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Post by leslie on Jan 4, 2010 16:23:46 GMT -5
From the land of the Bluenose....well me son they say necessity is the mother of invention and ...well..I never knew Navy Davy had a mother. Thought he was made up from spare parts from the galley on a ship. Shocking! Anyway on wid it youz. So how can margarine help in your detecting? Take the empty containers and recylce them to aid in coin cleaning. ND came up with this brain storm (more like a brain hurricane). Take a large margarine container then a small one like Becel (wish I got royalties fur dis un) and in the smaller tub cut holes in the bottom that will allow the grit in your tumbler barrel to fall through with the dirty water but holes not large enough for your coins to escape. Shake the large container that houses all the coins and grit vigorously (not too be confused with taking Viagara me son for that would make it too hard to do)then remove the smaller tub wid all da coins from inside the bigger un youz. Now take an ordinary kitchen strainer and drain the water where ever your heart desires and all the grit or aquarium gravel will remain in the strainer. No more picking out each coin from the gravel. Another innovative product from the research lab of "TheBluenoser's with too much time on their hands."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2010 18:51:22 GMT -5
I used to be into coin collecting...never bought any or hunted any, just the ones that were in general circulation. I've found a bunch of early 60's and earlier Canadian coins, which have a higher silver content.
Anyway, I had a bunch of pennies and couldn't figure out a good way to clean them. I didn't want to use a toothbrush for fear I would scrape them....so, for some odd reason, I grabbed a half a piece of dad's polident, threw in some water, threw in the pennies, and after about a minute they looked like they just came off the mint. I tried it again and left them for longer, but damaged them (really, they weren't worth more than a cent, so I didn't reallt care that much).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2010 18:52:43 GMT -5
and, yes...they smelled minty fresh!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2010 6:49:17 GMT -5
Good one Jakin.
I'll try that sometime on some crusty copper that I can't read or care about.
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