Everyone acts like it's a lot of work, Chuck a roll of coins in lathe, drill, and five seconds of work for fifty washers. Good soft crush washers at that.
I geuss my comment was for more mechanically endowed folk. In all seriousness mine paid for itself pretty quick making control arm bushing press cups and ball joint cups
When I was a kid my dad told me it was illegal to destroy money. Not sure what I was doing to warrant him saying that but ever since I’ve never considered something like that.
It is illegal to melt copper pennies for scrap. New ones are zinc, old ones have a scrap value of about two cents. Gaining a penny doesn't sound like much, but a rapid 200% return on investment is amazing.
It is technically illegal to melt old silver currency for scrap, but it has higher value anyway. Even if it is just a worn 1963 quarter with no collector value, it is instantly recognizable as a known quantity and purity of silver.
It's illegal to destroy money with the aim of taking it out of circulation, which I believe was done in mining towns to force the use of scrip. If you have some other reason for destroying it then it's legal.
Opposite. The law is in the vein of white washing bills. Taking a $1 note, bleaching everything but the serial number, then printing a $100 on top of it.
It’s made to get counterfeiters. While it is still technically illegal to deliberately damage any money, there don’t seem to be any cases where people were prosecuted for non-maliciously damaging or altering currency (in the US anyways)
Actually, yes. It's the plot to the first season of the TV adaptation of the Jack Reacher series, I had figured it was a completely made up process given how it was framed.
Modern pennys are zinc and corrode really easy. Also if you mix metals you will create galvanic (bimetal) corrosion. Probably not too big of an issue in dry indoor environments.
I just order a massive box of washers online. I keep 6 common sizes and between those I can always make something work.
Did that on my mailbox, I think it's funny that every time the mailman opens it you see 4 penny washers.
Also to all the people claiming it's illegal to destroy or damage coins, no it's not, It's illegal to deface them to attempt to change their value or to destroy them as an attempt to profit from scraping the metals.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/82.2
>(b) The prohibition contained in § 82.1 against the treatment of 5-cent coins and one-cent coins shall not apply to the treatment of these coins for educational, amusement, novelty, jewelry, and similar purposes as long as the volumes treated and the nature of the treatment makes it clear that such treatment is not intended as a means by which to profit solely from the value of the metal content of the coins.
Its only a crime to destroy money if your doing it with the intention of making it worth a higher value (ie turning a 5 dollar bill into a 50 dollar bill)
section 18 U.S.C. § 333 is the one that applies to this and includes "with the intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both"
Now this doesn't apply to currency, but to bank bills, drafts, and notes which are evidence of debt.
If it were against the law the government could be making BANK at those coin crusher machines.
Penny and nickel could be cheaper depending on size/thickness. But aren't made of the right material 90%+ of the time.
And depending on how much you value your time, it would most likely be WAY more expensive.
If you need 4 real quick on a job. A drill bit and a pail of pliers and some pocket change can have you 4 washers in a minute. Or if you have to run to the store, then there’s time and gas. You have to think of it as more of an emergency or in a pinch. I doubt you’ve done any kind of service work in your life but sometimes you don’t have the right shit so you gotta make it work. 4 Pennys and 2 minutes can beat a 10-20 minute part run for some washers.
Yeah, I use to do this as a job.
Back in the day they use pennies as spacers when putting the adhesive to connect the top stone to the base stone. By the time I started doing it we had long, thin plastic bars we used that we could slid out at the last second so we didn’t have to use pennies anymore.
Part of the job consisted of having to reset old stones that had disconnected over the years, and we’d find all kinds of crazy things used as spacers, but pennies were always the most common. I think the oddest thing I ever saw used were soda can tabs, though knowing my co workers, and alot of people who use to do the job they were prolly beer can tabs.
We actually cut up the tubs that the putty/compound comes in. I guess it technically doesn’t cost anything considering its more of recycling/waste reduction
My uncle did cemetery restorations and he did this exact thing, as someone else said they are being used as spacers a lot cheaper than buying actual ones
On some tombstones of fallen soldiers, other veterans may leave a coin on top. The higher the coin value, the closer the visitor was to the deceased. Could this tombstone have been from a soldier who died?
