Steel cents and being bored

Hello all,
I am having a slow day. So I thought I would play with my steelies. Yesterday my wife got out Tarn-X to clean her silverware...any how I decided to drop a steelie in....left it overnight and this morning I went to check on what it did....and low and behold it is sparkling like it came from the mint.....It was very dirty and nasty...will post pics later......its funny it states do not use on steel on the bottle.....after what it says I decided to play...or in tech terms experiment.....:smile....I started at 8 this morning I got 10 done with very nice results......just alittle FYI......Under a 10x loupe it looks great...under a 300x stereo star zoom microscope by reichert I see no tell tale signs of a cleaning......weird.....
I keep you posted.....
Neal

 

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I'll be interested to see your results.
Since you say the surfaces look very good, I'm curious.
I know what reprocessed steelies look like.
And I have a MS-66 so I have a good idea of what original coins look like.
Be interesting to see if the amateur me can see anything that would raise red flags.

 

I don't see why it couldn't do a great job.

 

REMEMBER!!!! Pick your canidates well....if it's really worn it looks like cr*p.........out of 50 I got 29 that look good.....5 that look great....

 

I'm waiting for the weather to get a bit more stable and better.
Then I'll sit out back and clean up some coins.
Acetone to get rid of crud on some. Should not harm them IF I don't do any rubbing.
Electrolysis on some real disasters. Coins that I would have a hard time making worse AND that don't have enough merit to send to NCS.

 

I hear ya Kanga.....believe or not I am still messing around here...experimenting as I told my wife......I am still amazed..I am working on various methods and times....Its fun and keeping me occupied...ofcourse my 20 yr old is home and just shakes his head and says your so wierd....kids...

 

Maybe since the steelies are zinc plated is why the Tarn-X didn't attack the steel?

 

Silvrluvr: I don't really know.....I do need to swirl the glass trays around every five mins...its weird....but I am having fun...haha

 

Do post some pics. I have about 150 of them and most are nearly black....

 

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

I can"t seem to upload......it keeps failing......hmmmmmmmmmmm
Never did this b4
ohh well I'll try later....:desk:

 

:whistle:

:mouth::mouth::mouth:

 

I hear ya andrew289.....wahing my system see if that helps......just not uploading.....sorry

 

I figured out why

my photos are 2.6 mb too high of resol....sorry gonna need to re-shoot em....duh :loud::headbang:

 

Houston, save the picture as a jpeg. You'll be able to upload then. :smile

 

Are you sure it was Tan-X and not a jewlery cleaner? If so at Walmart they sell several different types and some say not for Copper, use on Silver only, etc. Also, if she has been using that for some time it may have left a coating on the coin. Keep on experimenting and let us know. You may well be on the way of a major breakthough in 1943 Steel cent restorations.

 

I'd like to see some pics!

 

so you did it on the crap or the great ones?

 

heres the results!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alot of them look great...you must remember to only do one at a time...and swirl the tarn-x around in glass cup.....do not use a plactic container,,,must use glass.......
thanks
Neal

 

also remember to change the fluid and you need to flip the cent every 5 mins or so...

 

just carl: Yes it was tarn-x!!!!