I’ve been down the ultrasonic route and was let down even with a professional grade unit. You have to put a couple of drops of Dawn in the water. I have found that just letting them soak in distilled water for a long time (a week or more) with a water change every other day works well enough. And NO rubbing. This will lift off 90% of the dried boogers off. Oh, letting them soak in the sun helps too.
The jet setting on my garden hose works wonder. Never needed to bring out the pressure washer yet. 😊 I put the dirty coin on a rubber mat on the lawn to prevent them from moving and scratching when spraying water jet directly on it. It cleans in seconds.
I am comparing apples to oranges here, but before I retired I was among many other things the armorer for the Sheriff's Office. I had a professional-grade ultrasonic cleaner. After working with it for some time I found that I could clean weapons quicker and better manually than with the ultrasonic cleaner.
Put some baking soda and vinegar in there with the water and some crumpled aluminium foil, make sure the silver is touching the tinfoil. works like a charm. Also you can get rid of milk spots by using regular jewlery wipes
Baking soda is an abrasive, wouldn't recommend that. But vinegar could be worth a try. However, I wouldn't do anything like this to the silver proofs. I'd use a coin cleaner like ms70 or ezest to clean those.
I've had an ultrasonic cleaner for years, & it even featured in a video once. The only downside I would point out with them, is that if you have a toned coin and you put it in the ultrasonic cleaner it will lift off the crud great, but then expose the untoned areas leaving the toning looking patchy. I usually use hot water in mine Sal, and like you found out, you need to run them through several times.
Highly recomend using distilled water in sonicator to avoid a ring of mineral forming that will be hard to remove & reduce sonicators efficiency over time. Also do not put directly in bath use a beaker so you can change fluid and not contaminate the bath. Fill to mclose to max line for best power.If level low you can damage the sonication generator
I have found one thing that does remove milk spotting on Silver it is weimans silver wipes, I had a tube of 20 new Britannia and 18 of them had major milk spotting I gently soaked each one with the wipes gently wiping the milk spots took like about 5 to 10 minutes to do each coin but it looks like there's no damage to the coins, milk spots are gone, though I probably would only use them on already shiny coins
Super cool topic Sal ! Any chance you could do another video where you clean a pile of "bagged", dirty constitutional silver ? I think these are the most common form, and plentiful as well. I, for one, would buy that device just for cleaning stacks of pre-1965 quarters ..... as you no doubt know, these are generally covered by a generous layer of caked dirty accumulated over decades of wear. That video would answer the question of "how much time would it take me to properly clean, say, a 40-roll of average wear quarters. Just a suggestion, of course.... But I wonder if any more viewers would be interested in such video ?
Harbor Freight has a similar item that I’ve had my eye on. Now that I’ve seen you use, try and demonstrate. I’m going to get one to run my coins thru. Fun! They’re inexpensive through harbor freight.
Coins in capsules that are set with circular foam tend to have foam stick to the coin when left in the capsule over the years. Hmmm I wonder if anyone tried removing the residual foam with this sonicator ?
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Good Afternoon Sir, I've considered purchasing one of these ultrasonic cleaners but I was not ever sure to use it for my coins, think I'll still wait. Thank You Sir.
Its kind of annoying how you kept talking about how you could run it a few more times and it would probably get the grime off. Yet you only ran things one time... the cycles are only a few minutes each.
Okay seriously. I was looking up ultrasonic cleaning for my generator's carburetor. One of your videos popped up in the list. Am I going to find a salivate metals BBQ recipe also? What else have you done videos on?
With the PVC maybe you could remove the stuff by running them under a tap with some decent pressure seeing as it's been loosened up like. But maybe right away after the sonicing.
Interesting, but I'm not completely convinced. I'd like to know if it would remove blackened silver. I have a 1921 peace that was improperly taken care of. It has great details, but is littered with black spots. I only paid $35 for it because it was so ugly. If it can remove those, it would pay for itself.
