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Artificially Aged BYOAC token
Chris:
--- Quote from: M3talhead on February 25, 2005, 11:22:15 am ---I actually like the dipped tokens. As for keeping a set "shiny" you guys might want to look at investing in a coin book. One used for quarters would be just about perfect, and think, if you're a real arcade enthusiast, you could start a collection of not only the different MAME coins, but of Alladin's castle, Timeout, and the rest (if you can find em).
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The brass ones won't stay shiny that way; they'll tarnish from exposure to air. I have some in Air-Tite Model T 25mm capsules. (http://store.yahoo.com/airtiteholders/modelt20mm25mm1.html)
--Chris
Santoro:
Wow, nine months later I find this thread.
siropa:
I haven't tried any of the methods, but if you go to google and enter tarishing brass as a search, there are a pile of hits. sounds like ammonia based cleaners will tarnish easily. easy off oven cleaner is a suggested product for doing it. using some easy off the shelf item like that would make this much faster than dipping in acid. assuming its somewhat fast.
time to raid the cleaning cabinet...
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: telengard on February 25, 2005, 12:24:17 am ---Oh man, did you say Dream Machine tokens? I have been looking for one of those for ages. I grew up inside of the Dream Machine in Methuen Mass. They never seem to pop up on eBay. :(
Are they still around anywhere?
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I think I found some in one of our machines the other day. I'll have to check.
siropa:
I tried using ammonia fuming on a coin. I put about a teaspoon of ammonia in a small plastic container. put a piece of eggcrate in there and put the coin on top of that so it wouldn't be soaked. the first picture is what it looked like right out of the container after 24 hours of fuming. the 2nd pic is what the coin looked like after about 5 seconds of polishing with 0000 steel wool. It looks pretty good, but is just a bit darker than I wanted. I'm going to try to fume it for less time and see how that works out. I never thought it would darken so fast.