Cool Work Gizmo!

[charlotte49er]

I just bought a cool piece of equipment for my new business.

It's called a coin comparator. You can set it up for either silver coins of pennies. Silver coins aren't to hard to spot, just look at the edge of the coin. If its Silver then it's a silver coin, if it's either silver & black or multi-colored it has 40% or less silver. (Not to hard to sort.)

Pennies, though are tough to sort. I have been doing it by weight, copper pennies weigh 3+ grams while zinc pennies weigh around 2.5 grams. A lot of times, with my eyesight, I can't read the date. The scale worked well.

I had to build a box, but you turn this little thing on and it sorts out the copper pennies from the zinc plated ones! All you have to do is feed the pennies into it. (Eventually, I will fabricate a Hopper and slide for it.)

Once I Have all the silver coins and copper pennies sorted, al I have to do is run them through the coin counter!

What cool gizmo do you have for your business?

[Skew]

Jbro was telling me about this neat gizmo he got just last week at his job. It's this plastic stick that is curved at one end in such a way that it fits comfortably in your hand. On the other end of the stick is a metal loop. All around the loop are short metal wires that stick straight out from the loop in all direction going completely around the whole loop.

He says it works great for cleaning the toilets at the elementary school.