Lime Away for cleaning buffalos and v nickels

funkman

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I know I saw a post that someone used Lime Away to get rid of the red of buffalo and V nickels. Can anyone help me find this post or know who it was that did it? The reason I ask is that I have a couple of buffalo nickels that are of no value...not much anyway...and they are theat dark brown/red color. If I remember the post correctly the Lime Away brought back the silver color.

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I tried Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce on a REALLY bad V-Nickel. . . it worked!

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funkman

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thats cool Watercolor! You never know what kind of things we can come up with to accomplish our tasks in this great hobby! How did you ever come up with that one? I never heard of it.

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funkman said:
thats cool Watercolor! You never know what kind of things we can come up with to accomplish our tasks in this great hobby! How did you ever come up with that one? I never heard of it.

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Funkman

A new MD hunting friend I met last week mentioned this cleaning technique. . . he got it from one of his friends :D

It seems to work. . . Take care & HH!
 

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Try the Lime Away on 2 buffalo's and 2 V nickels....all 4 coins were dark and the dates were really hard to read..the buffalo's sat in the lime away over-night and the V nickels were in in for 2 days...
 

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OK now ya got my interest up. I may have to try this lime-away thing.

Wish me luck! I'll post the results in this thread.


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Nick Pappagiorgio said:
BuckleBoy said:
OK now ya got my interest up. I may have to try this lime-away thing.

Wish me luck! I'll post the results in this thread.


-Buckleboy

Buckles...Just be careful not to get that lime-away to close to you know where...It plays hell on batons... :wink: :D LOL

Good Luck,

Nick

Don't worry. I'll keep it the heck away from my $100 Mollard Batons :D
 

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Thank you, that's good to know about lime-away, nickels always seem to be the hardest to clean.
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I tried it with a buffalo nickel...and one side turned out the appropriate color--but the other side was the color of Cotton Candy!

An irridescent PINK buffalo on the back of it. :-\


Hey you lime-away dudes--did I do something wrong?



-Buckles
 

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