Babe Ruth Stain Removal -  Vintage Baseball

Let's look at a 1952 Babe Ruth. It's a look and see card. So, it's it's cool, you know, it's really cool classic image of Babe. And um I really want to use this video today for three things. Three. All right. So, number one, we're going to do a pre-oak, okay? Like a semi- soak because as you guys can see, it almost looks like it, you know, sat in a cup of coffee or something. Real heavy uh tide line right up into there. The surface has a crease in it. The edge is chipped up and peeling up. So, I want to do a semi- soak first to like pre-treat the stains, break them down, get them loose. So, that's step one. Step two, we'll do a card soak. We'll we'll wash all that junk out of there. Step three, we'll dry it. So, uh let's get [music] started. Step one, we're going to do a semi- soak. I'm going to spray my pads here. I'm going to move this one out of the way cuz I have clean ones for this job. We're going to put a plastic circle in. We're going to get it wet. >> You know how like if you go outside and play football and you grass stain your jeans, you know, you got to pre-treat them before you wash them. And same rule applies for your baseball cards. >> So, we're going to let babe stay right there. break down all these old stains, get this thing looking awesome again. I thank you guys for coming along with me on this one. It's going to be great. And what I'm going to do is uh I'm going to clip this up and then we'll open it up together. And uh I'm going to let it sit like this for let's just for for the sake of easy timekeeping, we'll do 1 hour. I'll be back in 1 hour. So let's pick it up an hour later. So, in that past hour, just that heavy semi- soak should do a good job of getting into the card, breaking down some of those stains. Hopefully hopefully a lot of them, you know. So, you see like all that soaked right into the card and then it stays wet around it. So, it's always getting in the sides of it. Giving it a head start hopefully. I mean, look at that. It's already starting to break down those nasty [music] stains. They're pretty heavy, though. So, let's just do a transfer now. And it's finally uh warm in my office today. It's in the mid70s. So I don't have the hot tub time machine set up right now. Sometimes if you're working in a real cold room, I like to have my card spray like in the mid70s, like 75 to 80ish degrees if possible. [music] And right now my office is 75. So I'm cool like this. So what I want to do is I'm going to leave this to soak. I'm gonna just let it sit for like maybe 10 15 minutes and uh just hope to flush out all these stains and then um we'll take it out and we'll start the drying process. So, this is step number two. After you do your semi- soak on your vintage cards, do a full soak to flush out the remaining stains. Check it out. I already want to show you guys something cool. See how it's already getting lighter right in there. Look at that. That fast. And then there'll be times, you know, like this where I'll just kind of go in there and feel the surface. >> You know, sometimes the stains need a little push. Not much, though. Don't ever scrub or anything like that, but little little taps are always cool. All right. Well, I'm going to let the babe sit for uh I'm going to set my my alarm here. I'm I'm kind of multitasking, so I'm going to walk away, but I'm going to set this for uh 15 minutes, and we'll be back. I think we're looking pretty darn good. So, what I'm going to do next, guys, is I'm going to take the the babe out, and we're going to do set up for the drying process. So, this is step three, right? So, step three, we're going to start the drying process, and I'll walk you through it. You're going to see me make a card sandwich here, and you're going to see me put a shammy on the back side of the card. I'm going to change these shammis out three times. So, I have three separate shammies. in the next 24 hours. The key is to pull the moisture out of the card consistently while keeping it flat in the card sandwich. And I'll do that for 24 hours and then I'll finish the the hold between the pads. And I'll turn on the camera and just, you know, just show you kind of the process. But that's what I'm really doing you guys is, you know, the card is wet [music] internally and externally. So, we got to pull all the moisture out layer by layer while keeping it pressed. But you don't want it sitting like in its own moisture. So, you just want to stay on top of the drying process. You know, usually the day one is the busiest because you have to do the most changes. But day two, pay attention. Day threeish, you can pretty much start keeping it in the pads and changing those, you know, maybe once a day and just hold it for a couple more days so it's totally flat, totally dry. You're you're never in a rush to dry these things when you're doing something like this. Hold it flat and nurse it back to health and it'll be awesome. So, that's uh what I'm going to do right here. So, let me show you how we start step three. Hey, hey, hey. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah. [music] >> We're at the stage where I'm going to take the shammy off cuz I have like put one on it last night and I left it on overnight. It's my third shammy and it was drying really nice. And look at the color so far, my friends. Remember those big old stains that were in there? You know, looking looking real good. The surface is looking real good, too. So, we're going to finish it off between here and then we'll take a final look. And I'll usually, you guys, this is where a card really needs to just dry and just cure and come back to uh, you know, health and everything. So, I'll hold it like this for and you can hold it like this for a couple days and then just make sure it's totally dry. And then I want you to transfer it to like, you know, one of your uh like a sleeve in a case, you know, something, you know, just do a setup like that and [music] continue to hold it. But, um, we'll be back and I'll show you the final final outcome. So after finishing up the shammism, I just let babe rest between the the pads and I definitely come back and check and open it and look at it and spend a little time like wafting off the front like but the majority of the time it's always just right between here. I just take a couple looks but it's been two days like in here and I'm ready. I think we should be good. So let's take a look at our project. All right, let's just get right to it. Check out where those stains were. And I'll always encourage you guys to go after stains like this. I'll tell you, like it's hard to guess. Those were so severe and so in there that I found them them really challenging. And like the surface, you guys see like there's some cracks in the finish, but the surface is nice and flat again. It looks really good. the back too. Let's check out the back. Back is pretty good. [music] So, but now it's just clean. So, I'm I'm into that. But great card, isn't it? Babe Ruth, look and see. And if you haven't worked on vintage cards before, I got the map for you. Just pick up a couple and get uh get busy. Have fun with it. I hope you enjoyed this one as much as I did. I'm Kurt with Kurt's Card Care. Let's [music] see. >> [music]

3 Step Stain Removal 1. One hour semi soak 2. 20 minute Card soak 3. Dry the card - 3 shammy changes in the first 24 hours - When the card feels 90% dry. Finish holding for two more days between the black foam pads only. #BabeRuth #kurtscardcare #thehobby #baseballcards #vintagerestoration