That so called coin shortage was to get everyone to turn in their change so that banks could remove coins that actually had any value, so that only the newer coins that will rot after a year's time will be the only ones in circulation. If you notice that or not I am not sure, but that's what it was meant to do.
Suggestion: Next time, place all of the jars in an ultrasound bath so that the contents are agitated, rather than just soaking, which would encourage any dirt or corrosion loosened by the liquid to fall away, freeing the layer underneath to come into contact with the liquid. It should also minimize the chances of the surfaces of pennies being occluded by other pennies in the jar.
Vinegar and salt into a jar lightly swush around for three minutes and turn on the cold water and rinse well! also place a small amount of flitz cream on a old clean rag and work the cream into the rag well let it dry somewhat and use the rag to clean up the already three minute coins that Still cannot be read, just enough to be able to read them.Do not over clean it makes the buyer uncomfortable and ruins the coin's natural iridescence! It is better to leave them dirty, However, sometimes the damage is covered by dirt and that is 70 bucks down the drain if the coin is an ms62 instead of an ms68. Of course, all coins will become valuable over time never take the advice of anyone who tells you copper is a waste of time and dimes and nickels are too hard to read! Even tokens are great if they bring back a good memory.I have tokens I still am clueless as to what they are? but that makes me want to keep them even more!
So with the sulfuric acid pennies, zinc is reactive with sulfuric acid which produces zinc sulfate. Sulfuric acid only reacts to copper in high concentrations, and when heated. That's why the solid copper pennies stayed the same, but the copper plated zinc pennies crumbled. They were essentially hollowed out by the acid.
While you're right about the laws governing the destruction, defacement, cementing, and copying of U.S. currency, I'm taking this as a joke anyway. If what you are saying is valid, every child, magician, and artisan that nas torn a dollar bill for a magic trick, smashed a penny in one of those machines, or made a beautiful piece of jewelry from coins is a felon and needs to be reported, prosecuted, and imprisoned to the fullest extent of the law... RIGHT NOW! (eye roll)
@underground leaks 101 The whole law, if read, stresses "fraudulently" in every warning sentence. No fraud intent, you can do anything you want. Frauds: Zinc-plating pennies to pass for dimes in a handful of coins. Restamping nickels to look like quarters. Hollowing out silver coins before spending them. Inking Zeroes onto the corners of a $2 bill to look like a $20.
gotta say, i love how A LOT of you make fun of Tyler for being experimental despite him not being a SCIENCE MAJOR, yet you still watch and comment on the videos which makes him enough money (and profit) to fund this content for OUR entertainment. please continue, these videos will keep coming more than a sloot on xnxxx
@underground leaks 101 Man you are dense, it’s not illegal to destroy US currency, you can do whatever you want to it as long as you have no fraudulent intent with it, IE melting it and selling the raw materials. Please do some research before embarrassing yourself especially when his main goal is to clean them not even destroy them in the first place
Jason metal prep. Soak for 1 1/2 min. Then add baking soda. Agitate for 30- 40 sec. Rinse and clean with Dawn dish soap. Rinse and soak in jet dry and water for 10 sec. Rinse and pat dry thoroughly. NOTE: Pennie’s that have sticky stuff should be cleaned with soap and water first. The Pennie’s will look very nice. All copper Pennie’s will still be a different shade of color. You can pick out older from newer without a doubt by color. Long term effect unknown yet. Never use steel wool. That will contaminate the coin unless it’s copper wool. And that will scratch the surface badly. Dont do this.
I remember you posted a picture of a container and we were supposed to guess what was going inside it. The person said vinegar and pennies. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO!!🥴
Dude i love your channel. Only thing i kinda wish for, though, is you expand these tests. There are so many other liquids to try. I could easily see like 20 or more. It’d actually be super cool to see. I hope you could retest some stuff, like this one. In any case, love your channel man
I know this is gonna sound time consuming but next time you should take pictures of the control before and then take pictures of each control afterwards so that we can visibly see any differences. Great video, nonetheless!
There's another channel on UA-cam that used a very concentrated vinegar and salt solution that worked incredibly well in cleaning pennies almost effortlessly. As a kid I recall cleaning them with a paste of baking soda and water. You had to do some rubbing but it got them quite clean and shiny. I agree with another post here that mentioned trying Barkeeper's Friend, that stuff is quite an effective cleaner, I've used it on copper bottom pans with great success, or even Bon Ami may work well. I think the key is using some elbow grease, rather than just letting them sit in various liquids, which likely wasn't as effective as using the solutions to rub and polish them clean. Just my 2 cents 😉
@@valenjessy87 I'm watching a lot of restoration videos and when there is a lot of patina on brass or copper they wrap it ketchup and then remove it with a towel
@@valenjessy87 no, and i dont think you actually know what you are talking about. The acetic acid in the ketchup just reacts with the copper/zinc oxides to form the respective acetate salts which are water soluble
1M(molar) just means that there is 1 mole of chemical per 1L. Molarity is used to determine potency of the solution. Moles are how chemists compare number of molecules of chemicals even though they have different chemical weights. Example: 1 mole of C is 12.01amu but 1 mole of Na(sodium) is 22.99amu. They weigh different but have the same number of molecules.
