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Post by DaveXLT on Jan 21, 2004 21:40:18 GMT -5
I've been offered a Lortone Model 3A (new, with media) for $45 shipped. I've got quite a pile of clad that I've accumulated and I'd like to clean it and cash it in. Looks like they retail for about $80 with the media and go for about 50-60 on eBay. Will this be good enough for cleaning up the cruddy clad? www.lortone.com/tumblers.html |
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Post by GaryC/SanBdno on Jan 22, 2004 0:07:47 GMT -5
Hey DaveXLT, Before you do that do you have a Harbor Freight near you? Its a tool place. They carry most eveything, cheap to mid-priced stuff.
I got my tumbler there for, I think $39.95 in that 3lb. size, I believe. Cleaned up my clad very nicely, if you don't need to do it in one batch. I usually put about forty pennies in at a time. Tumbled them with small pebbles, just enough water to cover and some fine grit. Just don't overload it and in about four or five hours they will have cleaned up enough to go through most coin counters. I had to put some of mine through four or five times, but eventually the coin machine took all of them, except of course the halvsies.
Mine would have been a total loss if I had not cleaned them up. Saved about eight bucks in pennies that were toast. GaryC/SanBdno.
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Post by AlamedaGayle on Jan 22, 2004 0:50:00 GMT -5
Hi Dave. I bought a double barrel heavy duty tumbler from Kellyco small stones included and the "finch" powder. The finch powder seems to work the best and I have experimented. I'm cheap, didn't want to keep buying powder. I just keep buying the powder from them now. Stuff works great. This past weekend I cleaned up 400 coins in 4 hours. 200 silver colored coins in one barrel, 200 pennies in the other. Some silver that just stays ugly goes in parking meters. Let them deal with it. At least I always have meter money. ;D The machines in the link look just fine to me.
Check out Kellyco. A little pricey but I've had mine 4 yrs and no problems. AG
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Post by goldhart on Jan 22, 2004 9:35:08 GMT -5
A rock tumbler is almost standard equipment for cleaning coins. There are several formulas to use in a tumbler over in the members only section under tips. Dan3
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Post by JimClick on Jan 25, 2004 1:29:30 GMT -5
I hate to say this, but I use dirty coins to buy stamps with, ride Bart, buy sodas, and use in parking meters. With business and personal mailing, stamps are always a great purchase. I may be wrong, but cleaning pennies never seemed worth it to me. With time, electricity, and materials, it just seems that there has to be a better way. I have a lot of dirty pennies waiting to find out the better way  . Good luck, JimClick |
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Post by zman on Jan 26, 2004 2:56:17 GMT -5
i use acid. primarily pool acid , this takes care of the corosion, then i run them through the coinstar unit at the local store. i soak them 50/50 with water/ acid overnight, this should do..........zman
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Post by mayumi12 on Feb 6, 2004 10:19:43 GMT -5
I checked, Harbor Freight is online. The 3 lb rock tumbler is only 25.99 plus 3.59 shipping. 44.49 gets you a larger drum. Media is 5.99 for metal stuff. Looks like a great deal.
[ftp]http://order.harborfreight.com/EasyAsk/harborfreight/results.jsp[/ftp]
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Post by cyberdan on Feb 6, 2004 17:28:16 GMT -5
Gary C said: Hey DaveXLT, Before you do that do you have a Harbor Freight near you? Its a tool place.
............. I got my tumbler there for, I think $39.95 in that 3lb. sizeI bought the same one also, for a little less than that, you get what you pay for. I had to drill out the motor mount holes because it was too far from the barrel shaft pully. Had to move it over 1/4". With the supplied belts it would barely turn. Then the belts would burn out and break. While I was hunting in a totlot I saw a girls ponytail rubberband. It was the kind that did not have a metal connector to form it into a loop. The second I saw it I thought about my "brand new broken tumbler" and put it in my "good finds" pouch. Well, it worked so well (and still does) I have tumbled at least 30 lbs (in one pound batches) so far. Here is how I clean my coins. www.westcoasters.org/tricks/clean.htm |
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Post by goldhart on Feb 7, 2004 11:26:48 GMT -5
Hey Cyberdan that was a cool page. I am going to post it over on the links page. Dan3
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Post by Michael in Monrovia on Feb 7, 2004 19:10:29 GMT -5
Cyberdan! That was a great lesson - thanks a lot! Makes me want to get a tumbler for all my clad.  HH, Michael in Arcadia |
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Post by MantecaRay on Feb 10, 2004 23:06:27 GMT -5
My local coinstar likes my dirty clad just fine! ;D
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Post by Boots on Feb 14, 2004 0:24:41 GMT -5
Hey Ray,, the coinstar might like it,, but I would like to see the guys face when he pulls out those brown quarters and dimes.. LOL,,,
HH,
Boots
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Post by cyberdan on Feb 20, 2004 14:47:54 GMT -5
My local coinstar likes my dirty clad just fine! ;D I am too cheap to use those machines, hate giving them 10% of my hard earned coins. A teller at my local bank voulenterred to run my CLEAN coins through his sorter for no charge. He still works there but everytime I have the coins he is not in & visa versa. One day we will get those turned in, over $250 worth I am sure. |
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Post by Redding on Feb 24, 2004 16:48:13 GMT -5
I just went to Harbor Freight and got the 3 LB tumbler. They are on sale for $19.95....at least at the one here in (insert my name).
I went to the site that cyberdan gives the tips on for cleaning coins in this tumbler and they're running now. I find shallow clad just fine but no silver or coins over about 2 inches.
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. Good luck, JimClick
