Does cleaning them with "Sno-Bol" or "Lime-Away" cause the coins to turn Pink also Is there some way to turn them back to silver again? Hope this helps someone else. My cheeks are now pink with embarrassments. Beach Papa
I've never had them turn pink unless some copper was in the mix somehow. Maybe a quarter or the like had a copper edge exposed. Sno Bol pretty much turns them whitish silver so It may clean them up again. I just get the crud off them and don't mind what they look like! I pump them into coin stars, beach meters, and gave a few pinkish red ones that I mixed with pennies in the beginning before I knew better, to the Haitians that work at Walgreens and the look on their face was priceless as they asked what kinda money is that? I responded its U.S. Currency and legally you have to accept it! Was very comical!Okay, I tried the salt and vinegar cleaning. I actually had fewer quarters needing cleaning than I thought. When I dumped them out of the bag a lot of green sand came out as well, so I guess the process of drying out turned some of the corrosion loose from the coins. I separated the clean coins from those that needed cleaning and put the dirty coins in a glass bowl. I added the vinegar and rock salt (I used rock salt because I had some on hand), and I watched. I swirled it around for a minute or so until the salt was completely dissolved and although the vinegar was getting a slight greenish color (no photo of this stage since no action was taking place), I wanted to see more cleaning action..... So I decided to add a layer of aluminum foil to the bottom of the bowl to set up a natural electrolysis action. WOW, did it work fast. I noticed there were bubbles forming, so I set the camera back up to take a photo and after a couple of shots I realized the coins were all turning "PINK". Stop the action quick!!!! I pulled out the coins and rinsed them in a colander. NOT what I was expecting. I realize the salt and vinegar tip by Ron, did not include the addition of an aluminum anode. With the method I used, the coins were substantially cleaned in a matter of minutes even though they were all packed together. However, they are now all or partly pink, which doesn't seem to be a good idea. So my question is, "If I had just left them in the vinegar and salt and allowed them to sit over night would they have still turned pink
Sonny that a bad sign that you are getting old.I forgot what I was suppose to use!
Yep, that's what I do. Tumble in water(not necessary) and if there any holdouts, add a bit of sand to simulate that beach action.
There's worse then that going into a toilet if you know what I mean? Lol!
I guarantee you all of us are guilty of consistently providing some unsafe pollutants into our environment. We're simply cleaning coins here, we're not building a nuclear reactor, operating an industrial factory, or drilling for oil in the ocean floor. 
This progressing debate reminds me of the time when I entered a UAW bass fishing tournament on Lake Monroe back in the 80's. I had a Skeeter Bass boat with a "Suzuki" engine. Wasn't long before a few hard liners came walking my way, looked over my boat and "engine" and proceeded that I should even be allowed to fish in "their" tournament with that "foreign piece of crap" on the back of my boat. So I walk over to their Ranger boat, nice Mercury motor, but all of their rods and reels were of foreign manufacture, so I made sure they saw me examining their tackle and then I said, "You're right. Let's all go home and give up the hobby." That pretty much ended the debate.
I used a body building supplement container Bought rubber coating for tool handles from Home Depot in the paint department to quiet the barrel . A box fan motor and attached a axel to it with a side axel to help stabilize it Built a ply wood box " double walled with hole to support axels" Bent a old street sign into two L shaped fins and attached with P.L. Construction adhesive NOT liquid nails crap and it's held up fine! Didn't want to rivet fins and cause leaks Installed 2 vacuum belts on barrel for added traction And a small U.S.B. Fan to keep the motor from over heating. Works really well used to have to tumble coins for almost all day and sometimes through the night but this I sore I built cleans in about 2 hrs maybe due to speed. 2 fast and your barrel will walk back and forth and try to leave its enclosure. You tube has all kinds of videos on building one but some of them are like what the fudge? Car tires with caps ect.! Hope this helps Sorry big clumps of sand on fins, should have cleaned it out first but got off work at 9:00 tonight
