My Rock Tumbler Coin Cleaning Technique - Amazing Results!
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- čas přidán 7. 03. 2016
- This video is about My Rock Tumbler Coin Cleaning Technique - Using a Harbor Freight / Chicago Electric Dual Drum tumbler I can turn dirty, crusty looking clad coinage into new looking shiny coins
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Refreshing my memory, tumbling again before vacation. They come out looking brand new. Great video!
Thank You for showing how you shine up your clad!
Thank you so much for sharing. I just bought that tumbler about an hour ago and you instructions gave me exactly what I need to do to get my coins cleaned. Thanks again....and happy hunting!
Wow, that really us a difference. I've heard several people talk about using a tumbler for clads. Definitely interested in buying one. Thanks.
going to try this. great vid, and I like your recipe...thx
I made a couple videos about tumbling Metal Detected clad change . But I really like the results of your video . I'll have to try it THX.
Just got a tumbler and going to try them . Thanks for the info.
excellent demonstration, thanks
Thanks for your video. Helped a lot.😁 My coins metal detecting were bad and they cleaned up very nice with your technique.
Amazing, best I have seen yet. Thanks for sharing. Very helpful!!
Thanks for watching and commenting.... I was even surprised myself at how nice this works. Been trying different techniques and this worked best.
@@yerdigginitmetaldetecting....They came out very nice !! Bought the same tumbler Today. My question is, do I need to use Apple cider vinegar or can I use white vinegar?
Thanks for sharing, I am thinking of making a yin-yang out of old pennies. This will help in cleaning them up!
Just got done sticking a bunch of pennies in the exact same tumbler with soap and water. Thought I would check out CZcams to see how others do it and saw your video. Definitely going to use your cleaning recipe. Guess I'm going to try and find some aquarium rock before rinse tumbling again. Can't believe how well the Quarters and Dimes came out. Thanks for sharing, good luck, happy hunting and take care. ✌️
Thanks for the tips!! Just bought a tumbler for my coin's your method seems to be flawless. Will be watching more of your work. Thanks!!!
Awesome! Thank you!
@@yerdigginitmetaldetecting unbelievable results from your videos!!! Even the dirtiest coins came clean. Thanks again!!😁😁
Great start to finish video.......thanks
Good technique, thanks for sharing!
awesome' very educational video bro' thank you, now i know how to clean my coins with confident attitude.
Thanks for tutorial, very helpful. Craig
Great cleaning technique and nicely presented!
Colorado Searcher Thank you, much appreciated.
Cool Vid-Thanks. Even the Canadian came out sparkl'in!;)...Thanks for posting this!
Dirk Ayala Thanks, glad you enjoyed. 😎
Great video, I recently found at the beach 2 1930s brass lipsticks in good condition, in the same hole was a diamond ring, my Equinox is saying its silver. But its really crusty, the stone looks good. Any idea how to clean it, or to far gone? Thanks
Wow great video thanks for posting
Awesome 👍!! Thanks so much for the technique 😀
You are so welcome!
yerdigginit metal detecting, when i get the specific tumbler that you have in this video, i am going to try out this technique for myself. It sure beats soaking pennies in pepsi and cleaning them with an eraser.
Just bought one of these units. Good vid 👍🏽
Thanks for watching & commenting. I'm happy with the machine, had it about a year now I believe.
That looks like it did a pretty good job! Nice video!!
MunkeySpaz Thanks, I have to admit that I’ve cut back on a lot of the time run and chemicals used since I first made this video. This here is a great technique for really getting the coins super clean but now I just mainly try to get them good enough to return them to the bank ... not perfect. Thanks for watching and commenting. 😎
nice job... looking good... thanks
Great video Coins came out looking great
Ray Bush Thanks for watching & commenting, much appreciated. 😎
Great video!
Excellent Video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed. 😎
Thanks for this video!
Great job
Thanks for sharing👍💞👍
Very nice!
did the Zinc corrode in the procedure or as a result of being lost and to the effects of nature?
I have tried so many things that did not work. I'm trying this today !
Great job man.
Mike Smith Thank you, I appreciate it. 😎
thanks, good video.....
