Dave Ashurst
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 posted on 13/3/04 at 10:06 PM |
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Magnetic coins
UK 2003 2p and 1p coins are attracted to magnets!
Sorry, just had to tell someone.
My son was making an annoying clicky noise when I was trying to hear the breakfast-time weather forecast recently. Magnet and 2p! I couldn't
believe it. Now he's made a magnetic coin sculpture.
What's the economy coming to?
At least we don't have aluminium coins yet.
Dave
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flak monkey
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| posted on 13/3/04 at 10:13 PM |
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The 'coppers' have been magnetic for a few years  ... cant remember for how long though. But i know they are made of copper-plated steel
 since about 1992 i think! Im sure you can find out on google or something
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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flak monkey
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| posted on 13/3/04 at 10:15 PM |
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Just found it
http://www.royalmint.com/talk/goingdecimal.asp
theres a load about the coins there, and what they are made of...take a look at the 1992 entry.
Cheers
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Dave Ashurst
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| posted on 13/3/04 at 10:21 PM |
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REally!!?
Well it's news to me anyway. Guess I've been out of this country of yours too long.
We did line up all our loose coppers (a sorry sight) along the arm of the chair and passed a little magnet along the line. Nothing moved until the
2003 2p jumped up several mm onto the magnet.
I'm going to check them again tomorrow.
I feel a letter to my MP coming on.
Yours
Concerned of Leamington.
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Dave Ashurst
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| posted on 13/3/04 at 10:28 PM |
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And what are you doing on the computer at half past ten on a Saturday night anyway, David?!
I thought you were supposed to be a student!
Get back out there.
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flak monkey
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| posted on 13/3/04 at 10:41 PM |
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Ummm....term has finished and theres nothing on at the union. Though last night they covered the dance floor with 2 tons of sand and had a beach
party!!
Cheers
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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steve m
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| posted on 13/3/04 at 11:31 PM |
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I can see why Hippy left !!!!!!!!!!1
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 13/3/04 at 11:38 PM |
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'stamps down all decency and craps on its grave'
strong emotions, those ferrous decimal coints must invoke!
Just to make it a bit more nurdy.....
ever wondered why you cant just use any old disk to fool a vending machine into thinking its a real coin?
Weight? Thickness? Nope.
Modern coin mechanisms are electronic. They use a signal amplitude and phase shift effect to work out the mass and type of metal / alloy (signature)
that the coin is made of.
If it doesnt see the right 'mix' of alloys or correct mass (signal) for the coin, it refuses it.
atb
steve
[Edited on 13/3/04 by stephen_gusterson]
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 14/3/04 at 02:05 PM |
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here is one for the anarchists amounst you.
Our recently departed (sacked) MD was also the past MD of a parking meter company. The big box type at car parks and the like where you feed it with
coins and get a windscreen sticker.
Squirting non - diet coke into the coin mechanism really fu&^s them up.....big time expensive damage.
Dont do this whatever you do as it costs the local authority lots of money and prevents people from parking legally by paying.
atb
steve
[Edited on 14/3/04 by stephen_gusterson]
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Dave Ashurst
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| posted on 14/3/04 at 06:01 PM |
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Fascinating.. Why non-diet?
What he was sacked for this time?
Dave
P.S.
quote:
I can see why Hippy left !!!!!!!!!!
Please don't leave, SteveM 
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JoelP
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| posted on 14/3/04 at 06:39 PM |
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a gentleman i dont know made many thousands of circular discs like £1 coins, with the middle drilled to correct the weight. He pumped thousands thru
fruit machines around the area, just taking any winnings to swap as many as he could. eventually gave up cos it became too hard to find machines that
werent corrected to stop accepting them. this must've been around 1999/2000. the metal looked like brass. quite a serious offence for not much
return though...
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 14/3/04 at 07:46 PM |
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basically our MD was a whizz kid from the bank that owned our company. Between he and his co director, they were allegedly paid 2m quid over 3 years
to turn our company around. It was worth approx 16m when he took over, and when it was sold to a competitor a month ago, it sold for 5m. Not a massive
success methinks. Interesting thing is the co that bought us was in a worse state making less money than us! There is a technique apparently that
buying and joining two companies together can make a better more profitable one.
Its an interesting time anyway.
Normal coke is very sticky and also corrosive. I spilt a bit on my beemers window switch, and its not been right since!
atb
steve
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Dave Ashurst
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| posted on 14/3/04 at 08:05 PM |
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quote:
buying and joining two companies together can make a better more profitable one.
Well, I certainly hope it works Steve.
An interesting time! I can believe it.
quote:
serious offence for not much return though...
Joel,
did he get caught?
Dave
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JoelP
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| posted on 14/3/04 at 08:52 PM |
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nope, but hes still a mug trying to make a living off fruities! 10 years at it, always on the verge of homelessness! he actually bought the coins at
30p each of the guy who made them originally, but i think he joined the show too late. didnt find too many machines that took them. he had bloody
boxes full of the damn things!
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MikeR
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| posted on 15/3/04 at 12:35 AM |
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hmmm, is now the time to admit that my mate has just joined the largest maker / supplier of fruit machines in the uk?
Its amazing how profitable the business is....
And did you know that all the machines made by his company are connected to head office via a broadband ADSL connection????
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JoelP
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| posted on 15/3/04 at 09:19 AM |
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oops...
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splitrivet
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| posted on 15/3/04 at 12:19 PM |
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Im surprised that you guys didnt know that the Government has been making our coins magnetic for some time.
The reason for this is they are erecting a giant electromagnet at Westminster so that they can suck all the dosh out of our pockets this will save em
using the usual means of ripping us off ie tax,vat,speed cameras etc,so that they can make all staff in these various agencies redundant.
Plans are to magnetise paper of course before they finally fire up the electromagnet.
Cheers,
Bob
I used to be a Werewolf but I'm alright nowwoooooooooooooo
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Peteff
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| posted on 15/3/04 at 01:17 PM |
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Fruit Machines?
We buy our fruit from a shop, do they do a dispenser for it now? Do you mean Bandits cos if you do they are built by thieves and named after them. It
says on the one in our local, guaranteed 60% payout or greater. I put 10p in it last year and I still haven't seen my 6p return. Last years tax
form was simplified to help the hard of thinking. How much did you earn last year. Send it to us.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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splitrivet
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| posted on 15/3/04 at 01:29 PM |
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Dont talk to me about Tax I hope everyone working at the Inland Revenue gets a serious disease that causes thier gonads to drop off.
If anyone from the revenue is reading this my name is Ned and I live downsouth somewhere
[Edited on 15/3/04 by splitrivet]
I used to be a Werewolf but I'm alright nowwoooooooooooooo
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