[StBernard] Removing Soil from Lexington?

[Westley Annis]

This sounds alot like what happened in my house.  I was in the oil spill
zone.
My son had a pressed penny collection that was eaten away by whatever was
in the water.  The pennies have white, crusty material on them.  Some of the
lettering 
is gone from the penny.  I have 5 pennies or so that are missing 1/4 of the
penny.  Looks 
like a rat was  gnawing at the penny.  Weird.  Strong Chemicals.  

Cleaning the pennies with Tarnex does not help so don't waste your money.  
I have not found anything else that will clean them.

mchacon


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> Interesting what you have said about your brass and pewter items.  I did

not

> live in Lexington, but mine had the same results.  I also just picked up a

> brass small jewelry box recently from the house.  When I brought it home

to

> clean it, it was so bad I just put it in the water and detergent to get

the

> mud off.  When I went back about 30 minutes later, the sink was filled

with

> small white pieces of some strange substance.  Needless to say, I threw it

> away and washed the sink with bleach, etc.

>  

> K

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