I just can't imagine Tyler without his garage and his weird but cool things he does. I've watched this channel grow over the years and one thing i love about Tyler is he's still the same and he hasn't changed at all. I also love that he's still a nice guy a really nice guy most UA-camrs turn into morons when they start getting bigger but with Tyler he hasn't at all.
10 seconds in and I’ll just say it, having been in JROTC and ROTC in college, copper shines up the best with lighter fluid. Lighter fluid is the best, hopefully you use that as a tester.
0:49 for me it's called "I need to work 10 hours on 5 hours of sleep and if I don't drink this I'm going to pass out standing up" but also surprisingly I don't hate the taste, much less the smell. It's harsh but it grew on me tbh
Around the middle of 1982 the copper content of pennies was reduced and replaced with more zinc. Several "prepper-collectors" hoard boxes of pre-1982 pennies because of the higher (more valuable) copper content of the old coins and they do the same with very old dimes, many of which have a high silver content compared to dimes from the last few decades.
@@offbrand2161 Considering that the overwhelming majority of pennies never go beyond being valued at $0.01, no value is being lost. Inflation is the excellent way to decrease value of a penny.
@@offbrand2161 I know some might be valued at more than 1 cent, but even securing that price from a buyer is hard to achieve. Those pennies are rare to come across and only coin experts would be able to spot the more valuable pennies, unless they're one of rare pennies made of a different material like steel. Even those aren't extremely valuable. Given the high volume of pennies that have been minted, the chances of coming across a super valuable penny is just fractions of a percent, with most already being in collections. Most pennies valued over a single cent that are still floating around in circulation aren't worth more than few more cents or a few more bucks. Not really worth worrying about.
The vinegar and salt mixture dissolves the outer layer of dirt. Flip the pennies over and wait another 30 seconds. Then remove them, rinse them with water, and dry. Now you have two clean, shiny pennies!
I’d do a pre-‘84 set and after ‘84 set as a comparison. Or try for all the same year. 1. Salt and Vinegar 2. Bar Keepers Friend 3. CLR 4. Simple Green 5. Brake cleaner fluid 6. Nail Polish Remover
AGREED! AND slather or dunk each penny in the liquid of choice. I don't want to hear about the pennies overlapping and they weren't correctly exposed. What is up with putting all the liquid into one basting pan?! Empty, clean and dry between all liquids! That is how you do a testing. Better yet, have each sample exposed in Its OWN pie-pan!
It's not Pre 84, it's Pre 1982. So all Pennies 1981 & earlier are pure copper and always in any condition worth at least $. 03 in copper weight. What you could be thinking is that pre 84 pennies such as the 1982 & 1983 have some highly collectable & valuable examples. Especially in 1982. There's also 1 or more errors in 1984 & 1980. As well as a 1988 & 1989 D mint coins of value. I'm sure there's other errors on all kinds of dates also because there always is. The 80s were a great decade.
When I was a kid collecting coins, I would clean them by putting a spot of Crest toothpaste on the penny and rubbing it with my index finger and thumb. Worked great, then I found out that cleaning the pennies can decrease their value.
Yeah, I don't know who told you cleaning a penny can decrease its value. But I'm pretty sure they're wrong. Typically, those closer it is to "mint" condition, the higher the value.
@@katiewyatt4399 Yeah, naturally mint condition coins, not poor condition coins brought back to "mint" condition through cleaning. Soap and water rinse, sure, but not anything abrasive or corrosive or anything like cleaners or acids or toothpaste.
perhaps for the age value. but, same composition of other pre-1981 pennies from what i understand. so, melt value is the same. ps no penny is 100% copper. copper/zinc
@@katiebrooke9040 Indian Head Cents or Pennies were the last penny not to have Lincoln on them & yes they do have a fair value, but the older the better.
Fact: cleaning Pennies could damage them, example cleaning a $1,000 penny could turn it into 100 bucks. This happened to me when my science teacher showed us how to clean Pennies, I went home and did it, I took my coins to several coin dealers and this declined the offer, the coin was rare but turned into nothing. Coin dealers would prefer coins with dirt than coins cleaned. JUST DONT CLEAN YOUR COINS unless you want to damage them.
@@daisyque8189 if it’s a coin with corrosion and the date is not visible A. It’s faded away. It normally happens to coins that are older or gold coins since gold is malleable. The resolution to fix ot would be just getting a new one of keep it as is. B. If the date isn’t visible because it can be dirty, a better alternative would be to clean it with water and a toothbrush and maybe soap. Just don’t brush it too hard because you can damage this coin leading to corrosion and going back to plan A.
There is a product us drummers use to clean our cymbals called”groove juice”. That or any other cymbal cleaner will do the trick for sure...find these in any music store...
@@midwestmetalbanana9529 True...ya gotta follow the directions closely and make sure to rinse it all away...and avoid the logos if ya wanna keep them...
