Okay, there is new people and veterans posting here, so let's pick this collective brain trust. How do you clean your clad and memorials?

[malaquin]

I have been taught to use a rock tumbler and fish gravel with soapy water. Cleaning memorials (pennies) seperately from the clad. Any other suggestions, tips or comments. Time to share the wealth of knowledge out there.

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

Dump them all in Anna's washing machine! Add the fish gravel then some laundery soup. Be sure to use the delicate mode!
Better ask her first, but let me know what she says!

 

[Da Yooper]

I use a tumbler with crushed slag (BB size ) and soap. Pennies by them self.

 

[Mike Chgo area]

n/t

 

[Greg from Mi.]

use a rock tumbler. 1/4 full of coins then fill with water until its about 1/2 full. I then use a granular cleaner like comet or zud. Tumble for about an hour and there good enough for rolling and taking to the bank. I roll each type coin by them self. I never tumble any old coins like Indians or silver coins.
Greg

 

[Greg from Mi.]

I have been known to run a few old bottler in the dishwasher before. I hear you shouldnt but I've never had an issue...........
As long as I get then done before Judy finds out
Greg

 

[steve in so la]

I used to tumble the pennies , roll them and put them in the bank, but now I soak them in a bucket of water overnight, hose them off and let dry on newspapers and then take them to the Coinstar machine. I find that I only end up throwing out 8-10 of them in return for not doing all that work of tumbling.
The clad I tumble with a handfull of play sand, soft scrub & water, then roll and put in the bank. steve in so az

 

[Anonymous]

I never had a tumbler, so just used salt and vinegar for my clad coins by putting quarters, dimes and nickles in different sections of a plastic or TV Dinner tray or plate! The memorials I placed separately in a section of its own, and used vinegar and baking soda for removing dried mud and dirt and then I clean them with an SOS pad (wearing rubber gloves) even the edges and rinsed and dried them by laying them on terry cloth towels or etc. until dry and then placed them in yellow plastic containers (which cocoa comes in) by what worth they are and then I roll them and return them to the bank, some of the corroded ones or the darker ones I spend in change at the stores and I often get some just like them back! Most people just wash the mud and dirt off and then spend them wherever they can.......I've had some pink quarters, some red or green nickels and very badly corroded pennies!

Steve's way sounds the easiest to me by using the coin machines and saving a person all that work so they can use that time finding more of those dirty, corroded and blackened coins! Ma....always did things they hard way and that is why I'm having so much trouble learning how to do things on this Computer with the New Windows Vista! Hope each of you find lots of coins and goodies and cleaning them enough to get rid of all those ugly pennies and clad coins! God Bless! Ma Betty

 

[Aussie MXT]

I soak em overnight in a cup full of Coke-a-Cola.

jd.