whats your clad cleaning tips?

My clad cleaning techniques are as follows.........
Roll them up (mud and all) and dump them at a bank and walk away with a smile knowing that someone has to touch those coins.
Dump them in a coinstar.
Plug them into a VLT at a casino and them immediately cash out. Our casino's are run by the government which makes it even better that those crusty coins end up there.
If there's a business that has treated you poorly in the past, that's a great place to dump those rolls.
When all else fails, there's the drink machines.
O.K. I do clean some clad..... I clean the $1 and $2 coins if I don't have enough for a roll. Since they're nickle or steel based, I take an SOS pad and scrub them.
Cleans them up nicely.
I love it when I go somewhere and get my own crusty change back again! Small world.
Cheers,
Dave.
 

I have used them in vending machines and car wash. I got some crusties in change the other day and the wife said " look like you got you coins back" lol
 

The way I clean my clad is in a rock tumber, I also hunt for agates and tumble some of them, the fairburn agates don't get tumbled though. I save up the clad until I have enough to fill one of my small tumblers about half way, I add water so that its just above the coins, add a tbs of vinegar and a small shot of dish soap. The vinegar expedites the cleaning, the soap breaks up the crud and keeps it in suspension as an abrasive. I run it for 6 hours or so and it cleans them up pretty good. It will even knock the blisters off of the zincolns.
 

Fabbr said:
The way I clean my clad is in a rock tumber, I also hunt for agates and tumble some of them, the fairburn agates don't get tumbled though. I save up the clad until I have enough to fill one of my small tumblers about half way, I add water so that its just above the coins, add a tbs of vinegar and a small shot of dish soap. The vinegar expedites the cleaning, the soap breaks up the crud and keeps it in suspension as an abrasive. I run it for 6 hours or so and it cleans them up pretty good. It will even knock the blisters off of the zincolns.
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I will give that a try... thanks
 

Be careful if you go that route, lemon juice works good too if you leave em too long depending on prior corrosion they can come out unplated and look fake, I use the tumbler and it doesn't make them look like copper blanks, experiment with all suggestions, the mixture/ratio is unimportant vinegar/salt/ketchup/lemon juice etc is fairly aggressive but fast
 

History_Digger said:
How much of each?
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I never measure but depending on how many coins at once, like a cup of distilled white vinegar and a tsp salt. I only do this for really junky clad that is heavily corroded, as it is a quick fix. If you are concerned about it damaging the coins, you can soak them for like 5-10 minutes and rinse them while using a toothbrush to remove the junk.
 

I ruined a few coins with the salt and vinegar, be careful. I would go the rock tumbler route if you are determined to clean them up.
 

Dimes Nickels and Quarters all just get washed off and used in some sort of candy slot machine. Pennies get tumbled and rolled. I work in a machine shop and get some tumble deburring media that they are throwing away after it is too small for them to use. Put the media and the coins in a small shaking tumbler for a few hours with some soap or vinegar what ever I feel like that day.
 

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