Fly spray and coins

[awildeheart]

Hi all, this forum looks great and I'm excited to be able to participate.

While checking out the forum I have been tempted to leap in and add a comment to an existing thread or two, (such as loving the Styer much better than the SLR because of reduced kickback and using smooooooth graphite powder rather than icky oil while participating in dusty and dirty exercises)  but thought I might kick off with a query instead.  Here it is:

I  live in the tropics and mosquitos are a huge problem here because of dengue fever, ross river fever etc so I have mossie coils burning all the time and use heaps of fly spray.

As I may have my counter (oh, okay, and maybe parts of my table as well) ... (and well maybe a few other surfaces too) covered in coins that I am noodling, sorting, and oogling, I have wondered what sort of archival and/or detrimental effect the use of coils and spray might have on my babies.

Any thoughts or information about the long term effects this might have?

[Ozcoins]

I don't know what effects they have,  but I would certainly be trying to keep anything good away from fly spray or coils -particularly the coils. I just have this idea of smoke/smoke residue/burnt chemicals/acid rain
Maybe, as an experiment, expose a nice shiny (worth face value only) coin to each and see what happens?

[ausjack]

:welcome: WH, hope you enjoy mate, but just like Oz said, sit one down and just watch as I've found out the hard way as usual that you can't leave nice coins just laying around as even dust will build up and mark them, so if I have coins laying around I try and remember to put even a bit of paper over to try and stop a little dust..so I'd say yes it would sorry, you'd think a bit of metal would be tougher :winkextra:

[robbiegal]

i used all that stuff and still got ross river fever


oh - and hi!! awildeheart

[echidna]

I'd say the humidity would be a bigger issue.
Any sort of moisture will eventually affect a coin.
Do what you can to make sure coins are free from moisture before storage.
If I suspect a coin may have moisture I use a hairdryer before putting it into a 2x2.
That's on the coin not my hair...

[robbiegal]

well, what a pampered collection you must have there!
sounds like a great idea

i'd hate to be collecting in the tropics

i remember putting stuff in cupboards to stop shoes and things going mouldy

the only thing that really worked was refridgerated airconditioning

[Bigfellani5]

Probably not good to have fly spray on coins. One way to find out is do a test on a few junkers

[JeffH]

When my daughter moved house I went with my tonner and car trailer to move the furniture. Used masking tape to keep drawers shut on her new (expensive) bedroom furniture set. Left sticky residue when removed and metho would not remove it. She wouldn't let me try anything else.
Called the manufacturer and was told to spray with fly spray and wipe with soft cloth. HONESTLY! And it worked a treat.

So, if you have some coins with sticky gunk on them and no acetone handy maybe fly spray is the go. Just don't blame me if it stuffs up the coins.

Jeff

[Sapyx]

Pumping pretty much anything into the air could have a detrimental effect on coins stored in that air, if there's enough of it. Especially when combined with tropical humidity.

It's been a while since I've seen mosquito coins in action, but as I remember them, they don't fill the room with smoke to the same extent as, say, a bunch of smokers sitting around a table playing cards does. So generally, I don't think there's enough "stuff" being emitted by either coils or bug-sprays to make much difference, unless they're used to extremes. If you're setting off a bug bomb in your coin room, for example, I'd suggest sealing up the coin collection first.