tool where someone welded flat pieces of metal to the jaws of a pair of pliers so it quickly crimps the entire staple flat. I'd love to have one of those.
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 United States
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Excellent. I have some small pliers that are smooth on the jaws that I used when I worked pretty heavily in electronics that should do the trick then.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Canada
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Edited by mcshilling
05/12/2011 7:03 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AKA flat clinch stapler, totally worth the $10 investment, if you are like me too lazy to flatten the staples of the regular staples.
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Valued Member
United States
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Well if they are no more money than that, I will head to my local Staples (one of the few things besides Walmart we have in this town) and see what they have. I wish we had a coin shop around here. |
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United States
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I was using a small pair of needle nose pliers to flatten the staples. While browsing Staple's one day, I found a flat-cinch stapler that was inexspensive. I won't go back to pliers.
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United States
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I started out using pliers as well. Switched to a flat clinch a few months ago and love it.
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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Big bull nose pliers and a swingline stapler that works like an exercising grip. Works 99.9 % of the time perfectly without a bad staple job. Regular desk staplers, no matter how good they are, no matter what the name brand fail much more often.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I always use copper plated staples rather than plain steel ones.
I have even seen a gold coin suffer corrosion, albeit suffering many years of being buried in a steel tin, which rusted. That was enough reason for me to use copper plated staples. Besides, when steel staples corrode, they leave unsightly rust staining around them.
Gold under certain circumstances can corrode. The particular coin I am referring to is a 22 ct. gold Sydney Mint half sovereign of 1859. The coin was in otherwise EF condition.
Gold can form complex double salts, in association with other metals, e.g. telluride, which is a complex gold / tellurium gold double salt, known as calaverite. It is an important source of mined gold ore, in the Western Australian Kalgoorlie region.
I suspect that the corrosion on the aforementioned half sovereign must have been a complex double salt of gold and iron, with the corrosion proceeding in an acid environment.
Edited by sel_69l
05/13/2011 02:38 am
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United States
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Wow, copper plated staples. I dont think I have ever seen and I know I have never heard of those before. It would have never occurred to me either to even think about the staple itself being a potential source of issues.
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Posted 05/12/2011 6:06 pm