Thank you
how to remove house paint from coins. I have a bag of coins that weigh 60punds. Has alot of paint and dirt. what can I use
I'm going to guess that the CLR did all the work on the chemical run.
I didn’t see you clean any nickels, can you clean them with the quarters and dimes or does it have to be separate?
Very good job of cleaning W O W ! !
Thanks so much.
Just the video I was looking for
DERANGEDFUCKFACE I’m glad you found it. 😎 Thanks for watching
yerdigginit metal detecting yes your video was cool and right to the point I like the use of the aquarium rocks and other chemicals salt dawn clr and vinegar. The one thing I'm not going to do is wash it in the sink maybe outside with a hose I don't know if I like the black stuff and CLR in my pipes might clog or rot the fittings in the pipes? Another thing I will do is 1 hour tumble with water clean and then 1 hour with water again then clean then use the chemicals. I love your results good video thanks for sharing now I'm off to Harbor Freight.
thanks
Great video. Did you experiment a lot before settling on this recipe of chemicals? Would you use the same thing for coin collections? I inherited a coin collection from my dad and some of them need some good cleanup and I'm not sure the best to do it. I already have a tumbler for rocks.
Do not tumble your valuable coins. It will devalue them. I done it with an 1902 Indian penny. Looked good until you magnified and looked at it. Not sure the process but there is a better way.
Nice!! Very Nice!!!
Jim Cole Thanks, much appreciated.
I subbed too thanks! Mike
A person who is new to coin collecting. Asked the appraiser/salesman why the coin. That was cleaned to a mirred polish. Was less expensive then the dirty one. Of the exact same type, his response is. When the owner cleaned these coins. It substantually reduce its collecting value. Then he went into it a little further.
ARIES MIGHT True. In the very first sentence of this video I state that this is a technique for cleaning the dug up coins that will be spendable a pocket change and not the collectible coins.
I’m using the same materials, but not getting the same results. None are shiny/new looking. Any idea why? I’m just hoping the coins are clean enough for Coinstar
I do exactly the same thing with the same tumbler too
Metal Pirate Girl It does a great job. I’ve cut back a bit on my tumbling time realizing it’s not necessary to have the coins perfectly shiny just to return ...but am basically doing the same technique. I made the video a long time ago but it is still very popular.
cool gotta get a tumbler
Yeah, it's a good investment ... I'm happy with mine.
Great
Why do you think the water is dirty from the coins and not the gravel?
That was pretty cool I have several hundred war nickels that are gross but I might give it a shot best takeaway was the aquarium gravel! Thanks for the video !!!
Mike Smith Thanks for watching and commenting ... and for the sub. I never tried War Nickels, would be interested in hearing how you make out if you try it out.
I have the same tumbler... Sometimes my containers just pop open making a big mess :( Yours sure came out cleaner than mine do... Thanks!
I have the same problem mainly if I use soap
Me, too. I think I used too many chemicals and it created a lot of pressure.
I have a brand new Lortone tumbler. When I ran a batch of pennies using only abrasive and water, the tumbler ran just fine. Whenever I used all the chemicals in this video, my barrel popped open twice. Maybe there is some reaction going on that causes pressure to build up internally. I’m going to try leaving out the vinegar first to see if that makes a difference. Has anybody experimented with combinations of the 4 ingredients? What does the salt contribute to the process?
@@carlosh11934 Salt adds grit (Abrasive)
Try using distilled water.
Wish I had the same results when cleaning my coins with a tumbler. I use the same material as you use except baking soda and not salt. Maybe my gravel size is to small. After 8 hours of tumbling the pennies ( mostly found detecting) about 90% are quite clean, but none have little or no shine returned. . Trying the same method with a mix of quarters and dimes now. After 6 hours, Lot of dirty water, the dimes look some better but kind of dark, the quarters still very dark, not much change outside of dirt cleaned off. maybe I'm using to small of aquarium gravel. I'm going to let the quarters and dimes to run for another 8 hours to see if anything changes.
The salt reacts with the vinegar (a weak acid) to produce HCL, hydrochloric acid, a strong acid. Mixing vinegar with baking soda (a base) is just making a weak acid into weaker acid.
A tumbler the correct media soap and water is all you need may take a little longer but tons less chemicals. The fact also stands that some clad coins are totally void of any of its original surface due to corrosion the coin may be clean in the end but it will never be silver in appearance again!
