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inks: before & after - 1/12/2006 10:25:45 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey gang, I just took a couple of inks out of the "soup" (muriatic acid bath) here's how they turned out... Before... ] Attachment (1) < Message edited by southern Maine diver -- 1/12/2006 10:28:18 PM > Post #: 1

RE: inks: before & after - 1/12/2006 10:29:33 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline After... Attachment (1) < Message edited by southern Maine diver -- 1/12/2006 10:36:24 PM > (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 2

RE: inks: before & after - 1/12/2006 10:35:01 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Encrsted square ink block (?)... Attachment (1) < Message edited by southern Maine diver -- 1/12/2006 10:37:29 PM > (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 3

RE: inks: before & after - 1/12/2006 10:38:32 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline After the soup... No polishing or tumbling, just overnight in the acid bath.... Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 4

RE: inks: before & after - 1/12/2006 11:24:09 PM    capsoda Posts: 7930 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Wayne, that square desk ink may be crystal. If it is you can't tumble it, it will have to be polished. Crystal will have no seams and the bottom will be smooth. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 5

RE: inks: before & after - 1/12/2006 11:28:46 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Warren... Again, you are right on my friend!! There are no seams and the bottom is smooth based and it is very heavy. It's probably 4"x4"x3" has a couple chips and bruises in it, but I like it.. You have become one with the glass Obi-Wan-Capsoda... I wouldn't have known that or even what to look for if it had not been for your thoughts on this ink. Thanks Cap. Wayne I can show you where I found it if you come up to visit me in April for the bottle show?! < Message edited by southern Maine diver -- 1/12/2006 11:32:34 PM > (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 6

RE: inks: before & after - 1/13/2006 4:28:45 AM    bearswede Posts: 2910 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Yeah, we could use a knowledgeable rebel to keep us yanks in line... ROR... Boo Bear _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 7

RE: inks: before & after - 1/13/2006 7:58:24 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 973 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Ahhhhhhhhh more inks! Wayne here is a ocean dug "beauty"... at least I think it is, this one is half filled with clam shells and has a white crusty something sticking on it, it does pop of with a thumbnail but I thought it gave it xtra old look kinda like Jacque and Phillip'e dug it from a old wreck... Taz Attachment (1) (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 8

RE: inks: before & after - 1/13/2006 4:19:52 PM    bearswede Posts: 2910 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Coralline algae... _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 9

RE: inks: before & after - 1/13/2006 7:35:24 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Taz... Bearswede's right... that is coraline algae. It's usually pinkish in color, until it dies and then it fades to a white or light grey color. I can get you a truckload of bottles covered with this stuff! I have to look at them really close underwater to see if they are collectable... That algae covers everything... rocks, shells, new bottles and old, so I have to take my time to check the bottle top to see if its' a cork top, crown top or screw cap... Wayne (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 10

RE: inks: before & after - 1/14/2006 7:03:14 PM    greenpoison   Posts: 80 Joined: 3/9/2005 Status: offline hey Wayne, thanks for posting the before and after pics. neat stuff. does the aqua igloo have any embossing on the base? I love igloos, but find that more often then not they are not embossed, and I really love embossed bottles because they help tell the story... -Adam (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 11

RE: inks: before & after - 1/14/2006 7:09:35 PM    dirtflicker Posts: 938 Joined: 9/19/2005 Status: offline SUPER COOL PICS GUYS!!! MAYBE I SHOULD START DIVING FOR MY BOTTLES?? NAAAAAA.....WHY DIVE WHEN YOU CAN DIG SEEPER THAN THE REST!!!!! (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 12

RE: inks: before & after - 1/15/2006 12:08:39 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline greenpoison... Hey Adam... no embossing on this... the base is rather smooth... But all in all, I was happy to find it it was my first igloo, so it goes into the ink collection. Wayne (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 13

RE: inks: before & after - 1/15/2006 12:12:02 PM    greenpoison   Posts: 80 Joined: 3/9/2005 Status: offline hey Wayne, embossing or no-embossing - to find an igloo is amazing! That would be a dream find of mine! congrats!, and it cleaned up great too. ~Adam (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 14

RE: inks: before & after - 1/17/2006 6:10:41 PM    Miles   Posts: 248 Joined: 9/6/2005 From: New York Status: offline Whew- that igloo ink looks like the barnicles attached to it, left for vacation and came back again....that acid is pretty powerful stuff, I think I'll stick to the wait till I find a tumbler at a garage sale method of cleaning...looks like my bottles are gonna have to wait a few hundred more years. (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 15

RE: inks: before & after - 1/17/2006 11:05:45 PM    southern Maine diver Posts: 1436 Joined: 8/13/2005 From: South Berwick, Maine USA Status: offline Hey Miles... The acid bath is only to remove the hard calcium growth from the bottles... I don't know how long it would take a tumbler to remove this stuff I save the tumbling for the nice bottles... the Keepers. The acid has not damaged any of my glass... but I am careful and try to use the weakest solution possible. Just enough to get the job done. Wayne (in reply to southern Maine diver) Post #: 16

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