Odd. Usually they have a tray the stuff sits in. Think it does a better job with one. Kinda needs to be suspended in the water or at least from the bottom
Use plastic basket to avoid scratches♥️😺. Use distilled water only ever. These things shake your coins. Tarnish is Silver Oxide. or Cupric Oxide. Jewelers in flea markets will usually do this for free with steam. Note: A grading co. may grade these as cleaned or details cutting value substantially, because they appear to be. Tarnish in denticals and valleys. These are jewelry cleaning machines. Not coin cleaners. ❤️🐥
The best solution for silver, which cleans perfectly in a few seconds, without damaging the silver: baking soda powder, we put a spoon in the hand, we add a few drops of water to make a paste, and we rub gently the coin, masterful result in a few seconds, and it costs almost nothing!
90% silver coins should not be cleaned; horrible video to be encouraging people to clean their 90% constitutional coins. So many ruined coins by people who make normal coins look fake. A better video would be to encourage people to NOT clean their coins, which devalues them
My method: Straight Dawn dish soap using your fingers only. Get the blow dryer out and blow dry the coin never rub it with a paper towel. Then you use connoisseurs silver dip. It's in the red container. It goes in for 10 seconds and then gets rinsed and dried with the blow dryer. Done ✅ 🪙 😊
Can you get 1000 Oz comex bar in there, I usually just take them all up to the carwash spray washing with the heavy-duty power soap wash 🧼🫧🧼🫧🧼 LOL 😮😮😮❤ but I do hand dry them I wished I had 1000 Oz bar LOL excellent video Sal 2:12
I’ve been down the ultrasonic route and was let down even with a professional grade unit. You have to put a couple of drops of Dawn in the water.
I have found that just letting them soak in distilled water for a long time (a week or more) with a water change every other day works well enough. And NO rubbing. This will lift off 90% of the dried boogers off. Oh, letting them soak in the sun helps too.
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I run mine at 60 degrees C, 30% white vinegar and 70% water. Add in a tablespoon of dawn detergent. I run it for 30 minutes. Works amazingly well.
has anyone tried sending in the coins to a grading service after doing this, to see what they can figure out?
I only clean coins with a wire brush. I want to clean away 4 to 5 grades
I never clean any coins, but I will say that machine did not damage the coins. When talking about cleaning coins, that’s saying a lot. Neat product.
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Use the basket and add vinger or dawn to distilled water base.
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The jet setting on my garden hose works wonder. Never needed to bring out the pressure washer yet. 😊
I put the dirty coin on a rubber mat on the lawn to prevent them from moving and scratching when spraying water jet directly on it. It cleans in seconds.
lol..I hope youre talking about wheatbacks
I am comparing apples to oranges here, but before I retired I was among many other things the armorer for the Sheriff's Office. I had a professional-grade ultrasonic cleaner. After working with it for some time I found that I could clean weapons quicker and better manually than with the ultrasonic cleaner.
Can I use this thing to clean my toenails?
Nasty!!!!!!!
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Put some baking soda and vinegar in there with the water and some crumpled aluminium foil, make sure the silver is touching the tinfoil. works like a charm. Also you can get rid of milk spots by using regular jewlery wipes
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Baking soda is an abrasive, wouldn't recommend that. But vinegar could be worth a try. However, I wouldn't do anything like this to the silver proofs. I'd use a coin cleaner like ms70 or ezest to clean those.
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I've had an ultrasonic cleaner for years, & it even featured in a video once. The only downside I would point out with them, is that if you have a toned coin and you put it in the ultrasonic cleaner it will lift off the crud great, but then expose the untoned areas leaving the toning looking patchy.
I usually use hot water in mine Sal, and like you found out, you need to run them through several times.
