How do I crack a slab?

Can anyone tell me how to crack a slab without harming the coin?

Thanks!
Garrett

 

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Here's a recent thread!

http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t51211/

 

Click on this link to a previous discussion of the topic.

I guess Catbert is quicker on the trigger than I am.

 

Get Dad to take you & Mom to Red Lobster and order crab! Watch how everyone gets the meat out of the crab, then think SLAB . . . . :hammer:

Ribbit

 

Thanks. After 3 days at a coin show trying to sell my NCS fugio... yeah...

 

I have been known as having catlike reflexes. hya:

 

Just stay out of my sandbox! :stooge:

Ribbit

 

Heeheehee.

 

I was just reading that previous thread & I use the bench vise same way that Schatzy suggested.SLOWLY tighten the vise & voila....
Works like a charm.

 

I've used a dremmel tool with no problems , as I don't have a vise , Garrett have you thought of TNT yet , gets the job done but it's sometimes hard finding the coin . JK
rzage

 

I'd recommend you not listen to Rzage. Have you ever seen a pic of him?

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Did you notice he isn't wearing a helmet? :goofer:

There's just two words that need to be said, to describe Rzage . . . .

G. B. :rolling:

Ribbit

Ps: If you are really alert you would have noticed the real vinyl fake wood slatting in his house and that should also set off alarm bells. dd:

 

how accurate can you swing a 10lb sledhehammer?

 

Here's a pic of a slab after being cracked open to release the coin from captivity! :hammer:

Ribbit

 

What a handsome devil:whistle:.
rzage

 

Yea but Toad , what did the coin look like .:hail:
rzage:hatch::hammer:

Ribbet

 

lol

 

Ha! There is your famous crown royal bag.
As I am typing this I have a 1817 large cent in a medicine bottle filled with franks hot sauce and lemon juice in my left hand. It had a thick layer of PVC. The MS70 turned it blue so I had to use my primitive methods on it.

 

Garrett , so acing your chemistry class has paid off :thumb:, I'll have to start referring to you as Doc :bow:, as in coin doctor .
rzage

 

I think it's more like Doc . . . Doctor Frankenkoin. :goofer:

Ribbit