DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Santa was good to me this year, but he didn't bring me anything MD related.
I suppose it is up to me, so I bought a new camera with my Christmas bonus money, (Panasonic ZS6) and I still had about $80 left over.
A trip to Harbor freight was in order.
Got the 25% off coupon from Devildog2345 on Sunday and took a little drive.
(Thank You Devildog!)
Bought a nice pair of leather digging gloves...they say they are driving gloves...yea, for driving my detector!
One size only, large, but they fit me fine.
$7.99
Also picked up this composite trowel so on occasion I can get the dirt out of a hole and do the wave over thing with my coil or Propointer.
I do not really like sticking my hands in unknown holes..broken glass and sharp rusty metal sometimes lives there.
$1.99
I also needed a Tumbler very badly since my coins come out of the ground here really crusty and dirty.
I have plenty of K55 motors laying around, and I plan on building my own one day, but I am lazy and tired of looking at this jar of dirty money.
If I took it to the bank in out-of-the-ground condition, the tellers would just yell at me, and I already have enough of that from most of the women in my life.
So I got to the store and of course the poor people who had to work on New Years Day did not have a clue, so I walked around till I found them on a shelf in the back.
They had the single 3lb drum for about $49, and the double drum for $89.
What the hell, I treated myself to the double...one for copper, one for clad.
With the discount on the tumbler, the gloves and trowel and sales tax, it came to about $80.
Got home and I threw in some natural looking aquarium gravel I had laying about, a few drops of dish detergent, some water and some coinage in each drum.
The directions say don't overload or under load the drums, so I weighed each one filled and they came in at about 2 1/2 lbs each and started to tumble.
Checked them at about an hour and a bunch of dirty water poured out and the coins looked way cleaner than when they went in.
Probably can put these coins back in circulation at this point.
I reloaded the detergent and water and tumbled for a few more hours and they came out even cleaner.
2 more loads were tumbled for about 6 hours each and came out about the same, so I don't think I will empty the drums and change the water anymore.
Some coins were still dirty, not many, but these were probably the worst ones and I will just throw them in another load to finish them.
This is the money pre cleaning...
and this is the result....
Pennies...
Clad...
I noticed that most of the coins came out with a very dark toning, which I actually like.
Maybe it was the gravel? I thought it had no color...just natural.
Could be my soil does this to them.
Maybe I will take some of the better ones and make a display, or maybe a clock sometime with these.
The drums are rubber, so the process was not very noisy at all.
I kept checking the motor section for overheating, but no issues with that on mine.
Some people report a problem with belts breaking on these Chicago Tools low end units.
Happy to say, no problems with mine after about 18 hours of tumbling.
They also supply about 5 more belts with the unit, and I can always get an o ring from some auto parts store, or RIP says he got some real good ones online here...
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=61674d
As soon as I get through with last years clad, it's off to the bank we go.
Hey, I might even polish a few nice rocks that I find this year.
HH Y'all!
I suppose it is up to me, so I bought a new camera with my Christmas bonus money, (Panasonic ZS6) and I still had about $80 left over.
A trip to Harbor freight was in order.
Got the 25% off coupon from Devildog2345 on Sunday and took a little drive.
(Thank You Devildog!)
Bought a nice pair of leather digging gloves...they say they are driving gloves...yea, for driving my detector!
One size only, large, but they fit me fine.
$7.99
Also picked up this composite trowel so on occasion I can get the dirt out of a hole and do the wave over thing with my coil or Propointer.
I do not really like sticking my hands in unknown holes..broken glass and sharp rusty metal sometimes lives there.
$1.99
I also needed a Tumbler very badly since my coins come out of the ground here really crusty and dirty.
I have plenty of K55 motors laying around, and I plan on building my own one day, but I am lazy and tired of looking at this jar of dirty money.
If I took it to the bank in out-of-the-ground condition, the tellers would just yell at me, and I already have enough of that from most of the women in my life.
So I got to the store and of course the poor people who had to work on New Years Day did not have a clue, so I walked around till I found them on a shelf in the back.
They had the single 3lb drum for about $49, and the double drum for $89.
What the hell, I treated myself to the double...one for copper, one for clad.
With the discount on the tumbler, the gloves and trowel and sales tax, it came to about $80.
Got home and I threw in some natural looking aquarium gravel I had laying about, a few drops of dish detergent, some water and some coinage in each drum.
The directions say don't overload or under load the drums, so I weighed each one filled and they came in at about 2 1/2 lbs each and started to tumble.
Checked them at about an hour and a bunch of dirty water poured out and the coins looked way cleaner than when they went in.
Probably can put these coins back in circulation at this point.
I reloaded the detergent and water and tumbled for a few more hours and they came out even cleaner.
2 more loads were tumbled for about 6 hours each and came out about the same, so I don't think I will empty the drums and change the water anymore.
Some coins were still dirty, not many, but these were probably the worst ones and I will just throw them in another load to finish them.
This is the money pre cleaning...
and this is the result....
Pennies...
Clad...
I noticed that most of the coins came out with a very dark toning, which I actually like.
Maybe it was the gravel? I thought it had no color...just natural.
Could be my soil does this to them.
Maybe I will take some of the better ones and make a display, or maybe a clock sometime with these.
The drums are rubber, so the process was not very noisy at all.
I kept checking the motor section for overheating, but no issues with that on mine.
Some people report a problem with belts breaking on these Chicago Tools low end units.
Happy to say, no problems with mine after about 18 hours of tumbling.
They also supply about 5 more belts with the unit, and I can always get an o ring from some auto parts store, or RIP says he got some real good ones online here...
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=61674d
As soon as I get through with last years clad, it's off to the bank we go.
Hey, I might even polish a few nice rocks that I find this year.
HH Y'all!