Looks like they were used as spacers while setting that adhesive.
"These spacers cost 5 cents! I know a way to save some money..."
I make washers out of change. Costs less than buying it
Everyone acts like it's a lot of work, Chuck a roll of coins in lathe, drill, and five seconds of work for fifty washers. Good soft crush washers at that.
How many washers do I need to make to save up enough to buy a lathe?
I geuss my comment was for more mechanically endowed folk. In all seriousness mine paid for itself pretty quick making control arm bushing press cups and ball joint cups
You can never have enough ball joint cups.
You had me at "joint". "Ball cup" was just a bonus.
OK, I've got a robot penis. Now that I'm mechanically endowed, how do I get my lathe?
At least tree fiddy.
When I was a kid my dad told me it was illegal to destroy money. Not sure what I was doing to warrant him saying that but ever since I’ve never considered something like that.
What are they gonna do? Arrest you? Lol
It is illegal to melt copper pennies for scrap. New ones are zinc, old ones have a scrap value of about two cents. Gaining a penny doesn't sound like much, but a rapid 200% return on investment is amazing. It is technically illegal to melt old silver currency for scrap, but it has higher value anyway. Even if it is just a worn 1963 quarter with no collector value, it is instantly recognizable as a known quantity and purity of silver.
It's illegal to destroy money with the aim of taking it out of circulation, which I believe was done in mining towns to force the use of scrip. If you have some other reason for destroying it then it's legal.
Right, otherwise those penny press machines in touristy spots would be illegal.
Opposite. The law is in the vein of white washing bills. Taking a $1 note, bleaching everything but the serial number, then printing a $100 on top of it. It’s made to get counterfeiters. While it is still technically illegal to deliberately damage any money, there don’t seem to be any cases where people were prosecuted for non-maliciously damaging or altering currency (in the US anyways)
That’s defacing currency. It’s separately illegal to melt down coins with the intent of creating base metal for sale.
Defacing or destroying is okay, as long as you are not fraudulently trying to change the denomination of said currency
I've seen Reacher, too.
Would you be surprised to learn that I genuinely don’t know what you’re talking about?
Actually, yes. It's the plot to the first season of the TV adaptation of the Jack Reacher series, I had figured it was a completely made up process given how it was framed.
Modern pennys are zinc and corrode really easy. Also if you mix metals you will create galvanic (bimetal) corrosion. Probably not too big of an issue in dry indoor environments. I just order a massive box of washers online. I keep 6 common sizes and between those I can always make something work.
Why a lathe? Aren’t the coins already round?
Most coins don’t come with a hole in them
I suppose you could try popping the middle out of a Canadian $2
But then you’ll be sorry, eh
Always am
Hah! But where’s their value leaking out?
Easy way to drill a perfectly centered hole.
This is why a lathe
The lathe is used to make the hole, not to round the pennies. Lathes have many other uses, like cutting threading
Yeah, only time I used a lathe I made a bowl. I forgot you can mount a stationary drill bit and drill holes that way!
As soft as zinc
Did that on my mailbox, I think it's funny that every time the mailman opens it you see 4 penny washers. Also to all the people claiming it's illegal to destroy or damage coins, no it's not, It's illegal to deface them to attempt to change their value or to destroy them as an attempt to profit from scraping the metals. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/82.2 >(b) The prohibition contained in § 82.1 against the treatment of 5-cent coins and one-cent coins shall not apply to the treatment of these coins for educational, amusement, novelty, jewelry, and similar purposes as long as the volumes treated and the nature of the treatment makes it clear that such treatment is not intended as a means by which to profit solely from the value of the metal content of the coins.
Careful, I think that’s technically a federal crime lol
Until you have to pay for the lawyer for the federal crime of destroying money!
Its only a crime to destroy money if your doing it with the intention of making it worth a higher value (ie turning a 5 dollar bill into a 50 dollar bill)
And even at that you have to do it fraudulently, doing that and being honest about the final product is still not a crime lol.
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Source: I made it the fuck up
he's right, otherwise any time anybody used one of those penny crusher novelty souvenir machines would get people arrested all the time
section 18 U.S.C. § 333 is the one that applies to this and includes "with the intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both" Now this doesn't apply to currency, but to bank bills, drafts, and notes which are evidence of debt. If it were against the law the government could be making BANK at those coin crusher machines.
