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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 4060657, member: 112&quot;]It&#039;s going to be pretty rare that distilled water, acetone, and or xylene doesn&#039;t remove whatever it is you&#039;re trying to get off the coin. I really can&#039;t think of any substance that one or more of those 3 things won&#039;t get off the coin that Coin Care will get off the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>But the primary point is this, none of those 3 things will harm the coin, and they will take off anything that Coin Care will, so why would you want to risk using something that will be harmful to the coin ? In all honesty, you should simply throw Coin Care away and just not use it.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, if you do use it, then you need to rinse the coin in xylene (acetone doesn&#039;t work well for this) afterwards to remove the oils Coin Care leaves behind, and then do a final rinse in distilled water, and then put a soft towel or cloth down on the countertop, stand the coin on edge leaning up against the backsplash, and let the coin air dry.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yuu can use it for a preliminary rinse but make sure to use distilled water as the final rinse.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You say MS70 seems to do a much better job - a much better job than what exactly ? Have you used the processes I&#039;ve described with distilled water, acetone, and xylene ? There ism&#039;t anything, other than haze on Proof coins, that those 3 things will not take off a coin that MS70 will take off a coin ! And all 3 of them are 3 to 5 times cheaper, or more, than MS70. So why use MS70 ? </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of folks seem to think it is but that&#039;s debatable. First of all, you are thinking that microfiber cloths are soft, softer than other cloths, but do you know what microfiber cloths are made of ? They are made of very fine plastic fibers, and those plastic fibers are very hard and very sharp. And they can hairline a coin to death and you can&#039;t even see it with the naked eye. Do you know why microfiber cloths were invented ? It&#039;s because they do such a great job of polishing things. Do you know why they do such a great job of polishing ? It&#039;s because they are so fine, and hard and sharp. It&#039;s because the scratches and hairlines they leave behind are too fine to see with the naked eye. But those scratches and hairlines are still there !</p><p><br /></p><p>Now cotton is much the same way, and at least it is a natural fiber, but it will still hairline a coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, why risk dabbing or blotting a coin with something that can and may harm the coin - when there is a better way that will not and cannot harm the coin in any way ? And I described that method for drying coins above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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