How to crack out with PCGS slabs - Video inside
Cladiator
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This is how I crack out PCGS coins. Works GREAT and feels GREAT doing it. The video is a bit on the grainy side but it's the only video camera I've got so it is what it is. Just filmed it tonight.
Link to my YouTube how to crack a PCGS slab video
Link to my YouTube how to crack a PCGS slab video
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Dropping the half dime on the floor is classic!!
I love it!!
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<< <i>Dropping the half dime on the floor is classic!!
I love it!!
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I drop a coin just about once a week! Nice video...I assume it works for NGC holders?
<< <i>I assume it works for NGC holders? >>
Actually it does not work on NGC. This method with NGC slabs results in simply mangeling the slab and making crack out very difficult. I have a completely different method for NGC which I'll film the next time I crack one of those. I put in the video description that you should NOT try this on any slab other than PCGS.
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You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.
thanks for sharing.
So that's you huh? The great Cladiator......
That must be your brand new LOC Half Dime album you recently picked up. Can't wait to see it when it's completed.
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<< <i>Like the battle star gallactica T-shirt
So Say We All!
<< <i>Using a much smaller tool and snipping just the outer flange of the PCGS slab in that same spot produces the exact same result without getting so close to the coin >>
The cutters aren't actually close to the coin at all when cutting. Agreed a smaller tool, if powerfull enough, would be easier to weild. I've crack many large coins such as Seated Dollars in this same method without a single issue, ever. All it takes is a working set of eye balls so you can place the cutters in a position not to cut through the coin.
<< <i>That must be your brand new LOC Half Dime album you recently picked up. >>
Sho is! Three holes filled and a whole butt load to go!
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YOU DROPPED THE COIN????
I knew it would happen.
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<< <i>Don't forget to put a glass on the coin after removing it from the slab. Maybe 1 out of 8 times, you'll find bits of broken plastic on the coin. If not removed, it's a disaster waiting to happen. >>
I've yet to have a single incidence with shards or pieces left on the coin but I agree what you recommend is probably a good idea if not just to make sure 100% the coin is clean.
If you still have the broken slabs, can you measure the thickness of the cavity where the liberated coin resided just to see if the 4mm thickness 2009 UHR Double Eagle will fit in the current PCGS slabs. TIA
<< <i>Cladiator,
If you still have the broken slabs, can you measure the thickness of the cavity where the liberated coin resided just to see if the 4mm thickness 2009 UHR Double Eagle will fit in the current PCGS slabs. TIA
Sure, no sweat. Gotta wait till tonight when I'm home and can dig through the trash though.
I much prefer the hammer, as it lets me get my aggression out.
<< <i>You should really find a woman.
Who do you think was filming??? Mrs. Cladiator was
<< <i>If you still have the broken slabs, can you measure the thickness of the cavity where the liberated coin resided just to see if the 4mm thickness 2009 UHR Double Eagle will fit >>
It's exactly 4mm. My digital calipers gave me just a tad bit wider measurement from the middle but I'm sure that was from the plastic flexing. If the coin is 4mm I'd say it won't fit. It would be rubbing up against the plastic window and that doesn't sound like a great idea, especially for something as soft as gold.
have you all seen the many vids on how to clean a penny?
its hilarious
could have gotten on the coin from the crackout. Maybe a fine artists paint brush
would be ideal. Blast air could be blasting moisture on the coin and that aint good
...maybe a quick acetone swish? I say all this as you seem intent on leaving those
in your album for decades so, a quick prep of the coin may serve you well.
then again, you can always use your trusty drop it on the floor method to knock off any
would-be plastic dust. That would work too.
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<< <i>If you still have the broken slabs, can you measure the thickness of the cavity where the liberated coin resided just to see if the 4mm thickness 2009 UHR Double Eagle will fit >>
It's exactly 4mm. My digital calipers gave me just a tad bit wider measurement from the middle but I'm sure that was from the plastic flexing. If the coin is 4mm I'd say it won't fit. It would be rubbing up against the plastic window and that doesn't sound like a great idea, especially for something as soft as gold. >>
Mucho thanks for the information.
<< <i>then again, you can always use your trusty drop it on the floor method to knock off any
would-be plastic dust. That would work too. >>
I personally have been using a 6" vise with the slab wrapped in a cloth towel- the shards of platico fly quickly when I crack the little bastidges fromn the cofin.
On the NGC'rs- same principle- wrap and squeeze the chit out of it.
now the Anacs slabs 1st generation after the midgets were easy, 2nd Gens a bit tougher.
ICG - I tried an old CO2 fire extinguisher on it- shattered like a windshield on a cold night in Chicago.
I don't have a SEGS slab- but I would like to use up with what is left in the CO@ - does anyone have a cheapo slab they want to have a video demo of- send me a PM and we will talk.
I have one other way of cracking out a coin, but it involves a 300' tower crane sitting on Hollywood&Vine and 6,000 lbs. of rebar- if interested I can probably get this on the friggin History channel as a look into what construction guys do for chits n giggles.
My project has now been on the tele 11 times in under a year- this could be a record.
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<< <i>A violent process no matter how you 'cut' it. Did it take much practice to get a clean split? >>
Violent is really a word I'd use to describe it. It took zero practice to get that clean split. I heard from a forum member here once to do it this way and you'd get those results. I tried it and got the clean, all the way across crack on my first try and every single try since then. It's easy as apple pie & vanilla ice cream on a summer evening.
That method is Crackout Approved™
Thanks for sharing that crackout tip!
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