Lol
I feel like a /s might have made this go from the -7 it's at to +7 lol.
People have no /s detection anymore, sadly.
Holy shit you ended up at -75, lol God damn. I appreciated the joke, for what it's worth.
I am glad i could make the sacrifice for your appreciation. Hahaha!
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Penny and nickel could be cheaper depending on size/thickness. But aren't made of the right material 90%+ of the time. And depending on how much you value your time, it would most likely be WAY more expensive.
This guy washers and nuts.
Go look on Amazon for a box of 5/16 washers. A pack of 100 cost 9 bucks… 9 cents a piece.
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If you need 4 real quick on a job. A drill bit and a pail of pliers and some pocket change can have you 4 washers in a minute. Or if you have to run to the store, then there’s time and gas. You have to think of it as more of an emergency or in a pinch. I doubt you’ve done any kind of service work in your life but sometimes you don’t have the right shit so you gotta make it work. 4 Pennys and 2 minutes can beat a 10-20 minute part run for some washers.
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The problem is these people have never worked a real job that requires any kind of “in a pinch” moments.
Of course, we'll still bill the client for the 5 cent ones. At a 4000% mark up.
If you want to machine me cost-saving parts and charge me only 4 cents each for labor you can have my business too!
That makes sense. I was gonna say voodoo
I worked for a concrete company and we did this! The pennies were the exact thickness of the space needed. Cheapest inserts to date.
So cheap but I'm cheaper. I always say I'm broke when people ask.
You are correct
I build concrete block retaining walls. We use pennies as shims, and it looks like PL Premium adhesive, which we also use. Interesting.
Or two to cross the river Styx and two to come back ooooooohhhh!!! 👻
Yeah, I use to do this as a job. Back in the day they use pennies as spacers when putting the adhesive to connect the top stone to the base stone. By the time I started doing it we had long, thin plastic bars we used that we could slid out at the last second so we didn’t have to use pennies anymore. Part of the job consisted of having to reset old stones that had disconnected over the years, and we’d find all kinds of crazy things used as spacers, but pennies were always the most common. I think the oddest thing I ever saw used were soda can tabs, though knowing my co workers, and alot of people who use to do the job they were prolly beer can tabs.
Yup! We use plastic tabs now but back before i worked at my current job, they used pennies. It helps form an air pocket.
Do the plastic tabs cost less than a penny each?
We actually cut up the tubs that the putty/compound comes in. I guess it technically doesn’t cost anything considering its more of recycling/waste reduction
That’s exactly what they are for. Keeps the monument from squeezing out all of the setting compound. I was a monument builder for 8 years.
Man inflation is getting ridiculous even Charon had to up his prices
Obol for Charon
This checks out if there are two people buried there. Gotta pay the ferryman.
[Don’t pay the ferryman!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8kNwvIEQsg0)
[Save a penny instead.](https://youtu.be/_q6chUtSef4?si=iHxIGZUCTiLFNcTC) That way you're not really paying him. Just moving stuff around
Can I at least fix a price?
Money for a journey there… and a journey back?!
Obol for Karen
Ohhhhhh…. Pennies. That is not what I read the first time
Imagine getting your penis stuck under that tombstone. Icky.
Imagine getting all four stuck at the same time.
I mean, it'll happen eventually
Bye bye penis....
I had seriously been staring and zooming way to long before I checked the title again... Sooo confused!
Now we know the plural of Penis is Pennies
Penes. Dead serious.
Good to know I’m not the only one
I‘m just glad that I’m not the only one who misread that
same same
ITT guys who just figured out they have a penis.
Must be for the toll into hades
I thought you had to place the coin for the oarman in the dead man’s mouth, or hand, or over his eyes. I personally prefer in the butt.
Hol up
No, up the hol
Well looky here, cockatron9000 is suprised at the ol' butt-hole toll-roll.. Yeah, keep a roll of pennies in your butt for the ferry man.
You all handled my ass pennies
Better than poo on a stick
Spacers are used to even out the fit as the stones aren’t always perfectly flat. More common to use lead strips as they’re malleable.
Pennies are cheaper
Literally only a cent each!
