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My dad has a tumbler, but it hardly does anything to the coins. It leaves them the same color and the dust settles back on them. All it does to try and clean them is vibrate. Made by Chicago. Its also very loud.
I've watched some Utube videos and the people on there use tumblers that use water and soaps.
Just wondering what types of tumblers you guys use to clean your coins.
You can get good tumblers from Harbour Freight at a very reasonable price. Roller drum type.
That is the type I use with aquarium gravel ,soap and water tumble pennies separate from other coins for a few hours and they come out just like new
i use a lortone tumbler, a model 3 A . i have had it for years and i bought an extra barrel for it so i could have one for copper coins and another for clad coins. i use aquarium rock and a shot of dawn dish washing soap and let it run about 5 or 6 hours and the coins come out looking good. the trick is to not overload the tumbler with coins. too many coins and it takes much longer to clean them. i have a couple of vibratory cleaners from midway for polishing brass for reloading ammo and they don't work on coins. anyone good with their hands could build an industrial size tumbler that could clean hundreds of coins at the same time. i remember seeing one on here recently that someone built. had a double barrel setup with a fernco coupling holding the 2 barrels together. looked like a great coin cleaner and much better than anything you could buy without spending a ton on it.
thanks.........roger
Made mine out of a variable speed drill. Put a 2 qt juice container in the coffee can, add rocks, soap and water, tumble for an hour or so. Some will need a repeat. Works great!!
I have a double barrel Chicago tumbler and it works great. Just fill it up 3/4 of the way, add water to the top, and some dish soap. I let the weight of the coins clean themselves but some people use aquarium gravel to aide the cleaning. I just let min run overnight and works like a charm for me.
Remember to tumble pennies separately or all of your coins will be copper looking...
I use Harbor Freight. Cheap and dependable as any. You have to put stuff in the tumbler to clean the coins - aquarium gravel or steel BB's, a concentrated cleaner plus water. I also toss in a half of a brillo pad. Everyone has their own formula.
Mine is an old Lortone. Works quite well. Not too loud. Wifey uses it to polish rocks, too. She'll leave that thing running 24-7 for a whole week. She's quite a rock hound. More so than me. I've always been more of a metalhead. It does clean coins very well, though. Good luck and Happy Hunting!
It does clean coins very well, though. Good luck and Happy Hunting!