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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 126120, member: 4552"]Simple. Just go to Walmart, Kmart, Target, etc and go to the jewelry department. Buy a jar of jewel cleaner or Tarn-X. Dip the coins in there for a while and presto, cleaned and shinny. The nice part of doing this is you still have the cleaner with a dipping basket inside to use for rings, bracelets and real jewelry. </p><p>There are many other ways such as just placing the coins in concentrated Lemon or Lime juice, wash with baking soda and water solution, most acid type drinks such as Mountain Dew or just Coca Cola. However, my favorite is battery acid. Now that kind of depends on the availability of an auto battery that has openable ports. Many nowadays are sealed since they do not contain an acid that emits Hydrogen gas when charged. If there is none with openable ports in your family, try checking out the batteries of friends, neighbors or reletives. If none of them have them, try a garage or gas station and ask if they have an old battery you could borrow some acid out of. If all that fails, some Sears auto sections actually sell the stuff. </p><p>It's a little unsanitary but note that spit is somewhat caustic and will also act as a cleaning agent. Then there is Lacquer thinner, but that will leave a whitish residue that must be claned off by further dipping in something like alcohol. If you use a drinking type alcohol, you can drink the finished product.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 126120, member: 4552"]Simple. Just go to Walmart, Kmart, Target, etc and go to the jewelry department. Buy a jar of jewel cleaner or Tarn-X. Dip the coins in there for a while and presto, cleaned and shinny. The nice part of doing this is you still have the cleaner with a dipping basket inside to use for rings, bracelets and real jewelry. There are many other ways such as just placing the coins in concentrated Lemon or Lime juice, wash with baking soda and water solution, most acid type drinks such as Mountain Dew or just Coca Cola. However, my favorite is battery acid. Now that kind of depends on the availability of an auto battery that has openable ports. Many nowadays are sealed since they do not contain an acid that emits Hydrogen gas when charged. If there is none with openable ports in your family, try checking out the batteries of friends, neighbors or reletives. If none of them have them, try a garage or gas station and ask if they have an old battery you could borrow some acid out of. If all that fails, some Sears auto sections actually sell the stuff. It's a little unsanitary but note that spit is somewhat caustic and will also act as a cleaning agent. Then there is Lacquer thinner, but that will leave a whitish residue that must be claned off by further dipping in something like alcohol. If you use a drinking type alcohol, you can drink the finished product.[/QUOTE]
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