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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
United States
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I say GO FOR IT! Let us know when your done. And of course......  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'd like to know it's success rate for accurately sorting out Zincolns. It's a great idea to save copper though. I just can't imagine that thing would work very well at 0.5g weight differences.
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It works with the difference of densities between Copper (Heavier) and Zinc (lighter) so it probably uses water or another fluid media to separate coins, indeed I would like to see pictures  |
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Valued Member
Mexico
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Sorry, I have seen the pictures and it works by difference of densities but "tumbles" the pennies. It is the same principle used to separate "good" grains from grains that have been eaten by bugs. What would it do to the coins?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I believe I've seen a video of this one and it is setup so that the heavier copper cents will cause that little pad to drop and the zincolns won't. The zincolns just fall through a hole on the other side. I think it's pretty slow and I can only imagine that it needs to be calibrated regularly.
I think you'd have better success and speed with a coin comparator, but building the feed mechanism is harder.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Think you would be better off buying a ryedale.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I've said this many times before. If you pay money just to get something to separate 1982 Cents, your just wasting money. Anyone should know you can make a balance scale with a popsicle stick and a pencil. Other than that, you should be looking at each coin anyway for something of value.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Love that website quote:  Quote:
Gresham will soon be proved right again. The copper penny will soon be extinct from coins in circulation. Smart people have been separating and saving these copper pennies for years. After all, how many investments offer you an unlimited upside potential with zero risk and a true hedge true hedge against inflation? Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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United States
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Up to this point I haven't been saving common copper but I believe it's time to start.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Tell you what, Americanmafia (love that handle) If you can build one succesfully, you've a customer right here. By clicking on the Owners Manuel tab, it's pretty well spelled out. I have limited use of my hands, or I'd do it in a heartbeat. With all the G-kids over for the night, we eat-up 3 boxes easy. no variety searching, just copper. Nickels are a whole different animal. They go through 'em quicker than I can get 'em. I keep them in coffee cans in the attic, but I'm afraid one of these days I have to transfer to the basement. I figure by the time they can drive, they'll be doing it on Abe's dime. Now, if we can just get the go-ahead to melt. there's a Mexican guy here in town doing it in his backyard. He showed me a chunk the size of a cinderblock. I'm just too chicken. I've heard of people getting busted with no jail time, but the fines are enormous. Getting back to the machine, I trust you have the skill or you wouldn't have brought it up. I'll even finance you. The general public hasn't a clue, so if advertised properly, I dont know if you could keep up with demand. I'm hooked-up now w/5 banks in this tiny burg, with Boise next door. All I have to do is open an acct; and I find they're very accomidating. Risses them off, though. Thanks for the link.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Ditto! I have only been able to amass a small bucket full but the garage sale circuit enables you to by lots of copper, bronze, and silver items. Storage is my only problem.
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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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United States
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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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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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