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

Hmm, good question. Might be worth looking into

Lens clean is usually 95% distilled water and 5% isopropyl alcohol

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

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

@@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.

@@DanielCordone9 good to know! Thanks for the info!

lol good one

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

Paper vintage.... not paper modern

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

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

@@DanielCordone9 but that's not soaking. that is dabbing. big difference

Good tip!

Thanks man!

You're being facetious, right?

@@sourcingsailor4987 no I like the content! You don’t?

@@christophermalone1235 So, you just admitted learning corruption and how to cheat collectors and hobby is something you enjoy? Bless your heart! I gave you the benefit of the doubt and literally offered you an olive branch, but instead you exposed yourself. I'll ask you the same question, "How does a video like this help and enhance the hobby?" It's rhetorical, little buddy!

@@sourcingsailor4987 Boy you meet all kinds of geniuses online! So this is teaching corruption? Guess you must cheat a lot of people since you seem to be projecting! Enjoy little man!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

@@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.

If your going to keep it for years why not buy raw and put it in your own encapsulation slab. That's because your only having it graded for profit. I have a large collection and I don't need to pay somebody 20 bucks per card to tell me what condition it is in unless I'm looking to make money. Cleaning, soaking, repairing cards is driven by the same profit that grading cards is driven by

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

Not so much unfortunately

lol, I don’t want to know

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

Any idea why? What the methlycellulose does?

@@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

Interesting, may make for a good test

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

@@sourcingsailor4987 lol looks like you had some time on your hands. This was released a while ago while there was a lot of controversy on whether it was wrong or not. In our experience, and part of the reason we did the test, is that soaking cards does in fact damage the cards. We absolutely do not recommend doing it.

@@nothingbutcardboard The irony of when one is exposed, they immediately attempt to minimized that embarrassing exposure by attempting to be coy, witty, respond with weak ad hominem attacks, make excuses and begin, end or lace their asinine responses with "lol," "haha," or childish laughing emojis...again, in an attempt to give off the impression that they aren't exposed and triggered! "...a while ago" you say? Your excuse was it was released a while ago? So, you are telling me, wait, telling us, that there is a "statute of limitations" on responding to corrupt acts? Tell us, are you a distant relative to Trump? " Allow me to let you in on a secret, "altering cards, isn't a "new" concept and scums bags have being doing so, since i was a punk kid in the 70's and it was just as controversial then, as it is now! Furthermore, let me get this straight, YOU actually needed to record YOU submerging a sports card in water, uploading and posting a video on RU-vid of YOU knowingly showing others "shade-tree mechanic type of tricks, tactics," of which YOU clearly knew three things: 1. You would get a ton of blow back for this video, but as long at it enhances and benefits your channel's engagement, then damn the hobby, huh?they will surely use to CHEAT collectors and DAMAGE the hobby? 2. You knew this video would be construed as a "blue-print" to cheat collectors and the hobby, but again, as long as you have "real" collectors like me calling you out, you believe bad exposure is good exposure. 3. You knew the very second the thought came into your head to do such a test, of which you could have obtained the same results, wait for it, PRIVATELY, that the content of this video doesn't help the hobby at all, but damages it! Then, to record, upload and attempt to justify this video says more about you, than me, you know, the "so-called" guy with a massive amount of time on his hands! Furthermore, in your response to me, full of excuses, asinine excuses, you overtly admitted this does indeed damage cards, is wrong and not recommended! I'm going to end with a few quick questions: Since you overtly admitted and agreed with me that these tactics hurts the hobby, are YOU going to do the right thing and delete this video? You have obtained your reward from it via RU-vid;s algorithm? It would be extremely easy for me to hope you buy an expensive "raw" card or two or more at a card show, in a card shop, or online, then submit it to PSA for grading for them to tell you the card has been cleaned, suspend your PSA account and send their lawyers after you, after you realized you just through whatever you paid for the card out of the window of your Prius or Yugo, but I am not going to do that...wait, did I just do to you, what this video is doing to the hobby? Trying to play stupid by acting as if you didn't know the scum bags in the hobby will use this video to scam others and I? I can hear the divorce judge know, "So, you slept with two women in you and your wife's bed, just to see if it would upset her? I am awarding her EVERYTHING, including your card collection! Now take that!" Again, the question remains, "Since you realize everything about this video hurts the hobby, are you going to delete it?" Character means a ton to me, regardless of how much time I have on my hands!

Haha, I’m an engineer, so experiments are my thing.