holepuncher
Sr. Member
What is the best way to clean clad so you don't get to much guff when you want to spend it?
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Just leave in pockets when doing laundry; multitask!
I use a cheapo tumbler, Dawn dish soap and water, tumble for a hour or so and call it good, takes dirt off but still dark from tarnish.
Im going to try the lemon juice and salt trick next time though
Toecutter, I will also add that I will tumble about 100 dimes in the barrel, and about 50 quarters in another. Of course the clad quarters and dimes can be tumbled together, but I don't exceed 100, they need room to move. I use just enough lemon juice to cover the coins, two teaspoons of salt, and of course the rock stuff. For me about two hours works really well. I picked this up right here on treasure net, I used other stuff before, but they still came out brown, clean, but brown. Now?, clean but with shine. I DO NOT do the same with penny's, it would seem as though I was making a bomb or something, the mix of lemon juice, salt, copper with a little zinc, well, the barrel swelled up like a large softball ready to explode, caught it in time, took it outside, and when I loosened the top? I looked like some kind of cartoon going on. Don't do that.