Restoration of 120 year old Coca-Cola bottle! How I clean antique bottles with acid and tumbling!
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2022
- Restoration of 120 year old Coca-Cola bottle! How I clean antique bottles with acid and tumbling!
In this video I break down my method for restoring a 1902 Coca-Cola Bottle to its former glory! Antique glass can be worth a lot of money but is extremely hard to clean and restore! These antique bottles turn our great after a few tricks!
#cocacola #restoration #beforeandafter 
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A lot of people ask why we don’t show our finds cleaned up after every hunt….. I hope this answers your question lol. I do this with almost every bottle we find so it’s a very long process but it makes our bottles look so much better than a quick rinse with a garden hose! Hope y’all enjoyed and thanks for always supporting the channel!
Keep me updated on your tumbler I'm saving my allowance the wife gives me to be one of the first to purchase one!!!
(This is Tom, not Sandra.)
Great video, sir!! Those bottles look fantastic and almost brand new. Thank you for preserving the past by cleaning these classic COKE bottles and bringing them back to their original lustre!!!! I love the older drink bottles....up to the 1960's, that is. Again, great job, sir!! Thank You!! (Tom)
They look 100 per cent better. Great job
Very cool Brandon! When you said "drop them in the bucket"...my heart skipped a bit even though I knew you'd never really DROP them but they did turn out awesome!! Now, I do hope when you find your Coke hutch, I hope you'll show that cleaning!!! Take care, be safe and God bless!
Sometimes I enjoy a game of throw the 100 year old bottle into a bucket but that’s always off camera 😂😂 only kidding!
Very informative about cleaning your finds, keep them coming
Those bottles look amazing, Brandon. Your cleaning method seems to work very well!💖
Very cool Brandon. I can definitely speak to muratic acid, since I have been servicing swimming pools for 30 years. You definitely don't want to get it on your skin, and definitely don't want to breathe it in. I have done both many times and it's no fun. Great video keep up the great work. 👍
Thanks for showing us the Cleaning of the Coke Bottles ! We also know to cut off 3mm Copper Wire to 3-4mm long and have the Bottle filled with that "Copper Shot" to 1/3 full and add Water to just above the Copper Shot Level ! Now to put Your Hand over the Opening and start shaking Up - Down and Side to Side and all our Bottles came out clean - but not the Scratches as we don't have a Tumbler ! Just another way to clean the Inside of Bottles ! Nice Video and many Cheers from us in Australia!!!!
That’s the same method I used before tumbling. I just love the shine that a tumbler brings back to a bottle though.
@@adventurearchaeology Yes - Scratches are gone !!!!
When I found your profile I really enjoyed it, and I have been a subscriber ever since. Keep making awesome videos!
Awesome Brandon!!! What a great idea for a video. I have watched for years and have seen you touch on the high points many times on cleaning bottles. Thank you for this in depth look at the process, and yes I too would have cried had you broken the bottle with the garden hose. Thanks for taking us along as always my friend.
Thank you for sharing the process Brandon!
That's pretty darn cool. Thanks for sharing.
Beautifully done ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Great work. They look awesome!
Thanks for sharing❤
Also use the muriatic acid in old gas tanks to help restore them it takes the rest out of the inside of them and then you can line them.
I’ve got a couple motorcycle tanks laying around I may try that on!
Very interesting and informative, thanks for sharing
Thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you sharing your process with us.
I need to try this out
Thank you for showing how to clean them.
EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! YOUR A AWESOME TEACHER!!!
This was definitely informative and good A +
Thanks for sharing another great video 👍
Fascinating. "Definietly a labor of love" indeed!
This was a awesome video totally enjoyed it
Well done Brandon!
Awesome Brandon. Amazing transformation. Congrats on your success and can't wait to see your finished product.
Great video!! You have really got it down to a science. Can’t wait to see the tumbler you’ve been working on.
Is very interesting thank you for sharing
No problem!
Very,very cool,great workmanship
Thank you so much for showing this process! I've always wondered how these bottles end up looking so nice. 🙂
You put the effort in , you deserve everything you find 👍 thanks for the schooling
Both of them look really good. Thanks for giving us a lesson on how to clean them up. Great video!
Thank you for showing how this is done. It’s wonderful. The difference is amazing.
Very informative video!! Thank you for sharing!! They really looked amazing when you were done.
