![]() ![]() Never open the bottom slide, or you may end up putting slide marks on the coin. This will put it below the plane of the top slide and prevent slide marks. With your port now cleaned out, gently place the coin in and push it in all the way against the back slide. It'll evaporate, but it will cause atmospheric water to condense on the surface. When using canned air, be very careful not to tilt or shake the can (especially if it's new or almost full) or you will end up spraying a stream of the liquid 1,1,difluoroethane onto the surface you're spraying. Use the canned air to blow out the interior of the ports to get any flecks of junk that was hiding under the slide. Wearing the gloves, gently press on the top slide with your thumb and slide it a little of the way out until you can grasp it by the end and pull it out. I wear neoprene lab gloves since I got a few free boxes, but cotton would be just as good. I take a can of compressed air such as 3M's Dust Remover compressed gas duster - it's not technically air (it releases gaseous 1,1-difluoroethane) but it hasn't damaged anyone's coins that I've ever heard of - and use the canned air to liberally blow around the front and back exterior sides of all of the ports connected with the slide you're going to remove. Here's what I do to add a coin to my dansco albums: ![]()
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