Before I jump into the details of cleaning your hard earned metal detecting finds I'd like to give you a fare warning concerning the cleaning of valuable coins and relics. The warning is quite simple, cleaning collectable coins and relics can destroy their value. It is up to you to determine whether or not a relic should be cleaned!

Cleaning With Electrolysis

Generally electrolysis is used to clean very heavily tarnished or corroded relics. This process can clean hundreds of years of dirt and tarnish from most base metals in minuets. This process can also destroy a collectable relic in minuets, as well as burn down your home, or send a few hundred volts of electricity through your body. So please be careful! Using electrolysis can be very hazardous! That's your second warning!

If you are sure electrolysis is right for cleaning your metal detecting finds then follow along as we go through the process step by step. We will show you how to build an electrolysis machine, as well as how to go about using it. With that being said lets get started

Cleaning With Baking Soda

Using baking soda to clean your metal detecting finds is very effective. Aside from being effective, unlike the electrolysis method above it is for the most part safe. The only warning here is that of destroying a valuable collectable through cleaning, so be sure you want to clean an item before you start experimenting!

Baking soda works best on silver and gold alloys. We have also successfully cleaned other alloys with baking soda. Those other alloys include brass, copper and bronze. If you would like to read more on cleaning your metal detecting finds with baking soda follow our step by step tutorial here.

Cleaning With Natural Liquids

There are an endless amount of natural recipes you can put together to clean just about any type of metal detecting find you can think of. These natural mixtures use common house hold items like lemon juice, apple juice and vinegar. Don't be fooled, these cleaning methods can ruin the value of a collectable metal detecting find just as quickly as any of the other metal cleaning processes on this page.

These methods work great on just about any type of metal. Though we found most of them to work best on our copper and nickel coin found while metal detecting. Ready to clean your metal detecting finds the all natural way? If so follow along as we show you how.

Cleaning With A Tumbler

Tumbling is usually not an option for cleaning any historic relic or collectable. What tumbling is good for is cleaning newer clad coins most of us find while metal detecting. The right tumbling method will make those clad coins spendable again.

If you have a huge stash of dirty clad coins that have been building up try cleaning them with our tumbling methods. After your done you will have no problems cashing it in at your local bank, or change machine. We will show you how to build and effectively use a tumbling machine in this step by step tutorial found here.