Ytcoinshooter
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I have a bunch of stuff that I did scoop out of the ocean since the beginning of July. In time I'll get to post them up. Meanwhile I thought I'd share this with anyone who'd like to try it, I made this close to 20 years ago. It's great way to clean water finds. It will take heavy tarnish off silver land finds but you risk removing the patina. Below is an old 350 milliamp charger from a spent cordless screw driver. I split the negative and positive wires and attached alligator clips w/screw terminals to each wire. In a glass cup is water mixed with a little over a teaspoon of baking soda. The anode (stainless flatware) get the positive clip, the object to be cleaned get the negative clip. Submerge the coin in the solution and don't let it touch the anode. Moving them in closer does speed the process. This works great on old crusty silver. First a before pic and I can only guess it's a dime....? Then the after pic and finally the set up I use. The coin was so thin after the silver oxide came off you could shave with it.Amazing what a little eddy current can do. Obviously the dime is worth nothing, but before it was just a "whatzit?". I'll get to post the more interesting stuff later. For now it's nice to be able to use a desktop instead of my iPhone.
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