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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2355671, member: 1892&quot;]Heh. When I had my house - that all blew up in 2007 when the market crashed - I did all that work in the bathroom because of fire safety and easy isolation/ventilation. Now I work on a stainless steel table on a fireproof portable floor covering.</p><p><br /></p><p>And fire extinguishers spaced at steadily-further distances from that location, as I mentioned. Among my tools is a propane kiln; I can completely melt most coins if I want, and you would be <b>astonished</b> (well, maybe not <i>you</i>) how easy some things are to &quot;conserve&quot; if you have a thousand degrees Fahrenheit easily available. I suspect that&#039;s a major NCS tool as well. I&#039;ve screwed up coins in some pretty ridiculous fashions. With the right touch and a little luck, I can turn a coin back into a planchet. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oooh - I gotta add this: People, <b>clad coins in general and</b> <b>Zlincolns in particular are nothing you want to do this with. </b>Zinc has a relatively low melting point, and you <i>don&#039;t</i> want to discover trapped water/materials in a clad in this fashion. Trust me on this. That kind of heat is only useful for alloys, and even then laminations are one of those &quot;sometimes your best efforts still kill the coin&quot; incidents Insider mentioned.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am a diagnosed adult ADHD patient, although it wasn&#039;t a &quot;diagnosis&quot; when I was a kid in Vermont - I was just a &quot;rambunctious kid&quot; who got disciplined a lot. I learned to control the mental stuff in my teens as a survival mechanism (fortunately, sufficient intelligence usually exists with the syndrome that I could fly through academic tasks before I lost attention), and I&#039;ve chosen not to treat the physical hyperactivity because it&#039;s set me in good stead in my middle age; I ride my bike a few thousand miles a year, and walk another thousand or so, just for recreation. I&#039;ve never reached 10% bodyfat and am currently around 4% at 56 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatics is the <b>only</b> thing I&#039;ve ever been able to concentrate on for more than a couple months. And I can concentrate on it with all the &quot;nothing else exists at that moment&quot; obsession of ADHD. It&#039;s the greatest blessing in my life, along with the Calling (it&#039;s the only way to describe it, teachers know what I mean) to teach.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why I do this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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