Fire1981 Posted March 15, 2023 Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 I got a good jar of marbles 20ish years ago at a flea market in Michigan City in Indiana. The Seller told me they were in a coffee can and covered with rust. She rinsed them in toilet bowl clearer. From what I could see they looked good. Lots of Pelts and Akros. Dumped the jar and started sorting. What I found made me cry. It ate up a specific type of glass. This one of my good Bloody Marys🔥 RAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted March 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 Here are the ones that got damaged by the toilet bowl cleaner. Very weird 🔥 RAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted March 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 Heart braker🔥 RAR 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted March 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 Mohawk🔥 RAR 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 15, 2023 Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 Crazy weerd.  I guess I mighta thought of doing something like that ... if I hadn't heard very early on, on this forum, that some Pelts don't like harsh cleansers. Mighta learned it from you.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted March 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 I think I did post about this back in the day. I just dug these out today and remember the exchange I had with this jar of marbles. I would have done the Kermit dance if the Red Angel was rusty🔥 RAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted March 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 Any ideas what the Mohawk patch might be🔥 RAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted March 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 It would have been 3/4-7/8 🔥 RAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghMarbles Posted March 15, 2023 Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 Did the cleaner eat that much of the glass away from just one clean? Or were they sitting in the solution for like years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted March 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 I don’t know how long she soaked them before she put them in the jar. I just remember the other marbles were pretty clean. 🔥 RAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 15, 2023 Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 2 hours ago, Fire1981 said: Any ideas what the Mohawk patch might be🔥 RAR  1 hour ago, Fire1981 said: It would have been 3/4-7/8 🔥 RAR Hard to guess the odds on that.  Better odds of a shooter patch? Or better odds of a rainbo whose ribbon peeled off? I guess I"m leaning toward the rainbo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff54 Posted March 15, 2023 Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 Yeah that is weird because, I have been using hydrochloric acid AKA Toilet bowl cleaner on glass since i was a kid playing with household chemicals. Store bought cheap Dollar store bowl cleaner on marbles, various glass bottles, cups, glasses, windows and more for years and years and never harmed the glass. Maybe they were in it for weeks or months or added more chlorine.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvrons Posted March 15, 2023 Report Share Posted March 15, 2023 I agree it is weird. I don't think we have or know the whole story of why these marbles ended up like this. I also have used toilet bowl cleaner and about every household cleaner to clean marbles. some of those cleaners have destroyed stainless steel sinks and other things but not the marbles. Muratic acid will eat out or remove bad glass from a marble. But a good marble will take muratic acid for days. These marbles may have already had problems. Rinsed in Toilet Bowl cleaner should not do this. Maybe if they were not rinsed over long time, months or years. This might happen ? Was the entire jar like these above ? What was the specific type of glass that it ate up ?  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted March 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2023 There were Pelts,WVS,Slags,Corkscrews, Vitros,MK and a lot of other crumbs. Those were fine. 🔥 RAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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