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Old 03-16-2016, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by JollyRoger View Post
The soaking does not appear to have affected the glossy front. I only let it soak for a couple hours though. I usually soak overnight, but as soon as the excess paper floated off, I removed the card from the water. I was concerned about the gloss, I've heard stories about gloss on cards not holding up very well when soaking. I know it did not improve the card's technical grade, but it looks a lot better now!
I have briefly read about soaking cards on here but I don't recall reading where it took a couple hours, let alone overnight?

I thought it would take 15 minutes, maybe a half hour tops, but I guess that all depends on the glue used prior?

When you say overnight, I have a hard time understanding that the card wouldn't be completely saturated and most likely destroyed?

I will say, you guys are braver than me as I have no plans, not that my cards need them anyways, to ever soak cards.
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