Tumbling clad coins Lemon Juice only 30-45 Minutes !

[SocalJim]

Apparently lots of folks are still using gravel and mixtures of dish soap,vinegar clr , and other mixes and running their tumblers for hours. Try the lemon juice alone ,enough to just cover your coins its available at the 99 cent stores. I read it on here some where and was very skeptical because I too ran my tumbler for hours. When I found enough beach coins to runa batch I gave it a try its amazing just the lemon juice alone I ran the clad then used the same juice for my pennies a few stubborn clad coins were still black(but plenty clean enough for spending or coin machines) but the majority were clean after 30 minutes . So who ever recommended it originally Thanks! it was inside another thread so I thought I'd pass along my results. Jim

P.S. I forgot the table salt I used Three tablespoons for about 4-5 ounces of lemon juice so thread should read Lemon juice and salt only
no I didn't take pics : )

 

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[CincinnatiKid]

Interesting.
I've "tumbled" alot of dug clad. Most of which, Coinstar rejected. I will surely try this.
Thanks
Peace

 

[T.C.]

I had just finished running two loads of clad in my tumblers, when I read your post. I used aquarium gravel and dish soap. I wasn't real impressed.
I loaded both barrels back up and put lemon juice and salt in the drums. Thirty-five minutes later I checked them and WOW!! Very impressive!! Great cleaner and very little clean up!! Thanks for the great tip SocalJim!!

Apparently lots of folks are still using gravel and mixtures of dish soap,vinegar clr , and other mixes and running their tumblers for hours. Try the lemon juice alone ,enough to just cover your coins its available at the 99 cent stores. I read it on here some where and was very skeptical because I too ran my tumbler for hours. When I found enough beach coins to runa batch I gave it a try its amazing just the lemon juice alone I ran the clad then used the same juice for my pennies a few stubborn clad coins were still black(but plenty clean enough for spending or coin machines) but the majority were clean after 30 minutes . So who ever recommended it originally Thanks! it was inside another thread so I thought I'd pass along my results. Jim

P.S. I forgot the table salt I used Three tablespoons for about 4-5 ounces of lemon juice so thread should read Lemon juice and salt only
no I didn't take pics : )

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

I had just finished running two loads of clad in my tumblers, when I read your post. I used aquarium gravel and dish soap. I wasn't real impressed.
I loaded both barrels back up and put lemon juice and salt in the drums. Thirty-five minutes later I checked them and WOW!! Very impressive!! Great cleaner and very little clean up!! Thanks for the great tip SocalJim!!

Ive done the gravel too....just more crap to clean up...Using something like this makes it much easier..I just use water and a little oil ..so my metal on the tumbler doesn't corrode

 

[Chizzy]

3 tablespoons of lemon juice and one teaspoon of salt in a small container works well on minor corroded steel pennies, too. Let them soak 10 to 15 minutes and clean with a stiff bristled nylon brush, rinse with water and dry with white terrycloth..........
Monitor the soaking coins, though........it could take off some of the remaining zinc coating originally used to reduce the corrosion.............

 

[weasel606]

Apparently lots of folks are still using gravel and mixtures of dish soap,vinegar clr , and other mixes and running their tumblers for hours. Try the lemon juice alone ,enough to just cover your coins its available at the 99 cent stores. I read it on here some where and was very skeptical because I too ran my tumbler for hours. When I found enough beach coins to runa batch I gave it a try its amazing just the lemon juice alone I ran the clad then used the same juice for my pennies a few stubborn clad coins were still black(but plenty clean enough for spending or coin machines) but the majority were clean after 30 minutes . So who ever recommended it originally Thanks! it was inside another thread so I thought I'd pass along my results. Jim

P.S. I forgot the table salt I used Three tablespoons for about 4-5 ounces of lemon juice so thread should read Lemon juice and salt only
no I didn't take pics : )

I'm going to give this a try tonight thanks

 

[Inches from Insanity]

I would love to give this mixture a try. What is the lemon juice / salt ratio?
Thanks
Inch

 

[Inches from Insanity]

......and if i would read i would know the answer to my question. Thanks!