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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2908915, member: 112&quot;]When you are trying to properly clean a coin following the graduated steps of distilled water, acetone, and xylene - won&#039;t hurt anything. But it&#039;s often not necessary once you learn a bit. While one is still learning well yeah then I can see it. But once ya do, you&#039;ll come to recognize which one you need to use to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>But mixing and matching different commercial products - that&#039;s seldom a good idea. With junk coins no you&#039;re not going to hurt anything really, and experimenting is how we learn. But please don&#039;t try it on coins that matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually, using a commercial dip is the last resort, but once one learns it can often become the first resort. And that is because you have already learned that the other stuff just isn&#039;t going to work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that said, commercial coin dip also has it&#039;s limitations. It&#039;s great at getting rid of toning, but it does a really lousy job of getting ordinary dirt and grime of off coins. This is because you almost never want to dip a coin for more than 1 second, and there&#039;s not a whole lot it can do in one second - except get rid of toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ordinary dirt and grime, that has to be removed using other methods, and just about nothing works better than ordinary distilled water. Usually long soaks in it when the dirt is deep in the crevices, followed by rinsing under tap water under pressure, followed by rinsing in distilled water again to make sure you don&#039;t have any issue crop up when you let the coin dry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Acetone, xylene, and coin dip - all of them do a lousy job on ordinary dirt and grime - they just don&#039;t penetrate it. Water does ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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