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Had a member send me these cans. Here's a before pic. LEON.

P.S. Best side showing. LOL.

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WOW !!! I would never attempt to restore those. Makes tumbling bottles look like a walk in the park. Roy
You'd be surprised. I'm anticipating some decent results from at least a couple of these based on the before pic - it looks like there's even some paint still visible, I can see at least three are some sort of two-tone design. I've gotten some fully legible labels from cans with nothing but rust visible, and that was just by soaking in lemon juice rather than the serious oxalic acid treatment that Leon uses. Meanwhile I'd have no idea where to even begin with building a bottle tumbler.
 
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How do you go about trying to save these if you don’t mind me asking? The dump site I frequent has a number of old motor oil cans (40s-60s) that still have graphics on them and aren’t too roached out. I’ve saved a few but figured there was no real way to restore them!
 
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You'd be surprised. I'm anticipating some decent results from at least a couple of these based on the before pic - it looks like there's even some paint still visible, I can see at least three are some sort of two-tone design. I've gotten some fully legible labels from cans with nothing but rust visible, and that was just by soaking in lemon juice rather than the serious oxalic acid treatment that Leon uses. Meanwhile I'd have no idea where to even begin with building a bottle tumbler.
I've heard of the lemon juice tactic but is it straight lemon juice or is it diluted?
 

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I've heard of the lemon juice tactic but is it straight lemon juice or is it diluted?
I just used straight lemon juice but it you wanted to do a large number of cans that would start getting expensive. I'm not sure how much you can dilute it while having it still work. If you want to do large numbers of cans you'd want to get citric acid crystals to mix with water rather than using actual lemon juice which would get too expensive. I think citric is known to corrode the metal so definitely be cautious trying it on anything you think could be particularly special. I wasn't doing it with cone tops, I've never been able to find those in the wild.
 

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Wow, you do much better than I do. Glad you liked them. Plenty more where they came from!
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Yes, I got these from RobbyBobby. I e-mailed him after pics Yesterday. Here they are the after cleaned Pics. LEON.

P.S. The first one on far left came out OK. These are pretty common, if they were the older black Milwaukee Clubs they would have much more value, these not so much.

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Wow that one on the left looks great, even better than I'd expected! I'm impressed by how well the cream colour held up.
 

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