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Posted By: Bill Todd
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Posted By: barrysloate
I would be very careful, and start off with the least valuable of the bunch in case it doesn't work. It could end up taking off a little paper, depending what is on it. |
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Posted By: Dave G
...it depends what the gunk is.......if its congealed rubber band...forget it unless its got very brittle. |
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Posted By: Andy
Please forgive my ignorance here, but I have read a lot of posts that reference "soaking" cards and I don't know what this really means. Do you actually drop a card into a solution and let it get soaked? I've never done it and I keep thinking about a what happens to a book when it gets wet and it gets destroyed. Could someone please go into just a little detail as to what soaking is. |
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Posted By: Andy
Thank you Bob. I remembered your post from not long ago but still don't think I fully understand. You used a dropper to put a drop of water on at a time. Is that how soaking is done in most cases, or are people actually sumberging cards in water when they want to soak the whole card? |
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Posted By: leon
I have done a few full soakings and they worked wonderfully. On other cards I use a cue tip and distilled water (actually I always use distilled water) and dab it a little. Sometimes I will rest the cue tip, partially wet, on the remnant, in order to soften it up. Be very, very gentle. Practice on very inexpensive cards first. I have messed a few cards up by rubbing too hard but never anything too valuable. Quite a few of The Trucker Boy find cards had remnants on the backs, most notably the T212-3 Weaver, that resides in an SGC30 holder below. This was soaked for about 10-15 minutes, as I remember, though it could have been plus or minus a few minutes. I was watching intently as it moistened in the water. There was about a half of a dime sized paper remnant that was squarely over the writing on the back. It came off pefectly and almost in one piece.....good luck... |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
It is not rocket science. |
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