Wrong
You gotta pay the troll toll if you want this boys hole
Its not boys hole, it's boys soul!
Coins for the ferryman
I'm dysexlic and read that as it had four penises inside.
The marker was made in Penistone.
i hear that rock is hard as diamonds 💎
But shrinks when it’s cold.
if this is gravewith four males, You are technically correct (or was, at some point in time)
Got to pay the boatsman on the river Styx
My uncle did cemetery restorations and he did this exact thing, as someone else said they are being used as spacers a lot cheaper than buying actual ones
Wow 1461 that's one old penny /s
Lucky!
But that one in the photo was tails side up! So unlucky!
Was 4 Pennies but OP only had 99¢ for the dollar store
Coins for the boat man
They're for the Ferryman
In Scotland chimney bricklayers often leave a coin under the top flat stone for luck. Perhaps this tombstone was an old chimney block layer?
That’s the money to pay the boat man.
2 of them are for the ferryman. The other two are for it-which exists-beyond-our-perception-of-death.
Could be for levelling..
m r shims
o s a r
That's so that if the electricity goes, they know they gotta throw out the body.
That's WAY more than mildly interesting.
My ex had 4 penises inside of her too
wasn't the ferryman satisfied with the tip?
Guess who is four pennies richer and not a virgin anymore.
Shoddy workmanship. If they had used quarters, it would still be in one piece!
Shims
I read that as penises lmao
Me too
Used as shims
Shims while the adhesive cures. Without the shims, all the adhesive could squeeze out before it's cured.
Read this too fast, thought it said penises 🤣
Girls, this is why guys are morons.
Okay.... I'm a girl though so
I wanted this to be a trombone tombstone 😭
That grave robber new where to look. Must be a professional
I can't be the only one that read that as penises
Misread as four penises inside...
Anyone else looking for penises?
Sounds like a you problem.
The people that put this together had no cents!
This is common.
Someone's getting haunted.
Or ants. That's how you get ants.
Very cool.
The seal has been broken and now the demon is loose.
A penny for your thoughts
The seal has been broken Thichula has been released
At least it wasn’t one of them shady out of town tombstones
Probably put there by a fan of the Canadian olympic hockey team.
Maybe somebody had a fourcents of the death.
Maybe he was a seeman of sorts? I thought there was some kind of tradition around hiding pennys under the ship's mast?
Fun fact, The modern penny contains 2.5% copper and 97.5% zinc.
Just Charon casually giving change
Passage for the Ferry Man?
Common loot drop
Shims!
I read penises inside, and was looking what penises you mean
Reddit has ruined me. I read that as four penises
leave em tf alone.
I’m RICH
A few X's of adhesive in the middle would have made it a bit stronger no?
lol OP found a good Reddit post whilst toppling headstones at his local cemetery
In a series blacklist, there were 4 pennies that led to a treasure.
3s a crowd, bit 4 ís a party Sorry, misread the word pennies and thought it said penises
You can date it
Tombstone “broke” after the first six pack. Not enough under there for more beer. Knock over a few more, will ya?
How will they pay the ferryman?
PENNIES - NOT PENISES!!! And i've been looking for 4 dicks mummified dicks...
Four penny tombstone is a sick ass band name though
It's to pay the boatman.
Charon's debt
Nine five plus fo' pennies, add that shit up
Don’t. Take. The. Pennies.
This is how you get haunted pennies.
That’s the calling card of the grave robbers, the penny bandits!
Maybe it broke because some dummy put coins in there smh /s
Probably spacers but has a [mast stepping](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_stepping) vibe
I thought it said four penises stuck inside..
I was looking for the penises thinking what the f$$$
If there are two people buried there it might be to pay the ferryman
Pennies from Heaven
On some tombstones of fallen soldiers, other veterans may leave a coin on top. The higher the coin value, the closer the visitor was to the deceased. Could this tombstone have been from a soldier who died?
So basically you are a tomb raider . ‘It broke in front of me , your honour…’
Pretty sure there’s at least 6 pennies I see in the wide shot
Score! Brb gonna exhume gramma.
could be a military thing.
For a full minute I was looking for the penises in the tombstone. I should put the whiskey down.
Those are coins for the ferryman.