Cleaned up the war nickel

[Napa Steve]

About 3 days back I found a corroded war nickel at the beach, it, I could read the mintmark but could not get the date, I looked in the Red book and there was no special errors for the S mintmark war nickel, I decided to tumble it the same way I do with my clad, I ran the tumbler for 24 hours with 3 ammonia changes within that time, I always clean my clad with 100% ammonia and it does the trick, the photos below show the different stages of the cleaning along with a photo of the jewelry mix I use in the tumbler.

 

[exsquid]

Big improvement!!

What medium are you using in your tumbler...?

Nice War nickel!

 

[odave]

Great results Buddy !! And the Nickel looks to be in great shape :beerbuddy:
Great Pic's and find Steve thumbsup01 thumbsup01

 

[Napa Steve]

Big improvement!!

What medium are you using in your tumbler...?

Nice War nickel!

Its just some jewelers mix that I picked up at a jewelry store, I bought a pound of it for 18 bucks, its stainless steel and lasts forever.

 

[Dimeman]

Cleaned up pretty good thumbsup01

 

[jkress]

Wow... huge improvement.

That baby is ready to go in the collection now. :yes:

 

[Toadman]

All 'S' mintmarks are always welcome.. On a war nickle. Even better !!! <: <:

 

[Nitro 54]

Cleaned up good Steve,, :happydance01: :happydance01: now it just need a little silver polish to get rid of that peened look and add a little lustre.. :beerbuddy:

 

[coinnut]

Great job on that nickel. :clapping: I like the mix too. It will last a life time.

 

[giant056]

That baby cleaned up great thumbsup01

 

[zrickkid]

Nice job can you do some of mine.

 

[Poker Jim]

Not a bad result. That salt and sand sure does do a number on those coins. Cool pics.

Poker Jim

 

[Evan/tn]

I need to tumble my clad so bad :bangahead01: :bangahead01:
Nice clean job on the war nik Steve thumbsup01

 

[Napa Steve]

Steve, So you run it with white gravel until the nickel is clean but gray,,,,Then you use the jeweler mix and it shines up as shown? You use ammonia with the gravel too? no water or detergent?

My tax $$$ is due any day now and am getting a tumbler (single or dual jar:huh:thinkingabout.I am getting the one that clevengers detectors sells and he has both single and dual jar tumblers.

Basically I use jeweler mix for the whole process with straight ammonia and no water or soap, I change the dirty ammonia after about an hour, put in clean ammonia and run it for about 4 hours, dump the dirty, put in new ammonia and run it over night, in the morning I get rid of the dirty ammonia one more time and run it with clean ammonia for 10 minutes to give it the shine.

 

[pulltabsteve]

Great job on that nickel. :clapping: I like the mix too. It will last a life time.

You'll need about 30lbs of it for your tumbler George!! rofl Great find and nice cleaning Steve eace: :clapping:

 

[coinnut]

You'll need about 30lbs of it for your tumbler George!! rofl Great find and nice cleaning Steve eace: :clapping:

And 10 gallons of Ammonia lol

 

[coinnut]

What is he using for a tumbler:huh: A Cement Mixer:huh:thinkingabout: rofl

I ordered the dual jar (plus some extra belts for insurance) Thanks for the tips.
I ordered 5 Lbs of stainless media from STM (stainlesstumblingmedia.com) this is fine stuff and ought to get into the tiny area's that need cleaning

now i have to figure how much media to how many coins (don't want to overload the tumbler)hopefully instructions will come with the tumbler and answer this question :shocked01:

I am just cleaning up the coins so i can roll them and take them to the bank thumbsup01

Everything together should be about 2/3 to 3/4 of the barrel. You have to leave enough space for it to tumble properly. And yes the cement mixer is almost ready to roll. Just waiting on some E bay stuff.

 

[mike l]

Nickel came out real nice thumbsup01

 

[russellt]

not a single warnick for russellt....that one turned out good...... mines out there somewhere

 

[cnr_dogs]

Looks good steve I got one that looks real similar may have to throw it in the tumbler Good Job