Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3077336, member: 27832&quot;]Well, for starters, no US coin machine is going to accept anything that&#039;s <i>magnetic</i>. Steel slugs -- electric-box punch-outs, washers, and the like -- are probably the most common thing you&#039;ll encounter that&#039;s roughly the size and shape of a coin, but isn&#039;t one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think most mechanisms also detect the different performance of different metals as they go by those magnets and experience <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current" rel="nofollow">eddy currents</a>. So, you&#039;re right, they probably <i>do</i> make an effort to reject off-metal items -- but they&#039;ll reject things by weight, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in