Rock Tumbler cleaning coins
- Thread starter demyansk1942
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dennis harbour
Full Member
Does the red stain on clads come off if tumbled?
I ran my nickels through it last night and they came out nice and silver, no red anymore.
hubbit
Senior Member
Clr....
What is your magic formula? Is it simply CLR, or do you include anything else? Also, I worry about how the CLR might interact with the rubber "innards" of tumbler?
What is your magic formula? Is it simply CLR, or do you include anything else? Also, I worry about how the CLR might interact with the rubber "innards" of tumbler?
demyansk1942
Elite Member
I am going to try some bird gravel that I have left over.
DetectorOCD
Elite Member
I use my daughter's hermit crab gravel 
I have tried most of the suggestions made including what Stevo says above and that works about the best for me. I made a tumbler that will take 3 or 4 pounds of coins in one batch. Took me parts of 3 days to clean up $600 worth of coins last winter. A fraction of what it took me other years.
Jerry
bobcartree
Forum Supporter
make sure you read the manual
Best way
I have tried everything in my tumbler to get the coins as clean as possible, and I can tell you their is only one way I have found to do this the right way and to clean them to the best they be cleaned. I use rocks that I picked off the ground little and big, now here is the part that will work I promise. Go to the grocery store and buy a big box of S.O.S (steel wool) pads with the soap in it already then cut off a little piece of the steel wool (S.O.S) throw it in the tumbler withe the rocks and some water let tumble for about 1 or 2 hours, and you will be amazed how clean they come out. You can use as big as a piece as you want depending on how many times you want to go to the grocery store.
I have tried everything in my tumbler to get the coins as clean as possible, and I can tell you their is only one way I have found to do this the right way and to clean them to the best they be cleaned. I use rocks that I picked off the ground little and big, now here is the part that will work I promise. Go to the grocery store and buy a big box of S.O.S (steel wool) pads with the soap in it already then cut off a little piece of the steel wool (S.O.S) throw it in the tumbler withe the rocks and some water let tumble for about 1 or 2 hours, and you will be amazed how clean they come out. You can use as big as a piece as you want depending on how many times you want to go to the grocery store.
