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Pillar of the Community
United States
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carmykle, never thought about GS's. Sorry to hi-jack this post but I'm copper-nuts. And don't get me going on aluminum, I've 2 sheds (exactly 113,564 cans.) I'm doing like that guy in Tucson, he bought a brand new Nisson with cans.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 He bought a tin can with aluminum cans? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
687 Posts |
AGCoinHunter is right, get a Ryedale - those things are cool. A good experiment would be to separate enough copper by hand that you could sell it off and buy the Ryedale with the profits. Personally I don't think you can hold enough copper to make it worth your while in any reasonable time frame, but I'm sure a lot of people said that in 1965 too, so who knows?
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Valued Member
United States
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There is a youtube video of this thing running. It's a little slow but that might not be a problem. At 3000 pennies per hour, you'd be able to sort a box in an hour. How fast do you really need to go?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
672 Posts |
I didnt realise how much interst there was in this I will try to build it next break I have, it doe not look that difficult
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Valued Member
United States
186 Posts |
There's an old joke and it goes like this.
An interviewer was at a birthday party for guys 100 years old, and he grabs three of them and asks them. "In the Century that you've been alive, what is the single biggest invention that changed your life?"
The first one said, "Electricity, when that was put in our street and our home, everything changed."
The second one said, "The computer chip, it has changed everything we do."
The third one said, "The Thermos"
After a pause the reporter said, "What?" "Thermos?" "Why?"
He said, "You put cold things in... and they stay cold, Hot things in and it stays hot.....
how do it know?"
So to relate to this post.... HOW DO IT KNOW?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Did anyone ever try one of these machines? This one is tempting because its so cheep, but since I like to sort out the wheats and S mints, plus look for errors, I still have not bought a device like this. Tempting though....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Faster than hand sorting, but, hand searching gives me a chance to seperate/examine wams/ cams/ proofs/ etc.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2448 Posts |
You know, the only ones that are suspect and difficult to separate are the 82s...oh my God...we're coin or copperaholics!
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Valued Member
United States
380 Posts |
You can use the ring test and bounce it... eh not so nice on the coins. The scales work better to cause less damage to the coin. The Ryedale isn't exactly nice to the coins either with the sorting and scraping on things... You need to separate those large dates and small dates as well as zinc and copper!
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Valued Member
United States
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I have just completed an order for this machine. I had seen it quite some time ago on youtube before the designer started to market it. I ordered it in kit form with the ac adapter. If anyone is interested, I will give a progress report as I assemble and test it provided that this thread is still active.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If you have kids, save the money on machines and teach them to sort for you. NO KIDS? Then hire the neighbors kids. Sounds expensive? But then you don't end up with a machine laying around doing nothing that you spent money on. Of course most kids to that too.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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It would also be cool if someone rig up a machine to run electricity through each cent and measure the resistance. The pre-82 would probably have a lower resistance due to having more copper and less zinc.
Well, I thought it would be cool anyway.
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Valued Member
United States
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Yes just carl, I have a son. However, he is 39 and a career Marine. I don't think he would be interested. Besides, I'm a retired mechanic and I love to build and tinker with things, and I have five boxes of cents to sort. Nice thought though. |
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United States
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Copper is going to crash when the dollar does so why bother?
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