Bangbang Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Does anyone do this. I was thinking about doing this with some "worthless" coins just to see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 I was thinking about doing this too.... Where do you get acetone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 I was thinking about doing this too.... Where do you get acetone? Local hardware stores like Home Depot, etc. The one near me only carries it in the gallon size. I'm looking for a more practical size (haven't check Lowe's yet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 50cents Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Worthless? Copper or silver? What do you want to remove? You can get it in the hardware dept. of most retailers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 50cents Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Local hardware stores like Home Depot, etc. The one near me only carries it in the gallon size. I'm looking for a more practical size (haven't check Lowe's yet). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wal Mart has it in a quart size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Wal Mart has it in a quart size. Never thought about Wal-Mart and I was just there yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 Caution: While you can use acetone on almost all metals, stay away from zinc and copper. They give some kind of odd reactions. Perhaps alunimum too but I am not too sure. But for nickel and other hard metals, it shouldn't be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 I tried this tonight. It helped on some not so bad proofs, but it barely improved the real bad proofs. Did no harm that I could tell though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conder101 Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 Acetone is just an organic solvent. It will remove any oils or grease from the surface of the coins but other than that it won't do anything "wonderful" to the coin. It won't affect toning or tarnish. Some people say it can change the color of copper but I have never had any bad reactions except on coins with some forms of artificial coloring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangbang Posted November 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 Caution: While you can use acetone on almost all metals, stay away from zinc and copper. They give some kind of odd reactions. Perhaps alunimum too but I am not too sure. But for nickel and other hard metals, it shouldn't be a problem. Thats interesting because aluminum pwder is used in explosives. Works great for making an M-80........I am talking about the real thing not that crap they sell at fireworks shops. Aluminum powder is also very toxic. So maybe I can figure out away to drop an aluminum coin into some acetone by remote control to see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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