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linkster
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 Posted - 04/04/2010 : 21:49:13
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Hey folks I am new to this forum and have been lurking for some time, and this is a great site. The last two months I have been getting boxes from the bank and quickly breaking open the rolls and pulling wheats, indians and Canadians that jumped out at me. I am a coin collector that is a mechanical engineer by training and making a sorter was appealing to me on many levels. I finally had time to get it finished and sort the first 20 boxes I had stockpiled over the last few months. I need to fine tune and modify my original design because a get about 3 jams per box. I did 2 boxes back to back with a stopwatch and I got them sorted in a little under 24.5 minutes. That equates to about 12,000 pennies an hour for a machine that took me about 20 hours and 100 bucks to build. I was wondering what kind of numbers per hour you guys with Rydales get when sorting. Most of my jams came from bent or mangled pennies that jammed/slowed down my feed hopper. I am in District 4 and I am getting about 15 wheats per roll and 28 to 34 percent copper per box. I also found an indian (1907 XF) in my third box. When I get more spare time I will post my official numbers in the other threads.
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motos
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 04/04/2010 : 22:05:04
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| I would love to see some pictures of your machine if you would? Maybe even a video? I don't own a sorter but they are cool! |
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lewbo
Penny Pincher Member
USA
221 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 22:11:18
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| that is much better results than anything I am seeing in Florida and the speed sound great for a $100 machine. Pictures/video are indeed needed! |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
 Posted - 04/05/2010 : 06:07:39
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Originally posted by linkster
Hey folks I am new to this forum and have been lurking for some time, and this is a great site. The last two months I have been getting boxes from the bank and quickly breaking open the rolls and pulling wheats, indians and Canadians that jumped out at me. I am a coin collector that is a mechanical engineer by training and making a sorter was appealing to me on many levels. I finally had time to get it finished and sort the first 20 boxes I had stockpiled over the last few months. I need to fine tune and modify my original design because a get about 3 jams per box. I did 2 boxes back to back with a stopwatch and I got them sorted in a little under 24.5 minutes. That equates to about 12,000 pennies an hour for a machine that took me about 20 hours and 100 bucks to build. I was wondering what kind of numbers per hour you guys with Rydales get when sorting. Most of my jams came from bent or mangled pennies that jammed/slowed down my feed hopper. I am in District 4 and I am getting about 15 wheats per roll and 28 to 34 percent copper per box. I also found an indian (1907 XF) in my third box. When I get more spare time I will post my official numbers in the other threads.
Welcome. We need pictures of this please. Or even better, a video of it working. It sounds pretty cool.
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 04/05/2010 : 07:29:58
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| Welcome to the fourm. You are getting a great rate for wheaties and copper. |
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Deathsled11
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 04/05/2010 : 08:30:40
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| 28-34% copper is fantastic ! Id also be interested in hearing more about your sorter :) |
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EL CENTAVO
Penny Sorter Member
USA
31 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2010 : 12:12:56
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linkster
New Member
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2010 : 23:17:42
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Will get some pics and vids up in a while, basically a suzo/happ hopper off of ebay for 50 bucks and a cc-16INH comparitor for 10 bucks running from a old desktop power supply with some acrylic sheet for a slide in between dumping into 2 ammo cans with a few radio shack switches in between to keep the inh feature on the comparitor happy.
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rosco
Penny Collector Member
USA
254 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2010 : 02:14:11
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I need pictures an model # of parts if you will be So Generous. |
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conpewter
New Member
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Posted - 05/19/2010 : 11:02:41
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battlecat
Penny Pincher Member
152 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2010 : 20:09:09
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Roadrunner
Penny Collector Member
USA
413 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2010 : 22:14:15
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| Ooh....I am salivating at the thought of it..... |
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fasteddy
Penny Collector Member
USA
298 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2010 : 11:35:59
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| The world is full of reverse engineers....I am glad you have built YOUR machine linkster...To all...the info is out there...go and research and build, so you can be proud of YOUR machine. Then you can share your knowledge... |
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twentybux
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 05/22/2010 : 23:11:26
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| Sweet work! And, of course, welcome to the forum. I too would love to see some pics. You da man! |
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Kurr
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 05/22/2010 : 23:33:47
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The world is full of reverse engineers....I am glad you have built YOUR machine linkster...To all...the info is out there...go and research and build, so you can be proud of YOUR machine. Then you can share your knowledge...
