I Tried A Dry Coin Tumbler Batch With Yesterday's Finds:cheers:

[John-Edmonton]

Instead of tumbling a batch of coins with hot water and one of the many solution concoctions out there, I figured a dry tumble should also be effective. The coins rubbing against each other plus the removal of the dried sediments makes an excellent mixture for cleaning. After about an hour, I just added hot water several times to the open canister and dumped it out until the water was clean. I then spread out the coins on a newspaper and they came out nice and clean.

A nice alternative to cleaning up a mess batch of coins washed with soap, gravel, kitty litter, ammonia or other common additives.

 

[dgruff]

What kind of tumbler do you have? I've never seen one with an open canister.
And John, I saw in another thread where you used stainless steel shot...where do you get that from? I saw somewhere else where that cleaned silver like no other. I need to get me a serious tumbler sometime. All I have now is a little cheapo.

 

[TRIPLE-SSS]

Hi John,
Do you have any pictures?