It's not Pre 84, it's Pre 1982. So all Pennies 1981 & earlier are pure copper and always in any condition worth at least $. 03 in copper weight. What you could be thinking is that pre 84 pennies such as the 1982 & 1983 have some highly collectable & valuable examples. Especially in 1982. There's also 1 or more errors in 1984 & 1980. As well as a 1988 & 1989 D mint coins of value. I'm sure there's other errors on all kinds of dates also because there always is. The 80s were a great decade.
I know this test is already over with, but my freshman year I did the same experiment in my science class. The result being that tomato paste cleans pennies very well lol
It would be difficult to completely shine up the more recent pennies, but all the solid copper ones from '81 or earlier could be cleaned like regular copper used in jewelry making. Stick a blow torch on them until they're close to glowing. When cool, soak them in something called Jeweler's Pickle (sodium bisulphate). It works faster if the liquid is warm. After a while, take the pennies out, and gently brass brush them individually under a faucet. The torch burns off all the oils and stuff on the surface, but it would also just disintegrate the zinc cores in the later ones.
Many years ago, I put pennies in Tarn-X. It immediately cleaned the pennies, but as soon as I took them out and rinsed them off, they became discolored, as if they quickly tarnished.
Next time you do it... Try shaking the jars up on a regular basis. Also rinsing with water before the comparisons and you might want to minimize the mixing of chemicals like Drano and Sulfuric Acid by rinsing out the tray each time. Some chemical products can interact and make poisonous gasses and stuff.
BTW 1982, not 1984, was the "transition year" for pennies - bronze to copper-plated zinc. And they made both types in 1982 also. You have to weigh the pennies to tell the difference.
Wife - "Babe where's the ketchup?" Tyler - "In the garage, idk if their is much left though" Wife - "Uh why is it in the garage wtf were you doing with it" Tyler - "Dipping pennies in it" Wife - "My mom was right, I should have married Jim"
Your test with the pennies would have worked much better with just one penny in each container and the darker ones. Also as I mentioned earlier comment, lemon juice works real well.
Not all acids are the same. When I was a lot younger I cleaned pennies with a solution of salt dissolved in vinegar. This forms a weak hydrochloric acid that cleans the pennies in seconds rather than days.
years ago coke changed its recipe and removed most of its acidic content. I had brass small light covers in coke for a week and it did nothing, in tomato sauce for 2 days and a bit of rubbing they came up like new. Also you have to lay them out without anything (like other coins) sitting on them or the ketchup cant act on it.
I watched your program on cleaning coins. I have a suggestion and I live in Canada and it’s called twinkle and it’s a copper cleaner and I cleaned the Canadian pay. I’ve got a lot of American pennies so I clean Canadian penny and it really did a good job.
If you add a little baking soda to the ketchup would have cleaned all dirt off ...but the vinegar does change the color of the pennies sometimes....what I found that works the best and does not change the color is coconut oil that you cook with...does awesome job with a little rubbing with gloves hands
Iramembeer when I was a small child my dad used to show us what he called a magic trick and would use Tabasco sauce to make pennies shine,it really only works with the pennies before 1885 and it starts working almost imediatly, my brother actually did that for a science project, but he had to break down all of the ingredients to get his grade! So for your next video thats something you can share and show
Hey, heads up: Some pennies are mostly copper, and some pennies are mostly zinc. Different material pennies may have different effects from all of the different liquids used in this video. I would go back and seperate the zinc and copper pennies, and then do the experiment again to see what liquid has what effect on which group of metal pennies.
I'd not bother doing another video as to be honest the women in our lives will eventually figure out that we've got nothing better to do with our worthless asses and will DEMAND we fix the broken fence, leaky faucet, etc or we'll be sleeping in the spare room until we do.
Yup, even salsa. Just don't leave it in the salsa for to long. My 9th grade science teacher showed what happened to pennies left in salsa. Pennies made before 1984 and some newer pennies made after 1984. The older ones were cleaner, but the newer one only thing that was left was a copper skin. The salsa ate away the zinc core. Great way to introduce chemical reactions, and also tell us that if a baby or child swallows a penny get it out of them asap because zinc can be really harsh on their stomachs and digestive tract.
If I remember correctly, most pennies made before 1982 are ~95% copper 5% zinc except for the steel pennies made during WWII due to copper rationing. The pennies that looked different from 1938 is a wheat penny which can be hard to find. Pennies made after 82 are ~95% zinc with a coating of copper
A good way to see how clean the liquids are getting the pennies is by clipping the pennies so that they are only partly suspended in the liquid. That way you can have the cleaned half of the penny and a original half to see the change
Salt makes the vinagar a super concentrated acid, vinagar alone is great for cleaning gold jewelery. But add some salt and it will eat the gold, and possibly your fingerprints.
So in wrestling we have the mats with segments in them and we have to tape them up with this super strong clear stretchy tape and it usually take two to three people to lay it out.
Why would there be a difference in the surface of a solid copper penny or a penny that is copper plated? If both surfaces are copper what would the inner part of the penny have any thing to do with it?
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America: WE HAVE A COIN SHORTAGE WHERE ARE ALL THE COINS??
Tyler: - hides the sulfuric acid -
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Pfft. Why can’t get nitric acid?!
That so called coin shortage was to get everyone to turn in their change so that banks could remove coins that actually had any value, so that only the newer coins that will rot after a year's time will be the only ones in circulation. If you notice that or not I am not sure, but that's what it was meant to do.
@@Lu_is_my_1st_Levy_my_lastmakes sense.. 🤔
All are with Collectors - or in sulphuric acid, slowly rotting away.
Suggestion:
Next time, place all of the jars in an ultrasound bath so that the contents are agitated, rather than just soaking, which would encourage any dirt or corrosion loosened by the liquid to fall away, freeing the layer underneath to come into contact with the liquid. It should also minimize the chances of the surfaces of pennies being occluded by other pennies in the jar.
I was thinking the same thing
I have an ultra sound bath that I can use for various objects. It's now in my shed as it is totally useless
Why is it totally useless?
Tyler: "I suspect this will not do what i suspect"
Or it will do nothing at all.
paradox
🤔 hmmm...
Vinegar and salt into a jar lightly swush around for three minutes and turn on the cold water and rinse well! also place a small amount of flitz cream on a old clean rag and work the cream into the rag well let it dry somewhat and use the rag to clean up the already three minute coins that Still cannot be read, just enough to be able to read them.Do not over clean it makes the buyer uncomfortable and ruins the coin's natural iridescence! It is better to leave them dirty, However, sometimes the damage is covered by dirt and that is 70 bucks down the drain if the coin is an ms62 instead of an ms68. Of course, all coins will become valuable over time never take the advice of anyone who tells you copper is a waste of time and dimes and nickels are too hard to read! Even tokens are great if they bring back a good memory.I have tokens I still am clueless as to what they are? but that makes me want to keep them even more!
So with the sulfuric acid pennies, zinc is reactive with sulfuric acid which produces zinc sulfate. Sulfuric acid only reacts to copper in high concentrations, and when heated. That's why the solid copper pennies stayed the same, but the copper plated zinc pennies crumbled. They were essentially hollowed out by the acid.
I do like how the sulfuric cleaned the pennies immediately. They were super clean before he even went to the next ingredient.
While you're right about the laws governing the destruction, defacement, cementing, and copying of U.S. currency, I'm taking this as a joke anyway. If what you are saying is valid, every child, magician, and artisan that nas torn a dollar bill for a magic trick, smashed a penny in one of those machines, or made a beautiful piece of jewelry from coins is a felon and needs to be reported, prosecuted, and imprisoned to the fullest extent of the law... RIGHT NOW! (eye roll)
@underground leaks 101 His intent was to clean them. If anything, he's proudly owning U.S. currency. Good luck getting him in jail for that
@underground leaks 101 The whole law, if read, stresses "fraudulently" in every warning sentence.
No fraud intent, you can do anything you want.
Frauds:
Zinc-plating pennies to pass for dimes in a handful of coins.
Restamping nickels to look like quarters.
Hollowing out silver coins before spending them.
Inking Zeroes onto the corners of a $2 bill to look like a $20.
You ruined it for me
gotta say, i love how A LOT of you make fun of Tyler for being experimental despite him not being a SCIENCE MAJOR, yet you still watch and comment on the videos which makes him enough money (and profit) to fund this content for OUR entertainment. please continue, these videos will keep coming more than a sloot on xnxxx
Yeah, and Ya' Probably shouldn't be Eating Ketchup......😅😂🤣😉
Oh come on, we all know mountain dew would make a penny as good as new.
I am drinking mountain dew right now 😂
You mean good as dew
@underground leaks 101 he's trying to clean coins not protest there was no intentional destruction except on your part to try to ruin our mood, Karen!
@underground leaks 101 Man you are dense, it’s not illegal to destroy US currency, you can do whatever you want to it as long as you have no fraudulent intent with it, IE melting it and selling the raw materials. Please do some research before embarrassing yourself especially when his main goal is to clean them not even destroy them in the first place
As good as DEW
Jason metal prep. Soak for 1 1/2 min. Then add baking soda. Agitate for 30- 40 sec. Rinse and clean with Dawn dish soap. Rinse and soak in jet dry and water for 10 sec. Rinse and pat dry thoroughly. NOTE: Pennie’s that have sticky stuff should be cleaned with soap and water first. The Pennie’s will look very nice. All copper Pennie’s will still be a different shade of color. You can pick out older from newer without a doubt by color. Long term effect unknown yet. Never use steel wool. That will contaminate the coin unless it’s copper wool. And that will scratch the surface badly.
Dont do this.
Tyler: i wouldn't think draino would cause corrosion
Back of draino bottle: WARNING: corrosive
Yeah it is sodium hydroxide and sodium hypochlorite.
Same with "nitric acid"!
Tbh this is the most I genuinely laughed in a long time. Thanks for this content I needed this laugh and the education about cleaning my coins
I look forward to when I get the notification on my phone of Tyler posting a new video 🙌🏽
Same
Same here!
I get worried and concerned for his safety.
Hahaha you get notifications, hitting that bell icon means nothing to UA-cam for me, half the time they don't tell me anyways.
Same
as a scrapper, i promise if you leave copper in coke over night or at most two days, it'll make #2 copper, turn into #1.
I was thinking coke when i saw the video title
What is #2 vs #1?
@ericacole8411 # 1 pay the most for copper then # 2
@@yaboye5955when you’re talking scrap metal yes, but collectible / rare coins no.
I remember you posted a picture of a container and we were supposed to guess what was going inside it. The person said vinegar and pennies. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO!!🥴
I can’t remember what I put now 😂😂
🤣
Dude i love your channel. Only thing i kinda wish for, though, is you expand these tests. There are so many other liquids to try. I could easily see like 20 or more. It’d actually be super cool to see. I hope you could retest some stuff, like this one. In any case, love your channel man
I know this is gonna sound time consuming but next time you should take pictures of the control before and then take pictures of each control afterwards so that we can visibly see any differences. Great video, nonetheless!
Don't even need a picture, he could just show the items close to the camera, when first setting up. Then he can compare side by side with the result.
Definitely but this is TylerTube, where the most unscientific testing takes place.
or tape over one side and not the other
Agreed, not quite "Project Farm"!!@@UkrainianBazooka
@@usernamemykel it's been two years mate, where have you been? y'know what, forget about that. welcome aboard!
There's another channel on UA-cam that used a very concentrated vinegar and salt solution that worked incredibly well in cleaning pennies almost effortlessly. As a kid I recall cleaning them with a paste of baking soda and water. You had to do some rubbing but it got them quite clean and shiny. I agree with another post here that mentioned trying Barkeeper's Friend, that stuff is quite an effective cleaner, I've used it on copper bottom pans with great success, or even Bon Ami may work well. I think the key is using some elbow grease, rather than just letting them sit in various liquids, which likely wasn't as effective as using the solutions to rub and polish them clean. Just my 2 cents 😉
The active ingredient in BF is Oxalic Acid - just to let you know...
You 1000% should've wiped them off to see if the dirt was loose or not
He did wipe most of them off, not super hard but at least enough that would get any loose dirt off.
I thought he should of actually tried to clean them as well. Not just pull them out of the jar.!
I found that Ethyl rubbing alcohol, works fine, 70% with a cotton cloth will do wonders!!!!
For those who didn't know ketchup removes patina from copper and brass
I use to do this with corroded coins I’d find in cafes I detailed
No it doesn’t ketchup removes the secondary molecular strain of chemical hydrogen and remnants of formula atoms. Do ur research
If I had a penny I would rub my ketchup on it 😪
@@valenjessy87 I'm watching a lot of restoration videos and when there is a lot of patina on brass or copper they wrap it ketchup and then remove it with a towel
@@valenjessy87 no, and i dont think you actually know what you are talking about. The acetic acid in the ketchup just reacts with the copper/zinc oxides to form the respective acetate salts which are water soluble
He's doing his own DANGEROUS experiments without even realizing lol. Mixing drano, sulfuric acid, vinegar etc. Start wearing a GAS MASK TYLERRRR. Iol.
Best random experimental videos on UA-cam as far as I'm concerned. Everything is always so different that you never get bored of the channel. 💪🏾
Your vids are helping with my anxiety thank you ❤️
Tyler: We all know about pennies
Me: yes, yes we do
I read this as soon as he said it cause I was watching an ad😭💀
You should do videos testing out the dollar store cleaners!!!!! Your videos are awesome btw, my husband and I watch you all the time!
0:09 "I dont know about you" ....... But im feeling 22
Sounds like he’s saying panties, lol. “Submerge these panties”
1M(molar) just means that there is 1 mole of chemical per 1L. Molarity is used to determine potency of the solution. Moles are how chemists compare number of molecules of chemicals even though they have different chemical weights.
Example: 1 mole of C is 12.01amu but 1 mole of Na(sodium) is 22.99amu.
They weigh different but have the same number of molecules.
Interesting, I thought moles were blind rats that lived underground and ate worms and roots
Thanks to your experiment! Wow ! Ketchup is the best to clean coins 👌❤️I’ll definitely do that
I just can't imagine Tyler without his garage and his weird but cool things he does. I've watched this channel grow over the years and one thing i love about Tyler is he's still the same and he hasn't changed at all. I also love that he's still a nice guy a really nice guy most UA-camrs turn into morons when they start getting bigger but with Tyler he hasn't at all.
I agree
Thats crazy! How the pennys are gust falling apart at 13:35 💣💥
10 seconds in and I’ll just say it, having been in JROTC and ROTC in college, copper shines up the best with lighter fluid. Lighter fluid is the best, hopefully you use that as a tester.
Tyler can’t make a breakfast sandwich right, what makes you think he can be trusted with lighter fluid
@@ilikefood1609 I bet you can’t make a sandwich right
@@ilikefood1609 yet he has 1mol Sulfuric acid just sitting around
When I was a kid, we did a science experiment with vinegar and salt to clean up pennies
Thank you for your service 🤣🙄
0:49 for me it's called "I need to work 10 hours on 5 hours of sleep and if I don't drink this I'm going to pass out standing up" but also surprisingly I don't hate the taste, much less the smell. It's harsh but it grew on me tbh
Vinegar and Salt, hot sauce and a citric acid like lemon!
8:02
Ketchup happens to have nearly the perfect amount of salt and vinegar in it to clean copper and brass.
I honestly use it to polish copper pans.
You just did some elementary school kid's science fair project for them lol.
"Is Ketchup an effective penny cleaner"
I missed the birth of my child to watch this video thanks Tyler 👌🏼
As the infamous Michael Jordan said
"STOP IT...GET SOME HELP!!!"
At least we know where your priorities lie
Was it a mistake and you are trying to comprehend with what you just did
Jk
@@oldsport8687 lol
😂😂😂😂yeah doubt that
Around the middle of 1982 the copper content of pennies was reduced and replaced with more zinc. Several "prepper-collectors" hoard boxes of pre-1982 pennies because of the higher (more valuable) copper content of the old coins and they do the same with very old dimes, many of which have a high silver content compared to dimes from the last few decades.
Weirdly enough when i was a kid my grandpa and i used to clean pennies with ketchup, don’t know why but we did lol
The acids in tomatoes are an excellent copper cleaner
And excellent at decreasing the value.
@@offbrand2161 Considering that the overwhelming majority of pennies never go beyond being valued at $0.01, no value is being lost. Inflation is the excellent way to decrease value of a penny.
@@Eidolon1andOnly you are right some Penny's are worth more than others like 1954 no mint mark going for 0.65 to 21 good.
source Us coin checker.
@@offbrand2161 I know some might be valued at more than 1 cent, but even securing that price from a buyer is hard to achieve. Those pennies are rare to come across and only coin experts would be able to spot the more valuable pennies, unless they're one of rare pennies made of a different material like steel. Even those aren't extremely valuable. Given the high volume of pennies that have been minted, the chances of coming across a super valuable penny is just fractions of a percent, with most already being in collections. Most pennies valued over a single cent that are still floating around in circulation aren't worth more than few more cents or a few more bucks. Not really worth worrying about.
The vinegar and salt mixture dissolves the outer layer of dirt. Flip the pennies over and wait another 30 seconds. Then remove them, rinse them with water, and dry. Now you have two clean, shiny pennies!
I think Tyler would really like a pickle dipped in mustard
Evil, but good 😂😂
You cheeky bastard
With a little bit of monster energy
And a cuppa coffee!
That's not ok
I’d do a pre-‘84 set and after ‘84 set as a comparison. Or try for all the same year.
1. Salt and Vinegar
2. Bar Keepers Friend
3. CLR
4. Simple Green
5. Brake cleaner fluid
6. Nail Polish Remover
If you use Bar Keepers Friend wear protective gloves! I bleached part of my hands with that stuff.
AGREED! AND slather or dunk each penny in the liquid of choice. I don't want to hear about the pennies overlapping and they weren't correctly exposed. What is up with putting all the liquid into one basting pan?! Empty, clean and dry between all liquids! That is how you do a testing. Better yet, have each sample exposed in Its OWN pie-pan!
It's not Pre 84, it's Pre 1982. So all Pennies 1981 & earlier are pure copper and always in any condition worth at least $. 03 in copper weight.
What you could be thinking is that pre 84 pennies such as the 1982 & 1983 have some highly collectable & valuable examples. Especially in 1982. There's also 1 or more errors in 1984 & 1980. As well as a 1988 & 1989 D mint coins of value.
I'm sure there's other errors on all kinds of dates also because there always is. The 80s were a great decade.
You'd want it 82 and prior and 82 and later. That is the transition year.where they removed the copper and replaced it to zinc.
82 and prior were 95%copper, after 82 maybe 3% is actually copper. And costs almost 3¢ to make
When I was a kid collecting coins, I would clean them by putting a spot of Crest toothpaste on the penny and rubbing it with my index finger and thumb. Worked great, then I found out that cleaning the pennies can decrease their value.
How does it decrease their value?
Yeah, I don't know who told you cleaning a penny can decrease its value. But I'm pretty sure they're wrong. Typically, those closer it is to "mint" condition, the higher the value.
@@jacobwheeler7402 it rubs away fine details on the coin, polished/cleaned coin are worth 2-4x less then “virgin” coins
@@katiewyatt4399 Yeah, naturally mint condition coins, not poor condition coins brought back to "mint" condition through cleaning. Soap and water rinse, sure, but not anything abrasive or corrosive or anything like cleaners or acids or toothpaste.
They're all worth 1 cent, can't get less valuable than that.
Lemon juice, baking soda , soda water, paint remover , salt water, olive oil , degresser.
Pennies that have a 1cent are known as having a 'wheat'
They are usually worth more than the average penny!
perhaps for the age value. but, same composition of other pre-1981 pennies from what i understand. so, melt value is the same. ps no penny is 100% copper. copper/zinc
Can buy wheaties for $0.03-$0.05 each unless it's a key date then they go for significantly more 👍🤝
There's some pennies from 1900's that are worth something I forgot what type it was.
@@katiebrooke9040 Indian Head Cents or Pennies were the last penny not to have Lincoln on them & yes they do have a fair value, but the older the better.
@@katiebrooke9040it's either the 1909 vbd or 1909 no vbd
Me who got recommended this at 12:46 am: Tyler: "Which liquid cleans pennies the best?"
Me: "well let's find out"
Tyler, Tyler you’re missing a chance. Tyler tube socks
Omggggggggg
And Tyler Tube tops
Fact: cleaning Pennies could damage them, example cleaning a $1,000 penny could turn it into 100 bucks. This happened to me when my science teacher showed us how to clean Pennies, I went home and did it, I took my coins to several coin dealers and this declined the offer, the coin was rare but turned into nothing. Coin dealers would prefer coins with dirt than coins cleaned. JUST DONT CLEAN YOUR COINS unless you want to damage them.
Do you know what to di if they are so corroded you can't see the year or anything?
@@daisyque8189 if it’s a coin with corrosion and the date is not visible
A. It’s faded away. It normally happens to coins that are older or gold coins since gold is malleable. The resolution to fix ot would be just getting a new one of keep it as is.
B. If the date isn’t visible because it can be dirty, a better alternative would be to clean it with water and a toothbrush and maybe soap. Just don’t brush it too hard because you can damage this coin leading to corrosion and going back to plan A.
@@Idothesui Thank you!
@ no problem
Too much
There is a product us drummers use to clean our cymbals called”groove juice”. That or any other cymbal cleaner will do the trick for sure...find these in any music store...
Forbidden soda
that shits brutal, if you aren't careful it could really fuck up the finish on your cymbals
@@midwestmetalbanana9529 True...ya gotta follow the directions closely and make sure to rinse it all away...and avoid the logos if ya wanna keep them...
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It's not Pre 84, it's Pre 1982. So all Pennies 1981 & earlier are pure copper and always in any condition worth at least $. 03 in copper weight.
What you could be thinking is that pre 84 pennies such as the 1982 & 1983 have some highly collectable & valuable examples. Especially in 1982. There's also 1 or more errors in 1984 & 1980. As well as a 1988 & 1989 D mint coins of value.
I'm sure there's other errors on all kinds of dates also because there always is. The 80s were a great decade.
I know this test is already over with, but my freshman year I did the same experiment in my science class. The result being that tomato paste cleans pennies very well lol
It would be difficult to completely shine up the more recent pennies, but all the solid copper ones from '81 or earlier could be cleaned like regular copper used in jewelry making. Stick a blow torch on them until they're close to glowing. When cool, soak them in something called Jeweler's Pickle (sodium bisulphate). It works faster if the liquid is warm. After a while, take the pennies out, and gently brass brush them individually under a faucet. The torch burns off all the oils and stuff on the surface, but it would also just disintegrate the zinc cores in the later ones.
I hate the people who care more about saying"FiRsT" than the actual video
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Same
It's okay bro, I got a blue turtle shell for them.
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@@TheoddLegend Thank you
Copper bottom pots are usually cleaned with salt and vinegar. Also used on battery terminals. Will changed the color.
"Get inside and just eat it all out or something" -Tyler 2021
Now THAT'S a quote.
Many years ago, I put pennies in Tarn-X.
It immediately cleaned the pennies, but as soon as I took them out and rinsed them off, they became discolored, as if they quickly tarnished.
the 1936 penny is a wheat penny, keep it they are pretty uncommon
Can buy wheat cents for $0.03-$0.05 each not to rare at all
I keep all wheat pennies. Which range from 1909-1956. I have about 2000. Not worth anything. But I have them.
@@golddog0113 never said rare, just said uncommon
@@golddog0113 they are not something you find everyday when getting change back.
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Next time you do it... Try shaking the jars up on a regular basis. Also rinsing with water before the comparisons and you might want to minimize the mixing of chemicals like Drano and Sulfuric Acid by rinsing out the tray each time. Some chemical products can interact and make poisonous gasses and stuff.
In hell:
*they eat peanut butter with pickles,
Drink monster, and mustard
Individually those things are great, all together that sounds miserable
I new my ex was a demon...she ate peanut butter and pickles when she was pregnant. Thanks for confirming.
BTW 1982, not 1984, was the "transition year" for pennies - bronze to copper-plated zinc. And they made both types in 1982 also. You have to weigh the pennies to tell the difference.
Wife - "Babe where's the ketchup?"
Tyler - "In the garage, idk if their is much left though"
Wife - "Uh why is it in the garage wtf were you doing with it"
Tyler - "Dipping pennies in it"
Wife - "My mom was right, I should have married Jim"
2 diffrent metals with acid causes a galvanic reaction.
You technically committed a federal crime destroying that penny from the acid lol
Was about to comment that same thing lol
big deal fuck the federal law lol
Stove top glass cleaner for flattop ranges cleans real well
Use salt and vinegar mixed together it cleans pennies in seconds
I was literally coming to make this comment.
XD
I like how Tyler says wall so casually, doesn't look like any wall I've ever seen
Your test with the pennies would have worked much better with just one penny in each container and the darker ones. Also as I mentioned earlier comment, lemon juice works real well.
Not all acids are the same. When I was a lot younger I cleaned pennies with a solution of salt dissolved in vinegar. This forms a weak hydrochloric acid that cleans the pennies in seconds rather than days.