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Highly recomend using distilled water in sonicator to avoid a ring of mineral forming that will be hard to remove & reduce sonicators efficiency over time. Also do not put directly in bath use a beaker so you can change fluid and not contaminate the bath. Fill to mclose to max line for best power.If level low you can damage the sonication generator
I have found one thing that does remove milk spotting on Silver it is weimans silver wipes, I had a tube of 20 new Britannia and 18 of them had major milk spotting I gently soaked each one with the wipes gently wiping the milk spots took like about 5 to 10 minutes to do each coin but it looks like there's no damage to the coins, milk spots are gone, though I probably would only use them on already shiny coins
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Super cool topic Sal ! Any chance you could do another video where you clean a pile of "bagged", dirty constitutional silver ? I think these are the most common form, and plentiful as well. I, for one, would buy that device just for cleaning stacks of pre-1965 quarters ..... as you no doubt know, these are generally covered by a generous layer of caked dirty accumulated over decades of wear. That video would answer the question of "how much time would it take me to properly clean, say, a 40-roll of average wear quarters. Just a suggestion, of course.... But I wonder if any more viewers would be interested in such video ?
I’ve tried a large batch one time. With the length time it took they vibrated against each other and came out etched looking 😢
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What do you think of acetone dipping to clean coins
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Harbor Freight has a similar item that I’ve had my eye on. Now that I’ve seen you use, try and demonstrate. I’m going to get one to run my coins thru. Fun! They’re inexpensive through harbor freight.
Coins in capsules that are set with circular foam tend to have foam stick to the coin when left in the capsule over the years. Hmmm I wonder if anyone tried removing the residual foam with this sonicator ?
Hope to catch you live soon, trying to fix my car myself but now the engine light on....when it rains it pours ! I'm gonna do a video about cleaning copper very soon
You’re supposed to add Silver cleaning solution for better results
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Good Afternoon Sir, I've considered purchasing one of these ultrasonic cleaners but I was not ever sure to use it for my coins, think I'll still wait. Thank You Sir.
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Distilled water and the same as cleansing a watch. This might work better on pre 33 gold imho
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Its kind of annoying how you kept talking about how you could run it a few more times and it would probably get the grime off. Yet you only ran things one time... the cycles are only a few minutes each.
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Hi, I have a commersal unit that I used to cleen carburaters and other thing I use different cleaners for things and like what it dose
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Okay seriously. I was looking up ultrasonic cleaning for my generator's carburetor. One of your videos popped up in the list. Am I going to find a salivate metals BBQ recipe also? What else have you done videos on?
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Hmm, I’ve got an ultrasonic toothbrush that runs at 48hz…may try to rig up a mini version of this and see what happens
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Have you ever tried silver foam with a soft sponge ? Those machines are best for jewellery
Wow that says I can get it for tomorrow!!!! With 10% off coupon
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With the PVC maybe you could remove the stuff by running them under a tap with some decent pressure seeing as it's been loosened up like. But maybe right away after the sonicing.
You might choose distilled water a couple of times to see how that does....
You can clean gold n silver, with a jewelers torch .
The steamer on an espresso machine gets those crevasses pretty good.
Sterilised and cleaned.
Use warm water & a few drops of Jet Dry.
Do you think this would lift finger prints from the coins too?
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FYI it works a lot better if you use cleaning solution for jewelry !!!
How did it work on copper coins?
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No lid?
I use sonic cleaners to clean motorcycle carbs works great
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Interesting, but I'm not completely convinced. I'd like to know if it would remove blackened silver. I have a 1921 peace that was improperly taken care of. It has great details, but is littered with black spots. I only paid $35 for it because it was so ugly. If it can remove those, it would pay for itself.
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Can you put acetone in there?
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Who would have guessed. Good for pistol parts and the like as well. ❤
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SAL I use one of these Ultrasonic clearers for carbs . For rebuilds :-))
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Put them in the plastic basket, so both sides are open to cleaning and so the coin doesn't get damaged sliding on the bottom
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Maybe add just a small amount of ezest?
No. That's for toning not general dirt.
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good video... In a month or two, as you use the product, can you do a follow-up video... thx
Distilled water may be best.
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You need to add some dishwasher detergent...
Odd. Usually they have a tray the stuff sits in. Think it does a better job with one. Kinda needs to be suspended in the water or at least from the bottom
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Use Iso instead of water
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Use Mr.clean with water to get that stuff sparking in the ultrasonic cleaner.
