pauldm
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| posted on 19/11/07 at 10:56 PM |
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Cool ring from a coin.
I think we would all have the tools & skill to make one of these. Not strictly legal though.
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 20/11/07 at 11:15 AM |
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That's quite cool. Are UK coins soft enough to do that though?
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graememk
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| posted on 20/11/07 at 04:36 PM |
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thats going to take hours / days to do
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 20/11/07 at 06:30 PM |
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It takes no time at all!
Use a turned to size punch, drill out a die from a scrap of 1/2in plate and a lump hammer, then fit it to a wooden dowel, put in drill press and
polish up the outside.
We used to make them from half-crowns when I was an apprentice.
[Edited on 20/11/07 by Confused but excited.]
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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oadamo
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| posted on 20/11/07 at 09:06 PM |
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iam gonna try that tomorrow with a 2 pound coin you can knock the middle out of them very easy 
adam
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locoboy
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| posted on 20/11/07 at 09:44 PM |
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Mr Confused .........you have confused me!
Can you explain for dumb people without the engineering tool terminology?
Adam,
How do you nock the middle out of a £2 coin?
ATB
Locoboy
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oadamo
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| posted on 20/11/07 at 10:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by locoboy
Mr Confused .........you have confused me!
Can you explain for dumb people without the engineering tool terminology?
Adam,
How do you nock the middle out of a £2 coin?
put it on a socket and hit the middle with a hammer lol you can knock them back in aswell
adam
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 20/11/07 at 10:44 PM |
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technically I beleive that is treason, as is throwing away a coin.
Good job the death penilty option the queen has is usually overlooked.
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Simon
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| posted on 20/11/07 at 11:55 PM |
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Supposing you are a Republican and thoroughly against the idea of a monarchy, would the Human Rights act not cover your right to coinage
without a piccy of the king or queen
In much the same way as you can swear on the bible in court, or if an atheist give your word!
ATB
Simon
[Edited on 20/11/07 by Simon]
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Krismc
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| posted on 21/11/07 at 03:40 PM |
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but when the coin becomes a ring...its no longer a coin and therefore you aint breaking the law as that applies to coins!!
Built, Ivaed, Drove and now Sold - 2011 MNR VORTX RT+ 2000cc Zetec on R1 Throttle boddies.
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 21/11/07 at 04:03 PM |
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It's not treason but it is in the Coinage Act (1972 or something) that you cannot melt down or otherwise destroy coins. Don't know what
the theoretical penalty is but you'd never get done for it unless you were melting down coins on a large scale for profit. Really you're
just doing your bit for keeping inflation down!
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 21/11/07 at 04:08 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by oadamo
quote:
Originally posted by locoboy
Mr Confused .........you have confused me!
Can you explain for dumb people without the engineering tool terminology?
Adam,
How do you nock the middle out of a £2 coin?
put it on a socket and hit the middle with a hammer lol you can knock them back in aswell
adam
Or if you want to try it at your desk. Rest the edge on 3/4 other identical coins then put a couple of 5p coins on top and hit with a suitable heavy
object.
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 21/11/07 at 08:15 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by locoboy
Mr Confused .........you have confused me!
Can you explain for dumb people without the engineering tool terminology?
Adam,
How do you nock the middle out of a £2 coin?
I did not suggest removing the centre portion of a two pound coin. the person that did appears to have removed that posting.
What I described was how we used to make rings from a half-crown piece:
1) Turn up a drift, the o/d of which equals the desired i/d of the ring you wish to make.
2) Cetre punch a piece of half inch plate, big enough to use as a die. Scribe a circle about this mark equal to the outside diameter of the coin.
3) Drill out a hole, centered on the punch mark, in the piece of 1/2" plate, to use as a die. The hole diameter should be the clearance diameter
of the drift. Then counter bore the hole for half its depth, the clearance diameter of the drift+ twice the thickness of the coin + 10thou
4) Ease the leading edge of the hole in the die.
5) Place the coin in the circle and cetre the drift on the coin.
6) Smack the drift with the lump hammer until the coin edge is forced into the die and the drift punches out the centre of the coin.
7) Fit the crude ring onto a suitable piece of dowel and polish up the outside.
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Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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Davey D
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| posted on 21/11/07 at 11:27 PM |
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here is the legal boomf on modifying coins: when you use one of them penny rolling machines to make a token it is usually printed on them:
The process of creating elongated coins is legal in the United States, Japan, South Africa and parts of Europe. In the United States, U.S. Code Title
18, Chapter 17, Section 331 prohibits "the mutilation, diminution and falsification of United States coinage." The foregoing statute,
however, does not prohibit the mutilation of coins if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently, i.e., with the intention of creating counterfeit
coinage. Because elongated coins are made mainly as souvenirs, mutilation for this purpose is legal. While it is no longer illegal in the United
Kingdom to mutilate the image of the Queen, it is still illegal in Canada. There, blank planchets, slugs or U.S. pennies are occasionally used, though
this law is often ignored both by the users of the machine and law enforcement.
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RK
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| posted on 21/11/07 at 11:37 PM |
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Well, the way our dollar is going, we wouldn't WANT to destroy any loonies!
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oadamo
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| posted on 21/11/07 at 11:47 PM |
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have you ever been to blackpool where you can roll your own 1p well who hasnt been there lol. anyway who gives a crap if i dont it will only get
blowed on fags or crap from the shop anyway lol.
adam
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indykid
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| posted on 23/11/07 at 06:57 PM |
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yep, the penny rolling machines say the defacing of currency bit got revoked or whatever in the late 80s early 90s iirc.
long and short of it, you can do what you want to coins in england.
tom
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