On May 19, 2:01*am, Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
*Tony Hwang wrote:





dilbert firestorm wrote:
On 2/26/2011 11:58 PM, mm wrote:
So I had some dirty pennies, plus one each of a nickel, dime, and
quarter, that were dark or had white or even blue stuff on them. Some
had been sitting in water somewhere maybe.

And following the dictum, google is your friend, I didn't ask here
what to do, but looked it up How to clean dirty pennies, dimes.

And it said use vinegar and salt, and I did, and the worst ones look
better now, but the rest of them look worse!! They all have white
"powder" stuck to them, and it doesn't come off. So I rinsed them in
water again (even though I'd rinsed them plenty after the vinegar.)

BTW, none of the pennies came out shiny, like the web pages said it
would

Is it because I didn't use white vinegar? I used cider vinegar.
Surely that's okay. Not enough salt.

What should I do now? Can I take them to the bank and then it will be
the bank's problem? What about the mint? Don't I owe society more
than that?

I'm going to buy some Cherry Zero Coke tomorrow. Will that help? Do
I have to omit the Cherry? (I remember that diet works as well as
with sugar)

Thanks.
what about this one?
http://www.howtocleanthings.com/how-...an-pennies.htm

Tubling will make the pennies shiny brand new.

Tony, WTF is your story, really? You claim to be an engineer who's been
in the U.S for something like 45 years. Yet you're almost illiterate
with English, you tend to offer the most useless feedback, you type like
a drunken baboon late at night, often in word salads or sentences
truncated in the middle as though you've slumped off at the keyboard,
and here you are responding to a thread from February.

So 'fess up. I'm guessing you're a one-legged, one-eyed, seven-fingered
janitor in a prison psychiatric hospital, accessing usenet from a vacuum
tube fired PDA. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.

THAT, OR SOME HAS BEEN SPIKING HIS CHERRY COKE.

TGITM