Aren't you supposed to use the basket
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PVC haze disappears instantly with a Q-tip wetted with silver dip.
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This thing would be awesome for cleaning my old Gillette razors and glasses!! I'm getting one, very cool!! 🤠
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Ok. That's good to see.
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My sonic cleaner had a solution that goes into the water
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This was interesting. Thank you.
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Very interesting 👍 maybe do a follow-up video using it but adding some dawn or vinegar to the water.
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Very interesting. Definitely something to look into. Makes me worry about my coins though
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Oh and most importantly plz dry them coins properly, very important
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Yo forgot to use the basket buddy.
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Nice cleaning machine thank you 👍🏻💪🏻
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Seems like war nickels could use a sonic bath!
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Good one today Sal. Interesting Topic 🤘
To bad it dont work on Milk Spots, that would be Cool
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Great video
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LASTERRRRRRRRR :-))
It puts the lotion in the basket
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Unless you’re an auto mechanic, there’s no excuse for dirty fingernails.
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Only vehicle mechanics and Indians from India are allowed to to have dirty fingernails.😂
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Use plastic basket to avoid scratches♥️😺. Use distilled water only ever. These things shake your coins. Tarnish is Silver
Oxide.
or Cupric Oxide. Jewelers in flea markets will usually do this for free with steam. Note: A grading co. may grade these as cleaned or details cutting value substantially, because they appear to be. Tarnish in denticals and valleys. These are jewelry cleaning machines. Not coin cleaners. ❤️🐥
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oh I've tried this product but my toast keeps coming out all soggy.
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🤔 So THAT'S where that humming sound is coming from after my Girlfriend locks me out of the bedroom 😳!!!!
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😂😂😂 your voice sounds like voice of president of Ukraine.
It might be better to use distilled water which has no minerals
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1st
Sounds like a swarm of bee's
I like my old coins to look old…
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Clean em till it hrz
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I gotta'a say that toaster makes some very rude noises. Sounds like me after a really spicy curry.
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Next time use some stomach acid instead of water in there! 😉
The best solution for silver, which cleans perfectly in a few seconds, without damaging the silver: baking soda powder, we put a spoon in the hand, we add a few drops of water to make a paste, and we rub gently the coin, masterful result in a few seconds, and it costs almost nothing!
Excellent point. You can put a little in the water with this device and it might work even better.
These things dont work that well. Save your money people
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Next time when your try'n to plug a product try to keep those knees out of shot. ( p.s. I take the piss with love and multiple beers. ) Cheers.
Ok, now we're just getting corny
Lol, I did a review for them. 🤣🤣 Free ultra-sonic cleaner sure why not!
Dude all I did was read your prescription when I was scrolling through RUclips vids... make me cringe this early in the morning shame on you😂
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Sounds like a machine that just makes long fart noises.
I'll stick with my manual method.
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Why isn't there a ground connection on this thing? ;_;
🤨 I never thought you'd stoop so low as to Money Laundering!!!😠😡!!!
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Money wasted. Now I know
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How to destroy your coins..step one, clean them......
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🤢🤮🤮 those razors...
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90% silver coins should not be cleaned; horrible video to be encouraging people to clean their 90% constitutional coins. So many ruined coins by people who make normal coins look fake. A better video would be to encourage people to NOT clean their coins, which devalues them
My method:
Straight Dawn dish soap using your fingers only. Get the blow dryer out and blow dry the coin never rub it with a paper towel. Then you use connoisseurs silver dip. It's in the red container. It goes in for 10 seconds and then gets rinsed and dried with the blow dryer.
Done ✅ 🪙 😊
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That would be nice for my sterling jewelry. Better than salt, baking soda and foil.
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Can you get 1000 Oz comex bar in there, I usually just take them all up to the carwash spray washing with the heavy-duty power soap wash 🧼🫧🧼🫧🧼 LOL 😮😮😮❤ but I do hand dry them
I wished I had 1000 Oz bar LOL excellent video Sal 2:12
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