Metals cleaning on youtube

[ACrisp1982]

Hey does anyone know of any videos that outline how to clean different metals using the different cleaning methods? I am currently using a very low voltage electrolysis and peroxide as my cleaning methods. I am mostly cleaning items found on the beach and I am not having much luck at getting them clean. Also if I do find, lets say an old coin, what is the best way to bring it back to silver or whatever other metal it may be after being in the ground or sand for quite a few years. I have found a few modern dimes and for some reason they are brown. I put them in peroxide and they're still brown. Any suggestions?

[lastleg]

I wouldn't spend two bits cleaning a clad dime. I prefer them
to look like what they are . . . unprecious metals.

[BuckleBoy]

Hey does anyone know of any videos that outline how to clean different metals using the different cleaning methods? I am currently using a very low voltage electrolysis and peroxide as my cleaning methods. I am mostly cleaning items found on the beach and I am not having much luck at getting them clean. Also if I do find, lets say an old coin, what is the best way to bring it back to silver or whatever other metal it may be after being in the ground or sand for quite a few years. I have found a few modern dimes and for some reason they are brown. I put them in peroxide and they're still brown. Any suggestions?

People on this forum who find a lot of clad (non-silver coins made in 1965 or later which have a "sandwich" look on the edges of them) seem to prefer using a rock tumbler to polish the coins before rolling them up and cashing them in. There are several posts about what you'd need to get set up right here in the cleaning and preservation section (maybe a few pages deep in the posts) but here's one link I found quite easily:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.p...,169382.0.html

If you decide to tumble your coins, don't mix the pennies in with the nickels, dimes, and quarters--do them separately or they will turn everything copper colored.

Any silver coins that you might find on the beach will be heavily oxidized, so check to see if you have any silver before tumbling.


Best Wishes,


Buckleboy