Card Soaking Experiment! Kurt’s Vs Alcohol Vs Water. What Solution Fixes Creases The Best?

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2 ай бұрын

Amidst all of the conflict and drama, I decided to try it out for myself! I’m not getting into the politics of it all, but I genuinely want to know what works the best! Is it Kurt’s, is it water, is it alcohol or maybe a mixture of it all??? Only one way to find out! Check out what solution got the creases out the best!

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@joshct9426 4 күн бұрын

Very interesting. This is why KZfaq is so great.

@christophermalone1235 2 ай бұрын

Love your channel and you guys are great for hobby! Thanks for all you do and your content

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

Thanks man!

@SylvainMarveaux9 2 ай бұрын

I just get a piece of toilet paper, run it under the tap and make it into a ball. I then dab it over the crease and put a penny sleeve over the water for about ten seconds. That usually does the trick. Got to dry it quick though. I got a crease out of a big card the other week and sold it for $650

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

That’s interesting. What kind of cards are you doing this on?

@SylvainMarveaux9 2 ай бұрын

@@nothingbutcardboard Si for kids type cards, 60's Panini cards and paper. Just got to practice with it. Been doing it for a few years. Fixed dinged/wrinkled corners too. Just got to dab it once for a few seconds and then quickly dry it with a glasses cloth. There's no need to soak the whole card. Maybe only if the cards were removed from an album and had glue stuck on.

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

@@SylvainMarveaux9 good to know! Thanks for the info!

@bamapaul2736 2 ай бұрын

Why damage a card even more

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

It definitely could damage the card! I would only do this at your own risk

@andrewpicchioni 2 ай бұрын

I have never bought kurts card care but was wondering if the solution is Lens cleaner for eye glasses. 🤔

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

Hmm, good question. Might be worth looking into

@indcsion 2 ай бұрын

I mightve missed it but did you use 99% alcohol. It might easier to measure water if you didnt it.

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

lol good one

@Dofferinho 2 ай бұрын

What happens with the cards after years, in slabs or whatever? No one knows if any of these solutions will damage the cards in the long run? Hope the grading companys will not grade these cards.

@jasonfuller2734 2 ай бұрын

Folks like this don’t care. Whatever gets the best grade, most money and quick is what they are all about. 5 years from now? That’s the buyers problem.

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

That is a huge problem. We are in no way endorsing soaking cards. This was just an experiment to see what happens. There is definitely risk with how cards will hold up over time. Fortunately it looks like most damage will be evident immediately and people won’t be able to grade the card. However, for the ones that do not have visible damage immediately and are submitted to PSA, it doesn’t seem like there is a way for them to find it. Perhaps in time PSA will figure it out.

@tartuffethespry 2 ай бұрын

I have polished on a card and it has not changed since being in a slab for 2 years

@Dofferinho 2 ай бұрын

@@tartuffethespry then wait a few more years, maybe it will change in color or whatever, maybe not…no one even knows what ingredients are in some of these liquids or polish.

@protowave6393 2 ай бұрын

Avoid drying with paper towels as they scratch surfaces and leave indents. Try microfiber cloth such as the disposable or reusable before transferring to the plexiglass plates

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

Good tip!

@captun5207 2 ай бұрын

Soaking seems to work best on paper and vintage cards

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

Yeah I could see that. It can absorb evenly throughout the whole card

@1800KungFu 2 ай бұрын

Paper vintage.... not paper modern

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

Yeah I could see it working on paper modern as well, good point

@SylvainMarveaux9 2 ай бұрын

Definitely on paper. You just have to dab the crease with a bit of wet toilet paper and it's gone.

@1800KungFu 2 ай бұрын

@@SylvainMarveaux9 but that's not soaking. that is dabbing. big difference

@memorymobley313 2 ай бұрын

🤙

@TheRealWarez 2 ай бұрын

Maybe try a nonpolar solvent such as hexane... 🤔

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

I’m not a chemist unfortunately. Why do you think that might work better?

@andrewpicchioni 2 ай бұрын

Just saw the ending of the video, the Sewell looks like it has the indentations from the paper towel pattern on the back

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

It will pick up patterns while it’s wet, so It’s important to use two clean flat flats at the end. It have have had patterns, but I didn’t notice at the time

@mattherzstein5616 2 ай бұрын

Would be interesting to see how the soaking affects autos

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

Can definitely be interesting. I feel like the alcohol could pull it off though

@TheRealWarez 2 ай бұрын

If it was an iso based solution, it's going to remove the auto or at best, fade/blur the auto.

@grindstone11 2 ай бұрын

The makers of each say do NOT use it on the actual auto. It will damage/remove it

@jeremylopez4156 2 ай бұрын

We did a different kind of soaking back in my byu days

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

lol, I don’t want to know

@jeremylopez4156 2 ай бұрын

@@nothingbutcardboardyou just have to get your friends to rock the bed up and down that way you stay right with the Lord!

@genesmith3582 2 ай бұрын

I did the soak test with tap water and '23 prizm basketball cards. When they dried, the chrome layer split off the paper completely.

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

That’s pretty much what happened with the distilled water too

@tartuffethespry 2 ай бұрын

People soak old comics in distilled water and methlycellulose

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

Any idea why? What the methlycellulose does?

@tartuffethespry 2 ай бұрын

@@nothingbutcardboard Really not sure. I was trying to figure out what Kurt's spray was made of and I asked a comic book expert who is a professional chemist and that's what he guessed it was

@nothingbutcardboard 2 ай бұрын

Interesting, may make for a good test