Metal Detecting "How To Electrolyze Your finds" The Time Searchers

This is our way of documenting and preserving the past for the future generations. Time Searchers, the original metal detecting adventure series-often imitated never duplicated.

Time Searchers is a video series dedicated to the research, recovery and preservation of historical artifacts. Each episode chronicles the search for evidence of our past history.


This is a special episode for our viewers that email us there questions on various things like this episode about electrolyzing. This came about because of youtube of muting the volume on the first two cleaning videos. So this will show you how Bill "The Colonial Relic Hunter" Leydic does treat & preserve his historical artifacts. It is quite simple once you get the basics.

Remember this is how I do it but they may be other methods on this but this will be a good start for you all. I hope you enjoy the videos and hopefully you will be able to pick up some pointers from the video. Please let us know how it works for you! I will release other cleaning videos real soon. Good luck and keep the emails coming.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Electrolyzing
• Time
• Searchers
• Metal
• Detecting
• BillTheRelic
• Colonial
• Relic
• Hunter
• Preserve

[nuggetnoggin]

Nice, if i'm right you put them in the oven at 360 degrees for 3 or 4 hours an it gets to moisture out and tehn use spray paint of something to seam them.

[BillTheRelic]

Well....I have the oven on between 150 to 200 for 20 to 30 minutes is more than enough and they depending on the artifact; I will either use hot bee's wax, rust converter, clear spray, or a T-9 spray. Happy hunting.

Bill(Pa)

[Dem0D1ck]

Bill, thanks for the e-mail response. As a matter of fact I did try it here at my place shortly after I left my comment, with a 12v - 500ma AC/DC converter. Subjects were a 1958 silver Roosie dime, a 1958 wheaty, and a rusted auto exhaust clamp. It cleaned the exhaust clamp perfectly, but seemed to roughen the surface of the two coins. I then polished the two coins with an electric tooth brush, tooth paste and baking soda. They seemed to come out all right. Looking forward to next vid.

[BillTheRelic]

Just wait for the next two video's we have comeing up that I'll show you how to clean some coins using a ac adapter; plus on some coins and buttons I clean with by useing dish soap and baking soda. Thank you for your comments!

Bill(pa)

[Dem0D1ck]

Great video, this method looks it can be used to clean up all types of rust metal.

Can it be used to clean coinage?

[BillTheRelic]

Thank you for your nice comments! You can use electrolysis but in a smaller version. Like a train transformer will work nicely and a ac adapter under 6w. Just look out for more time searchers video's and we will put one up on doing this method of cleaning coins.

Bill(pa)

[nuggetnoggin]

@BillTheRelic thanks man, i probably be at DIV November hunt if i get picked again

[BillTheRelic]

Boy it cleaned up very nicely. Wait until you see the second part when I cook the cw camp pole belt axe. Plus I'll show you the finished results. Bill(pa)

[BillTheRelic]

Depending on what you are cooking. Like the candle stick holder. I used 6v but if that did not work well then go 12v. I try to clean them after every time I use them. If you do that you should be ok. Thank you for you great comments! Bill(pa)

[BillTheRelic]

Good luck and I hope you make the list and find lots of relics. Yeah I heard the same thing but if you do it in the open or well ventulated area; you show be ok. But it does work the best. Bill(pa)