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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4800324, member: 112"]Water under pressure can be and in fact IS used to cut through 3 ft. of steel like a hot knife through butter. BUT - a Waterpik ? Unh uh, there's not enough pressure in a Waterpik to do any damage to a coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Waterpiks operate at 10 to 100 psi, depending on the setting you choose. To put that into perspective, your faucets at home, about 60 psi. It's gonna take way more than that to hurt a coin. So using a waterpik is a about as risky as rinsing a coin under your faucet.</p><p><br /></p><p>And even if the dirt and grime you're trying to remove has some grit in it, once that grit is loosened from where it's stuck on the coin, it just flows off with the water that is no longer under pressure. So even it isn't gonna hurt anything. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now of the water that was being pumped through the waterpik was full of grit, yeah, that might with a bit of time. But the water isn't full of grit so no harm is done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 4800324, member: 112"]Water under pressure can be and in fact IS used to cut through 3 ft. of steel like a hot knife through butter. BUT - a Waterpik ? Unh uh, there's not enough pressure in a Waterpik to do any damage to a coin. Waterpiks operate at 10 to 100 psi, depending on the setting you choose. To put that into perspective, your faucets at home, about 60 psi. It's gonna take way more than that to hurt a coin. So using a waterpik is a about as risky as rinsing a coin under your faucet. And even if the dirt and grime you're trying to remove has some grit in it, once that grit is loosened from where it's stuck on the coin, it just flows off with the water that is no longer under pressure. So even it isn't gonna hurt anything. Now of the water that was being pumped through the waterpik was full of grit, yeah, that might with a bit of time. But the water isn't full of grit so no harm is done.[/QUOTE]
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