"A labor of love"!!!! Good description of your occupation 💖🤓...,
Amazing process! I do love antique glass, and have a soda pop and medicine bottle collection of my own, but I never knew how to clean them.
Found a tan straight side in the creek last month. I'll use this method to clean it up. Thanks
Awesome job 👍🤓👍❤️. Can't wait to see the final product of the bottle tumbler!! Keep up the great work, and keep passing on your Imformative videos and thanks for sharing. Much Love to you and yr family from here in Michigan
Oh wow Braden, that is so cool. What a difference it makes going through the process of making them look almost new. I’m truly impressed. I just think it’s awesome at what you do in finding these jewels.
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Thumbs up Brandon hope to see you again. Thanks for all your advice
Thanks Jimmy!
They were up to their necks in cocaine and acid but Brandon turned them around and I’m happy to say they’ve remained clean till this day😢🍻
LOL! 😂😂😂
I always wondered about this! Thanks for the video, very cool! Now get back out on the hunt! :)
I use a product called Acid Magic, a " Muriatic equivalent" from City Mill hardware. I've had some fabulous cleans, and other less so. Painted bottles are a crap shoot. I made copper gravel with wire and wire cutters that I use from time-to-time.shaking it inside bottles or scrubbing with a rag.. I use my judgment cleaning, and haven't really wrecked anything.
Nice 😎✌🏻
Very interesting 🤔
I was just telling my wife the other day how I wished you'd do some educational non-creekwalking videos, and you delivered!
Man this was a very educational video! As a old bottle collector the muradic acid is a game changer.. didn't know this trick! Thanks! I do have the acid already because I use it for gold recovery from electronics. I also use plain Ole peroxide with the acid to induce oxygen.. you might want to try that with the acid bath. 😎
they look great brandon. never found a straight side coke yet.
great job friend, this is very interesting to see.
That does look like a lot of work but it's worth it. I know it's exciting for you to see the end result
Brandon , just a heads up on that ladybug . I live in Gadsden and a few years ago my girlfriend's house was swarmed with ladybugs around this time of year . She was cleaning up dozens of dead ladybugs inside her house every day and had no idea where they were coming from . One day while I was picking up some pine bark that had fallen off of a dead pine tree before I mowed . I looked closely at the tree and began pulling back the bark . There were hundreds of ladybugs living there . I cut down the tree and she never had another problem . If it becomes a problem for you then get rid of any dead pine trees close to your house .
When we first moved into our house 7 years ago it was swarmed with them! The next year they went away and never came back! It was very odd to say the least.
😮Wow!That's CRAZY 🤪 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
My very first bottle I found is a Coke Cola from City Bottle Works Lufkin Texas from 1905.
Brandon , thanks for sharing . I was watching another channel where these guys found 15 unopened hutch bottles under a tree stump at the edge of a river . None of them were cokes but they were concerned that the government may get involved because of the possibility of cocaine inside the bottles . The contents were different colors which could have been the different flavors available .
Yah those guys actually contacted me for advice and said if it wasn’t for the channel
They would’ve never looked there! Pretty cool
To see awesome finds from newly interested folks!
Great video! I was wondering how to do that? 👍👍
Amaze Balls
another goodun !
10:16 I'm glad I found this video. I have be collecting bottles for years but I do have a question about a milk bottle that was given to me recently. I've got it cleaned up the best I can but it's has a white discoloration on the inside that I assume is from sitting in water for a long time. My question is, what is the best way(if any) to clean it. Didn't know if I should try to get a tumbler or if the acid would do.
That was cool! I love seeing that process bring those historic bottles almost back to their former glory. Great video Brandon! Healing energy to Miranda?( your wife)
Thanks Paige! She has a MRI today and that will tell what her future holds!
Very nice to see the cleanup process. Still wondering:
What would the Coke looked like on a store shelf?
Was there a paper label?
How much did a coke cost in 1903?
Comments kind of sus .confused at every single comment it is just someone saying wow this is an amazing video I think my life has changed forever
Yours is the only confusing comment? What are you even talking about?
Try a Bicycle stainless spoke for getting the inside, maybe easier to handle for you. There are different lengths you can get. Gi to a real Bicycle shop! Thanks from a COLD NW Montana🎸🎸
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Will the acid help with scale build up or sickness or will only tumbling resolve those issues?
