Bent Al Token

[cambria09]

Hello All. OK I looked at all the forums and decided this is the place to start. I found an Al Palmolive soap token a few days ago but its bent. Is there any way to straighten this thing? Thanks and good luck.

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[wheatfinder13]

I found a token that was bent in half and I put a pice of cloth between a pair of pliers and bending them back into position and then wrap it in cloth as not to scratch it and hammer it completely flat with a hammer

 

[Tnmountains]

Those palmolive tokens are soft. I have one folded over and think it may break if I tried to straighten it.Once the composition of that type of metal changes in the bend it could break. You might try heat and gently flattening it back out. It may not survive it or it may lay back down flat. They are zinc? Yours does not seem as pitted as mine so what wheat finder above said might work. Let us know.

 

[watercolor]

Wow, that's REALLY bent.

As Tnmountains suggested, you may try annealing the aluminum with heat to soften the metal (re-distributing the grain of the metal)
so it will un-bend more easily without cracking. . . VERY dicy though as it's REALLY folded over.

To be honest, I'd leave it as is and not take the chance.