Hey do you have any advice on what to do with zinc pennies. Some zinc pennies I can spend but others have chunks missing off of the edges and I have to file them down so they aren't sharp. The soil I dig is bad here and the zinc cents start corroding as soon as they hit the ground. My way of spending them is putting one nasty one among freshly circulated ones and try and blend it in but I have so many zinc cents itll take years to rid of them all. Is there a faster way I can spend them?
I just mix some of the slightly sketchy ones in with rolls, maybe 5-10 per roll. The really toasted ones I'd probably just trash.
On the Beach is worse . The copper plate bubbles and falls off
I don't even try to mess with those crusty zinkers. Not worth the time. I probably trash $5 worth of them every year.
My bank doesn't even open the rollers. They'll take any penny.
Nice Bro!
Speaking from England - is there an equivalent to CLR I can buy? (I had to look up what CLR was - never heard of it)
CLR here in the States is used to remove lime scale and rust, soak shower heads to clean off calcification, restore water flow, generally de-gunk stuff.
I just use Dawn detergent and get this same result.
I’m surprised to see that you don’t rinse the tumbler drums after each cycle. Isn’t there residual dirt in the drums?
Hi. I watched your video very well.
I put chemicals and turned them into coins.
The gas came up inside, and the case swelled up.
Then there was a "puck" sound and water flowed.
What is my problem?
Probably too many chemicals that created pressure in the drum. That's what happened to me. I think I used too many chemicals at the wrong proportions: White vinegar, CLR, and salt = boom!
A little tip to make measure fast is to use Talenti Icecream jars. one full of water is one pound. Half of the container of gravel then weigh the coins to one pound and your all set!! So I just learned that my machine can only do a 3 pound total not 3 pound each Drum. It almost locked up and burned
Bryan Hemedinger Thanks for the tips, valuable info. I also help the drums get spinning with my hand upon hitting the START button ... I believe this takes some of the stress off off the motor.
nice work, i get a similar result with lemon juice , salt and water.
Dirt Bandit Thanks, I just might give that a try. I don’t really know the science behind it ... I just experiment & see what works. 😎 GL&HH!
it works pretty well but i like the clr method, I'm just too cheap, lol.
Did you go thru the dimes and quarters looking for pre-1965 90% silver coins?? I sure hope so.
I do believe they stopped silver coins in 1964 not 65
@@johnwalczak935 That's what pre-65 means.
Can you reuse the gravel?
Gary Sabo Yes, I’ve had the same gravel in for over a year and a half. I heard recently that copper bb’s make a good tumbling medium too and make give that a try. 😎
Great job but you definitely need to stick with the Dawn 🙂
I’m flattered that you are binge watching yerdigginit videos on you birthday… you are correct though, Dawn is the best! ❤️
SUGGESTION: after rinsing each time, save a couple coins to the side so at the end you will have a couple that were only rinsed once, a couple rinsed twice, and the final result and we can compare.
Also, that ‘dirt’ making the water turn black is the metal and it’s oxides.
Doesn’t your mom get mad at you for running thetumbler in the kitchen?
One thing i’d advise against is washing that silt and crud down your sink.. could lead to expensive plumbing issues down the road.
I have a lot of dirty coins from the 1800's, would your method work on those coins or would it damage them?
cplrey I would not recommend doing this to any coin of value.
Any reasonably collectible coin should NOT be cleaned using this method or any other method.
@@coloradosearcher8673 so we can send them in to be graded so dirty you can't read the date ?
@@klausmitchell643 if dirty you won't be sending them in
One thing I don't get is, vinegar is an acid and CLR is alkaline. So they would balance each other out?
Aussie Bloke I don’t really know the science behind it , just tried different things that I have heard and it works, getting great results.
yerdigginit metal detecting no worries. I'll give it a go
He doesn't know what he is doing?
Is salt used to cut down the Suds when tumbling?
Salt actually breaks down the protective layer of the oxide to allow the vinegar to penetrate.
Salt and vinegar becomes hydrochloric acid.
Just because I'm curious. What happens when you mix the coins up together using your system?