Nice job Brandon! How’s your wife doing with her foot? I bet she can’t wait to get back in the creeks with you! Have a good one bro 😎
Slowly but surely getting better!
I've got a question, when putting bottles through a tumbler you mentioned it takes a layer off the glass. Is it ever the case that the embossing can be effected by that, like removed possibly?
If you use the wrong media or cutter it is absolutely a possibility. 1200 grit is a slow cutter that helps prevent that from happening but you definitely do not want to forget that they are running on a tumbler and leave it on for weeks haha!
A-Fn-mazing!
Yee Haw by wash your dirty glass!!
RED WHITE AND BLUE NECK
a Thursday video ideal! will there be one tomorrow Friday in the uk
Sure will! Digging!
@@adventurearchaeology love yor digging vids mate, keep the good content coming i watch ur content every week respect to you and ur family and friends, from Anglesey north wales Britain
have you ever found any brown coke bottles.
What grit did you use for these? 600, 1000? You mentioned carbide so I’m thinking 600. 1000 is aluminum oxide correct? They did come out much cleaner.
I’ve seen a change in where lowes and home depot keep the muriatic acid. I used to see it in paints. I haven’t seen it there in a while. It has been moved outside in the gardening area. Maybe a new law not sure if it applies in every state. I only mentioned because not many of the employees seem to know where it is. I hate getting the runaround. When you run that wire brush in the drill use a cream made from the polishing powder. It works for me. Just be careful of the overspray it should not get in the eyes.
Thanks for the Info. Last jug I bought at Lowe’s it was in the cleaning supply section here in Bama.
It's used on the soil for plants like blueberries.
@@fishinwidow35 I’ve gotten it from a pool supplier one time. It is expensive there, used in swimming pools too.
Hey Brandon, do you ever sell any of your finds?
We sell duplicates that we find on our Ebay store. The link to the store is in all of our video descriptions 😎
Whereas normal household bleach (hydrochloric acid) is 3-4%, muriatic acid is 14 - 37% industrial bleach.
What are those straight side Coke bottles worth after that detailed clean up ? Just a little curious, Thank You Brandon, Well Done !
I'm not the expert that Brandon is but it is dependent on the condition , color , and where it was made ( rarity ) . The Birmingham Al. bottle I would estimate between $30.00-50.00 . You can check E-Bay for sold listings to get a better idea .
Nailed it!
I had a Taledega Springs straight side I sold for $300.
@@Wandering_Alabama1819 Wow , I've never seen one . I wonder how many still exist .
hey Brandon, i’ve got a couple of questions. Do you want to pour the entire container in there or delude it with water? also, how long do you want it to sit?
I use it a gallon at a time no diluting necessary. Usually 30 mins is long enough for a soak.
Hi Brandon, what is the name and brand of Acid you use to get those bottle so clean? Always watch your channel here in Wiltshire South West UK.
It was the cheapest muriatic acid I could find at the local Hardware store haha!
@adventurearchaeology Thanks for the reply, will have to try the same on the bottles I find. 👍👍
Just to confirm, you don't dilute the acid with water? (I'm hoping that's correct because diluting it, as so many people seem to do, only takes it's strength away.)
Will straight muriatic acid hurt the label on ACL bottles?
Hallo ihr da drüben 😃. Mit was für Mittel 🧪🧽 reinigt ihr die 🧴🍶🍾 bottles???🇩🇪. Bernd Frankenland
Thank you i have 3000 bottles
Bro, keep the beard!
It’s cold enough to wear now for sure 😅
Did you find any bottles that you can sell?
Both of these were duplicates so they were sold. We keep a few on our EBay Store.
If only the clear coke bottle had a town on it. It could be from a small town, but we will never know. On that note, I wonder how many unknown druggists there are that used slick bottles.
More than We would like to imagine I’m sure!
Pop's here. Once these are cleaned up, what's the value.
fill with cola and drink again after 120 years...
Rubbing alcohol..coarse sea salt..hot water.Shake..let soak and shake.Much healthier and cheaper!
Dude, You're pushing my mom button...You should be wearing gloves and safety goggles at all times! And when storing acid you need holes in the lid to prevent it from blowing up.
Ok, mom rant is over.
Cool finds thou.
Yeah that's when coke had cocaine in it