My time is much more valuable than that. He's a mechanical engineer and it still took him half a week of 8 hour days, runs slower and jams more, no offence.
Don't get me wrong, if he sat down and worked it all out and built it, that is infinitively cool, and kudos, but it ain't for everyone. |
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Twohorses
New Member
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Posted - 05/29/2010 : 20:18:49
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I am not an engineer or mechanic. My son and I started by hand, got a penny miser and then built this.
We bought the mechanism on ebay for $50 and built the case for about $12. It works pretty good.
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conpewter
New Member
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Posted - 06/02/2010 : 13:31:03
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I am not an engineer or mechanic. My son and I started by hand, got a penny miser and then built this.
We bought the mechanism on ebay for $50 and built the case for about $12. It works pretty good.
Cool! How do you feed it? I bought a coin comparitor already, but need to figure out how to wire it (no wiring harness) and how to feed it, thanks! |
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linkster
New Member
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2010 : 20:01:56
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| You feed using any type of coin hopper that is usually found in change machines or slot machines. You have to find one that has the capabilities to dispense the right size coin (in my case pennies that are 19mm) I used a suzo/happ controls cube hopper with the right knofe and feed wheel for pennies. Then all you have to do is make a chute that changes the orientation of the ejected coin from the hopper to the input of the comparitor. When I have more time I will post pictures and video of my tuned/modified sorter. In my spare time I have been playing around with new motors/gearing for the hopper to increase its feed rate, and dabling with running 2 comparitors in series to do the double sorting of coppers in one operation. Also have been kicking around the idea of using a high speend counter/sorter with several parralled comparitors to drastically increase sortinng speed. Unfortunately I wont have a lot of free time till fall/winter when outside home improvement projects wont eat up my time(right now I am repointing a house and putting in a playground for my son whick involves close to 60 tons of pea gravel to be spead and contained. |
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Twohorses
New Member
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 14:13:04
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| I got a piece of corner bead at Home Depot. Its a metal "V" shaped long item. I screwed it above the coin slot and put a 2 liter-bottle cut in half on the other. Now, I just grab a handful, drop it in, and it goes to town. I'll post photos when I can. |
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linkster
New Member
USA
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Posted - 06/08/2010 : 23:09:51
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EnDThEFeD
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 06/09/2010 : 06:20:57
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I did see a video on youtube of someone who built something similar to what twohorses is talking about. Linkster is probably correct if you put too many in they would get jammed or incorrectly sorted. I was thinking of making the penny chute much longer to hold more cents as they go down into the comparitor. Any other ideas??
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Twohorses
New Member
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Posted - 06/09/2010 : 15:53:25
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| I settled on a long chute. Its easier to load the coins here than directly in the machine. Keeping it aligned needs work. |
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EnDThEFeD
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 06/10/2010 : 08:31:45
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I settled on a long chute. Its easier to load the coins here than directly in the machine. Keeping it aligned needs work.
Can you post a picture of your work? |
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Coinage
Penny Collector Member
Canada
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EnDThEFeD
Penny Sorter Member
33 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2010 : 06:30:07
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Good Job Twohorses! I did a similar set up using one of the Ryedale Comparitors...
I am interested in building a sorter of my own. Are there different brands/models of Comparitors? Do some have different sort speed capabilities? Which are the best? and where could I get one. I know ebay sells them, anywhere else? |
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Just finished my penny sorter this weekend
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