How to Clean Silver the Easy Way!

hey guys thanks for tuning in I'm gonna show you how the clean silver today I'm gonna clean a silver dime first you need a pot and then presto you need some water and you'll need some aluminum foil the next thing you do is need to make that boil you can see a little bit of bubbles on the left-hand side there I'm gonna go ahead and take some tongs I'm gonna push it down and introduce some of that hot water to the top of the aluminum foil the whole purpose here is we want to make make a little bath like a little hot tub for the for the coin that I'm gonna be bathing so to speak alright so we need hot water boiling water we need aluminum foil and we need some baking so they're good a little baking soda so I am there's your baking soda alright so I made a little bit about there there's Armand Hammer baking soda camera fogged up so there you go gonna dump a little bit more in there there's there's probably cleaning in there right now but don't want 1/2 do things so we fill it in that's that was pretty hot I'm gonna go ahead and take a dime that I found at San Refugio Beach might put a little card up here in the corner so you can link to it so it says 1957 a little circle thing going on in the head there there's the back it's pretty coin so you just drop it in on top of the baking soda bath gonna speed it up here all right so what I'm going to do now is gonna be tossing that coin back and forth making sure it's got equal opportunity for it to have its sides hit the baking soda introduce new hot water in there just in case it wasn't hot enough inside the aluminum foil bath and then put some more baking soda on there because I like doing that that's what you need I don't know what chemical reactions taking place but there is one taking place between the baking soda and the tarnish on the coin and the silver there is breaking it up you can actually see on some of the aluminum foil where the tarnish is coming off and attachment to it when you take it up later it looks pretty nasty so all right says getting a little bit cleaner Black has come off tarnish they're started a little bit brown yeah a little bit more gonna go just for a little bit more in the water and when I feel like I've done it long enough it's been probably about two or three minutes can speeding this up about four times the speed I'm gonna go ahead and pull it out and put it on a little bit of a paper towel there so you got a ring and a couple other times I'm about to work on dry it off and here's the end product so once I get it to that point then I take some toothpaste and I rub it around in a circular motion get all that tarnish off now this part will make the coin collectors cringe because you know it's got some raised lettering and if you rub silver coin that's a soft metal you actually could wear down the lettering and and some of the detail that's on the coin actually would lose some of its value now for me as a metal detectorists I'm not too terribly worried about the the volume my silver point other than the silver that's in it so I'm gonna go ahead and do it anyway the toothpaste is the abrasive material on this one if anything is gonna be abrasive I don't think my finger is terribly abrasive there's a little example of how much cleaner got just in one turn so now I'm going to do it several times by yield see all the times I did it okay I'm gonna do it one more time probably for you gosh shaggy that sucker is all right there's the toothpaste I use it's a travel sized toothpaste Sensodyne so it's for sensitive teeth little cap on there all right so there it is sensitive fresh impact it smells next when you're cleaning up your silver so now I'm gonna show you how I do it I go ahead and squeeze just a wee little bit there you go that's probably too much but that's okay that works I'm gonna rub it in a circular motion I've done both to back in the fret up to this point it's easier to do it with two fingers two hands but you know holding the camera with one hand and spinning with the other keeping it still somewhat difficult you just see how the tarnish just runs right off there you go get it in focus 1957 same time same head issue going on there you can still see the scratch marks in the face I'd imagine that if this was too abrasive you probably would a lot of that woulda worn down but as I tilted the coin yet we still see all the same detail that was in it before just now that you don't have the black background optical obstacles wise you can't see as much as you did with the dark in there but it's all there Steele says Liberty so this is 1957 very clear it's beautiful now so there's really simple process I'll go ahead and make the video pause boom and I'm gonna show you before and after picture so you can see the difference between the two on your huh there you go thank you for watching please subscribe and enjoy your day

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Id: 2AgZOvN81vw

Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 19 2015