war nickel after electrolosis/ updated with 1923 token pic

juju · Dec 15, 2008

Here are the results of the nickel after electrolosis. This is the one that had the steel wheat rusted to it. Found a couple days ago. This makes 3 1943s nickels from the same yard. Used 12v 500mili amps for 3 hours.
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JuJu
The token just came out of the bath. Not bad at all.

N.J.THer · Dec 16, 2008

Re: war nickel after electrolosis

Nice job...I'll have to try that on some of my war nickels.

A friend built me a system and he included a plastic shield that goes in front of the stainless steel so they cant touch by accident. It works out really well.

NJ

phantomfinder · Dec 16, 2008

Re: war nickel after electrolosis

That came out looking very sweet, nice job .....congrats :thumbsup:

juju · Dec 16, 2008

Re: war nickel after electrolosis

superficialbob said:
WOW THAT'S IMPRESSIVE. DID YOU MAKE YOUR OWN ELECTROLOSIS DEVICE?

I sure did. They are very simple to put together.
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JuJu

juju · Dec 16, 2008

Re: war nickel after electrolosis

phantomfinder said:
That came out looking very sweet, nice job .....congrats

Thank you my friend.
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JuJu

Bertman · Dec 16, 2008

Well done... Those cleaned up nicely...

Couple of questions:
How much was the power supply?
What is the type of metal the token is made of?

HH Robert

juju · Dec 16, 2008

Bertman said:
Well done... Those cleaned up nicely...

Couple of questions:
How much was the power supply?
What is the type of metal the token is made of?

HH Robert

The power supply was $21.99 at radio shack. The token composition seems to be an alloy. The process did expose a tiny bit of copper under the brass plating. Hope this helps.
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JuJu

camb1 · Dec 16, 2008

Nice Finds. :thumbsup:

Did a great job in cleaning.

John Deere Digger · Dec 16, 2008

Nice job on the cleaning. I have some cruddy tokens but am afraid to use electrolosis on them. Have you tried this on other tokens, that one cleaned up pretty good.
JDD

juju · Dec 16, 2008

John Deere Digger said:
Nice job on the cleaning. I have some cruddy tokens but am afraid to use electrolysis on them. Have you tried this on other tokens, that one cleaned up pretty good.
JDD

Trying an aluminum washington tax token right now. Seems ok. Have done several others with great results, but never aluminum. I only do electrolysis if there is iron rust stuck to the coin or token. Most tokens clean really quick, if they are alloy. So you have to watch them super close. The copper or brass ones clean at about the rate of a penny
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JuJu

woody_g · Dec 17, 2008

came out pretty good

ringfinder · Dec 17, 2008

Thanks for a very friendly post. I appreciate the info on the electrolysis process. Would it be OK if I use
it in one of my clubs newsletters. I belong to a club here in NW Ohio, called the Black Swamp Metal
Detecting Club.

I have used electrolysis before. One time I cleaned several coins and other items, the Sterling Silver Fork
I used sort disintegrated after to much use. LOL, but everything sure cleaned up nice.

I will look into the Radio Shack device you talked about.

Thanks Again and Thanks for a Great Post.

HH, Ringfinder

juju · Dec 17, 2008

ringfinder said:
Thanks for a very friendly post. I appreciate the info on the electrolysis process. Would it be OK if I use
it in one of my clubs newsletters. I belong to a club here in NW Ohio, called the Black Swamp Metal
Detecting Club.

I have used electrolysis before. One time I cleaned several coins and other items, the Sterling Silver Fork
I used sort disintegrated after to much use. LOL, but everything sure cleaned up nice.

I will look into the Radio Shack device you talked about.

Thanks Again and Thanks for a Great Post.

HH, Ringfinder