Uncle Willy
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I use the same pad over and over. Tough to wear one out.
Bill
Bill
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I am experimenting with my tumbler and I tried a brillo pad like Uncle Willy suggested
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Uncle Willy
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They all work the same. I get mine at the Dollar Store.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Gravel is fairly cheap at Wally World and it lasts forever. I'm still using the gravel I bought years ago. I also use steel BB's that last forever and work great.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Nah, we're just thrifty. 
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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" Cheap Charlie" has that certain ring to it.
Bill
Bill
I"m gonna have to jump on the Brillo Bandwagon. I haven't had much luck lately with tumbling; using sand, gravel, dishsoap and the big Thumler's Model B tumbler. Nothing much has been coming out clean, after 2 hours, 4 hours or even 16 hours. Some of it's the dirty or rusted money, but I think I'm going to try the Brillo and see what happens. Thanks for the tip!
Steve
Steve
When you are a clad hunter like I am you have to tumble almost every weekend or at least every other weekend. I have processed $106 in clad this month so far, all found after June 1.
I have another load going right now with a steel wool pad and gravel. UW says he uses his pads over and over. I find mine are pretty torn up after one session. I am using a combo of gravel and a steel wool pad maybe that is what tears it up. The last batch I did this way stained the inside of my tumbler brown. I think the steel wool roughed up the interior and the muddy brown water stained it. After a batch with just gravel and soap it was black again.
My preferred method is still gravel, soap, and water. This way takes time. Usually 24-36 hours for the coins I find. I generally change the water about every 6-8 hours. Remove clean coins. Add more dirty. I am still amazed at the gunk that comes off of coins even after tumbling and changing the water 3 times.
Chris
Awhitster, your reading all these tumbling posts? I am dying to hear a cheese steak story.
I have another load going right now with a steel wool pad and gravel. UW says he uses his pads over and over. I find mine are pretty torn up after one session. I am using a combo of gravel and a steel wool pad maybe that is what tears it up. The last batch I did this way stained the inside of my tumbler brown. I think the steel wool roughed up the interior and the muddy brown water stained it. After a batch with just gravel and soap it was black again.
My preferred method is still gravel, soap, and water. This way takes time. Usually 24-36 hours for the coins I find. I generally change the water about every 6-8 hours. Remove clean coins. Add more dirty. I am still amazed at the gunk that comes off of coins even after tumbling and changing the water 3 times.
Chris
Awhitster, your reading all these tumbling posts? I am dying to hear a cheese steak story.
Uncle Willy
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Yeah that's what we called it long ago.
Bill
Bill
If you or Goes4ever find a "Tumbler's Dream" combination of steel wool pads, gravel, soap, sand, luck and hard work please PM me. Like I said I'm going to try the steel wool, I used to get nice shiny clad but my last few batches have come out dull and crappy, kind of dark and rusty-looking. My penny batches come out fine with the gravel, sand, dish soap and a tablespoon or so of Cream of Tarter, it's just the clad I can't seem to get shiny lately and it kind of torques me to run a batch that doesn't "gleam" when I'm done. The bank still takes it, I usually only find enough to turn in $250-$300/year. It USED to pay for the gas.........
Steve
Steve
Try changing the gravel. I find that when the gravel has been used for a while all the rough edges are smoothed out and it loses it's effectiveness. I am going to try some good old fashioned road gravel soon and see if that's sturdier. I finished my latest batch this morning and there was nothing much left of my SOS pad. A few small chunks of steel wool.
I tend to overload my tumbler and that may be a problem. I started this latest batch with 80 quarters and 120 nickels. After a few hours I pulled about 30 clean quarters and 20 clean nickels out which lightened th load to whatI should be tumbling in one batch. They went for about 36 hours and all except for about 5 each of nickels and quarters are really bright.
I am trying real hard to limit my detecting mileage to 400 miles (one tank of gas/20 gallons of gas) a month. At that useage, my clad would still cover my gas. Barely.
Chris
I tend to overload my tumbler and that may be a problem. I started this latest batch with 80 quarters and 120 nickels. After a few hours I pulled about 30 clean quarters and 20 clean nickels out which lightened th load to whatI should be tumbling in one batch. They went for about 36 hours and all except for about 5 each of nickels and quarters are really bright.
I am trying real hard to limit my detecting mileage to 400 miles (one tank of gas/20 gallons of gas) a month. At that useage, my clad would still cover my gas. Barely.
Chris