How to fake a glossy patina?

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We're talking about a steel cent why would you clean it, first off, and then want to put the natural look it had before you cleaned it, back, secondly?

Should have left it alone to begin with. Not a high value coin in the first place.

 

Hmm, haven't seen it. Then again, I haven't been looking either. Wonder if Lowe's or Home Depot has it.

 

Aren't you guys talking about water? Buy it at the corner store.

This thread doesn't seem to properly address cleaning coins. Maybe every is just tired of writing the same thing over and over again?

Yes you CAN properly clean a coin. And no, it shouldn't be done regularly. Though there are times when a coin needs to be taken care of. A lot of the time leaving all the dirt, grime, pvc, whatever it is, will do damage over time.

Though faking a patina... sounds suspicious..

 

As Jack Nicholson said in "Five Easy Pieces", "I fake a little Mozart, you fake a little emotion". I don't think he really meant a patina, but that glossy look zinc has when it is new. I have seen "re-processed" zinc/steel cents offered for sale with a new zinc plating and buffed up.

 

So it's basically the same as bottled purified water?

 

$.99 a gallon in any grocery store. In the bottled water section.

 

Hey, It's only a steel cent. I would never clean other coins. I found a product called Bar Keepers' Friend and it completely removed all rust and opacity and made the coins shiny.

 

This is an example of "not the right way to do it". Sorry

 

Good to know, thanks again.

 

If I recall correctly, distilling won't remove all impurities. If the impurities have a boiling point near that of water (or possibly, below, if you do it the lazy way), they would remain in the vapor, as well.

This is why distilled alcohol requires 80 degree boiling. That way you don't get the water in the post-distilled mix.

 

Distilling will remove all non-volatile impurities. It's not normally targeted at removing liquids or gases, but those usually aren't significant contaminants to begin with (other than the gases that dissolve from air).

Separating liquids with similar boiling points is... complicated. For example, you can't separate out 100% ethanol from water by simple distillation. The best you can get is about 95% (190 proof). Google "azeotrope" for more information.

 

This a thread for makin' "white lightning"?.........

 

Hush! I'm trying to get secrets from other members. I know they're out there...

 

Distilling "water":

 

Heh. My grandfather ran a demonstration still in a state park in the Maryland hills back in the 1960's. I never got to talk to him about it. I don't know if he would've recognized the word "azeotrope", but something tells me he brought significant "practical experience" to the job... :devil: