I just get a piece of toilet paper, run it under the tap and make it into a ball. I then dab it over the crease and put a penny sleeve over the water for about ten seconds. That usually does the trick. Got to dry it quick though. I got a crease out of a big card the other week and sold it for $650
@@nothingbutcardboard Si for kids type cards, 60's Panini cards and paper. Just got to practice with it. Been doing it for a few years. Fixed dinged/wrinkled corners too. Just got to dab it once for a few seconds and then quickly dry it with a glasses cloth. There's no need to soak the whole card. Maybe only if the cards were removed from an album and had glue stuck on.
Avoid drying with paper towels as they scratch surfaces and leave indents. Try microfiber cloth such as the disposable or reusable before transferring to the plexiglass plates
What happens with the cards after years, in slabs or whatever? No one knows if any of these solutions will damage the cards in the long run? Hope the grading companys will not grade these cards.
Folks like this don’t care. Whatever gets the best grade, most money and quick is what they are all about. 5 years from now? That’s the buyers problem.
That is a huge problem. We are in no way endorsing soaking cards. This was just an experiment to see what happens. There is definitely risk with how cards will hold up over time. Fortunately it looks like most damage will be evident immediately and people won’t be able to grade the card. However, for the ones that do not have visible damage immediately and are submitted to PSA, it doesn’t seem like there is a way for them to find it. Perhaps in time PSA will figure it out.
@@tartuffethespry then wait a few more years, maybe it will change in color or whatever, maybe not…no one even knows what ingredients are in some of these liquids or polish.
If your going to keep it for years why not buy raw and put it in your own encapsulation slab. That's because your only having it graded for profit. I have a large collection and I don't need to pay somebody 20 bucks per card to tell me what condition it is in unless I'm looking to make money. Cleaning, soaking, repairing cards is driven by the same profit that grading cards is driven by
It will pick up patterns while it’s wet, so It’s important to use two clean flat flats at the end. It have have had patterns, but I didn’t notice at the time
@@nothingbutcardboard Really not sure. I was trying to figure out what Kurt's spray was made of and I asked a comic book expert who is a professional chemist and that's what he guessed it was
Love your channel and you guys are great for hobby! Thanks for all you do and your content
Thanks man!
I have never bought kurts card care but was wondering if the solution is Lens cleaner for eye glasses. 🤔
Hmm, good question. Might be worth looking into
Lens clean is usually 95% distilled water and 5% isopropyl alcohol
I just get a piece of toilet paper, run it under the tap and make it into a ball. I then dab it over the crease and put a penny sleeve over the water for about ten seconds. That usually does the trick. Got to dry it quick though.
I got a crease out of a big card the other week and sold it for $650
That’s interesting. What kind of cards are you doing this on?
@@nothingbutcardboard Si for kids type cards, 60's Panini cards and paper. Just got to practice with it. Been doing it for a few years. Fixed dinged/wrinkled corners too. Just got to dab it once for a few seconds and then quickly dry it with a glasses cloth. There's no need to soak the whole card. Maybe only if the cards were removed from an album and had glue stuck on.
@@DanielCordone9 good to know! Thanks for the info!
Very interesting. This is why UA-cam is so great.
Soaking seems to work best on paper and vintage cards
Yeah I could see that. It can absorb evenly throughout the whole card
Paper vintage.... not paper modern
Yeah I could see it working on paper modern as well, good point
Definitely on paper. You just have to dab the crease with a bit of wet toilet paper and it's gone.
@@DanielCordone9 but that's not soaking. that is dabbing. big difference
Avoid drying with paper towels as they scratch surfaces and leave indents. Try microfiber cloth such as the disposable or reusable before transferring to the plexiglass plates
Good tip!
Why damage a card even more
It definitely could damage the card! I would only do this at your own risk
I mightve missed it but did you use 99% alcohol. It might easier to measure water if you didnt it.
lol good one
do you do vintage at all?
Not so much unfortunately
What happens with the cards after years, in slabs or whatever? No one knows if any of these solutions will damage the cards in the long run? Hope the grading companys will not grade these cards.
Folks like this don’t care. Whatever gets the best grade, most money and quick is what they are all about. 5 years from now? That’s the buyers problem.
That is a huge problem. We are in no way endorsing soaking cards. This was just an experiment to see what happens. There is definitely risk with how cards will hold up over time. Fortunately it looks like most damage will be evident immediately and people won’t be able to grade the card. However, for the ones that do not have visible damage immediately and are submitted to PSA, it doesn’t seem like there is a way for them to find it. Perhaps in time PSA will figure it out.
I have polished on a card and it has not changed since being in a slab for 2 years
@@tartuffethespry then wait a few more years, maybe it will change in color or whatever, maybe not…no one even knows what ingredients are in some of these liquids or polish.
If your going to keep it for years why not buy raw and put it in your own encapsulation slab. That's because your only having it graded for profit. I have a large collection and I don't need to pay somebody 20 bucks per card to tell me what condition it is in unless I'm looking to make money. Cleaning, soaking, repairing cards is driven by the same profit that grading cards is driven by
Maybe try a nonpolar solvent such as hexane... 🤔
I’m not a chemist unfortunately. Why do you think that might work better?
Just saw the ending of the video, the Sewell looks like it has the indentations from the paper towel pattern on the back
It will pick up patterns while it’s wet, so It’s important to use two clean flat flats at the end. It have have had patterns, but I didn’t notice at the time
Would be interesting to see how the soaking affects autos
Can definitely be interesting. I feel like the alcohol could pull it off though
If it was an iso based solution, it's going to remove the auto or at best, fade/blur the auto.
The makers of each say do NOT use it on the actual auto. It will damage/remove it
We did a different kind of soaking back in my byu days
lol, I don’t want to know
@@nothingbutcardboardyou just have to get your friends to rock the bed up and down that way you stay right with the Lord!
People soak old comics in distilled water and methlycellulose
Any idea why? What the methlycellulose does?
@@nothingbutcardboard Really not sure. I was trying to figure out what Kurt's spray was made of and I asked a comic book expert who is a professional chemist and that's what he guessed it was
Interesting, may make for a good test
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I did the soak test with tap water and '23 prizm basketball cards. When they dried, the chrome layer split off the paper completely.
That’s pretty much what happened with the distilled water too
Dexter’s Lab 🧪
Haha, I’m an engineer, so experiments are my thing.