I believe the silver colored coins come out less silvery looking if mixed with the more coppery colored coins
Solidsguy i was told the clad will turn pinkish color.
I can say from personal experience that all the silver coins will end up with a pinkish tint. I found no way to remove that tint, even with subsequent cleanings. Even one or two pennies in a batch of silver clad can cause the whole batch to turn pinkish.
If you reversed the order detergent first ,then two rinses!❓
Omg the anxiety of leaving the running water on and all that silt going down your drain..Turn it off for the sake of saving some water and filter the silt and save it for later tumbler uses. That silt and rock is bad for drains. Thanks for the video and uneeded anx attack.
your coins came out good but if i was doing it the same way your doing it i would have used sos pads afterwords & they would have come out even better with more shine to them. I don`t have a tumbler but the way i do my coins is sos pads & if they don`t come out to clean i soak them in the clr for a long time & then rub them down with the sos pads again & most of them will come out like new. I do have problems with very brown nickels inpossible to clean.
Great advice, thanks
I separate the copper pennies from the zinc pennies.
Please tell me why. (I'm new at this.) Do the zinc pennies interfere with cleaning copper pennies? Do you not clean zinc pennies or just do them separately? Thanks for your time.
@@joycefirosz6536 The zinc pennys can discolor the copper ones. Also, the copper pennys are worth more than their face value for the copper.
@@ericanderson8556 I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing!
I don't see the point of the water-only step. You should add the Dawn right at the start as it will break down the dirt faster.
Those corroded zinc pennies are still spendable.
My bank has been refusing to take any change with corrosion.
I'm assuming soon they will be refusing pennies.
Using gravels, won't that damaged the coins?...lost of weight of the coin. Water will oxidise.
A lot of dirt
use rice
But why would it matter if non numismatic coins are nice looking. Its just pocket change at the end of the day.
I guess you are saying you wouldn't mind having a pocket full of those dirty coins before cleaning? To each his own.
I hear that you just take the dirty coins to a bank and they will give you face value. They get sent back to the mint for recycling. No tumbler needed.
Or you can send them to Boy George, He'll tumble for ya! LOL
Actually the Federal Reserve is not accepting dirty coins, worn and damaged coins. They said they were receiving too many counterfeits. This has been going on for at least 2 years now. If the Feds won't take them from the banks, then the banks won't take them from us.
Your process works.
My way is easiest if you tumble brass cases often enough to justify owning a tumbler and stainless polishing media.
Dump the coins in, add water until 3/4 full, add Dawn along with a spoon full of Lemi Shine.
Close the drum and place it on the rollers and with a flip of the power switch go do you for about an hour or so.rinse the media amd coins. Then place the coins/brass on old cookie sheets in the oven, turn it on low and listen for bitching. That's your sign.she is alive. Go on without words doing you until the coins get dry. You can admire your work after the coins and your significant other cool down.
See how they shine now, that's because the coins have been stripped of anything of added value and now the sexy looking coins are only worth face, just like her, after 30 its a steady decline lucky for you a nickle is still worth a nickle, that hottie you once wed...
You sure wasted a lot of water, by leaving it running for no reason.
Cleaning your coins like that drastically reduces the price of your coins, especially in the future when most other coins are melted down due to the coming high price. You will be left with pure melt value and lose thousands of dollars. Collectors don't like their coins cleaned like that...
james david Thanks, agreed. In the very first sentence of this video I state that this is strictly a recipe for cleaning dirty clad coinage found metal detecting, just the spendable non-collectible pocket change.
Unfortunately, the melt value of nearly all clad coins is less than the face value of the coin itself, and this gentleman is not suggesting you clean collectible coins.
I prefer clean coins.
And all those coins ground up against eachother. Under their own weight alone. More or less in an acid bath. Doing all kinds of damage. Making them all worthless.
Cleaning a common clad coin will never make it worth less than its face value - only more presentable in circulation.
I am excited to try this technique. I have tried many different techniques to clean the coins and they ALL turn orange
I have the same issue with most all of the coins turning orange even though they are clean. I've tried polishing some of them with a dremel rotary tool with the felt polishing disc and automotive polishing compound. Some of them can be brought back to gray/silver color but the process is too tedious and time-consuming if you have hundreds of coins to do.