"Since we did the coke, let's check out the monster"
Both coke products.
years ago coke changed its recipe and removed most of its acidic content. I had brass small light covers in coke for a week and it did nothing, in tomato sauce for 2 days and a bit of rubbing they came up like new. Also you have to lay them out without anything (like other coins) sitting on them or the ketchup cant act on it.
When Tyler makes a video
"Here comes the choo choo train!!!"
Only fans would know
Iron shark Tyler has an only fans???? 🤔
@@wyft2627 no, there aren't . Because if it's only fans then no new people watch his vids. See what I'm saying???
I watched your program on cleaning coins. I have a suggestion and I live in Canada and it’s called twinkle and it’s a copper cleaner and I cleaned the Canadian pay. I’ve got a lot of American pennies so I clean Canadian penny and it really did a good job.
You need to use that machine where it uses sound vibrations in a liquid to remove the dirt
If you add a little baking soda to the ketchup would have cleaned all dirt off ...but the vinegar does change the color of the pennies sometimes....what I found that works the best and does not change the color is coconut oil that you cook with...does awesome job with a little rubbing with gloves hands
All pennies before 1982 are fully copper*
They changed mid year in 82 some are copper some are zinc
From what I've read previous 1982 are under 98% copper, after that mostly zinc.
Not 1942 43 and 44 when The Interchange to steel because they needed the copper
Now use a penny scope to see how it damaged the Pennie’s or if it didn’t
A lot of Penny's where hurt in the making of this video
Iramembeer when I was a small child my dad used to show us what he called a magic trick and would use Tabasco sauce to make pennies shine,it really only works with the pennies before 1885 and it starts working almost imediatly, my brother actually did that for a science project, but he had to break down all of the ingredients to get his grade!
So for your next video thats something you can share and show
Hey, heads up:
Some pennies are mostly copper, and some pennies are mostly zinc.
Different material pennies may have different effects from all of the different liquids used in this video. I would go back and seperate the zinc and copper pennies, and then do the experiment again to see what liquid has what effect on which group of metal pennies.
I'd not bother doing another video as to be honest the women in our lives will eventually figure out that we've got nothing better to do with our worthless asses and will DEMAND we fix the broken fence, leaky faucet, etc or we'll be sleeping in the spare room until we do.
Try..baking soda.&toothpaste...no...gel...only paste.. see what happens..add lemon juice...jus for kiks...lol..
Tyler: “mustard is so disgusting I don’t see how anyone likes it”
Me: *will willingly eat mustard by itself*
Hot sauce cleans pennies the best. It makes them look brand new
Yup, even salsa. Just don't leave it in the salsa for to long. My 9th grade science teacher showed what happened to pennies left in salsa. Pennies made before 1984 and some newer pennies made after 1984. The older ones were cleaner, but the newer one only thing that was left was a copper skin. The salsa ate away the zinc core. Great way to introduce chemical reactions, and also tell us that if a baby or child swallows a penny get it out of them asap because zinc can be really harsh on their stomachs and digestive tract.
the vinegar would eventually break through the copper coating and dissolve the zinc inside it takes like a months or a couple of weeks though
the sulphiric acid pennies are immediatly clean and shiny. that did the quickest job
You Need to ADD SALT to the Vinegar to ACTIVATE the cleaning PROCESS
If I remember correctly, most pennies made before 1982 are ~95% copper 5% zinc except for the steel pennies made during WWII due to copper rationing. The pennies that looked different from 1938 is a wheat penny which can be hard to find. Pennies made after 82 are ~95% zinc with a coating of copper
Tin was used as well as zinc.
Copper pennies are really brass or bronze.
I have a steel wheat penny.
I have a 1944 steel penny rat has turned adark color
What can I clean it with without not damage it ?
A good way to see how clean the liquids are getting the pennies is by clipping the pennies so that they are only partly suspended in the liquid. That way you can have the cleaned half of the penny and a original half to see the change
try hand soap, only after they dry they tarnish.
You should try baking soda, salt and aluminium foil together clean silver. Maybe it can work on copper pennies.....?
Can you clean pennies/coins in a rock tumbler? - I would feel that would work.... Nice videos btw =)
A lot of metal detecting groups use rock tumblers to clean up & shine the coins they find.
Salt makes the vinagar a super concentrated acid, vinagar alone is great for cleaning gold jewelery. But add some salt and it will eat the gold, and possibly your fingerprints.
Ketchup is a liquid. And both it and mustard are flavored vinegar
I hope you kept the 1936 penny. Some of those are worth 1 million bucks.
If that 1982 penny has a d mint mark on it you need to have it looked at... It could be very valuable
Last time I was this early for anything my wife complained 😂
So in wrestling we have the mats with segments in them and we have to tape them up with this super strong clear stretchy tape and it usually take two to three people to lay it out.
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Okay Kyle
Why would there be a difference in the surface of a solid copper penny or a penny that is copper plated? If both surfaces are copper what would the inner part of the penny have any thing to do with it?
Lemon juice.. im a coin collector and been doing it for years.. also will clean alot more than pennys