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Jason in Enid said:Don't laugh, that will work once you get it stabilized. The carbolic acid in the Coke will help dissolve the encrustation.
The bottle Lemon juice works just fine, drop a coin in (one at a time) give it a 24hr soak, and then work at the crud with a cotton bud, change the juice every day. For the coins that are stuck together, boiling them will separate them.Thanks!
and this will work for sea / salt encrusted coins?
do I use fresh lemon juice/ and do I change it out for fresh so often or leave it?
where in the UK are you?
The bottle Lemon juice works just fine, drop a coin in (one at a time) give it a 24hr soak, and then work at the crud with a cotton bud, change the juice every day. For the coins that are stuck together, boiling them will separate them.
I from North Yorkshire in the UK
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Captain,
The first Cardinal Rule for conservation of shipwreck finds, is to quickly submerse them in fresh water and change the fresh water every day or so! This is to leach out the salt from the encrustations and stabilize the items from further damage. Some folks place the items in the toliet tank (not the bowl) because the fresh water gets replaced several or more times a day.
Frank
Yes just across the river, Ingleby..Great advice, I have a good friend in Yarm, any where near?
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Hey BVI,
I hope you enjoy these photos of the sewer pipe wreck 500 yrds from my house. I have not found any coins yet but man alive there are loads of sewer pipes as it was on its way to Haiti loaded down, so you are not the only person on this site finding sewer pipes, so there.
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Hey
get your flippers on and get out there!!!!
Spoke to some Haitian pals who KNOW this boat and say there is lots of "stuff" by the bilge pump?? was hidden away so did not need to be declared?
go get it!!!
Warehouse,
You appear like a nice person so I am going to cut you some slack but please, please remember not to encourage either huntsman ( spends all his time hunting for socks in his underwear drawer) or BVI (who puts his coins in his buddy's aquarium to grow coral on them)
If you encourage them they then think they are comedians and we all suffer, so join me and challenge them to find more stuff and do less comedy..��
Where's the DONT like button on this F***** site