Hi Rich,
OK I am going to start from the beginning of my CRH days to explain how and why I worked up to my Ryedale to see if the situation is right for you.
First of I started CRH as a hobby to fullfill my time. I was hurt on the job(thus my recurring back injury) and took early retirement at age 35. I started out just going to a bunch of banks in the area asking for halves. After about two weeks I bought all the halves that were sitting around and started ordering boxes. The halves boxes dont produce so I switched to nickels and pennies. I love wheats so when I started finding them cosistantly I was thrilled and then the greedyness that most of us CRHers have kicked in and I wanted more... So I started ordering $200 a week worth of pennies(8 boxes). I then read something about the copper selling for more than a penny. I did some research and found a few outlets to sell it, really not much of a profit but at the time I was hand sorting so it was just a little extra time involved to make a few bucks. I did that for about a month and kept the money aside that I sold the copper for. Then I got hooed up with someone on this forum and bought there used Ryedale(and I cant thank him enough for the great machine). When I got the machine I upped my boxes to $300 twice a week(24 boxes a week). Again the main reason was for the Rydale was this way I only had to hand sort the 30% copper for wheats and not all of the pennies.
To Sum it up... I know it dragged on, I just don't want you to spend a lot of money unless you are going to get the use out of it.
1- If you are doing it JUST for the copper, try to line up buyers now they are not easy to come by.
2- Mantenance is not that bad, but MUST clean machine often, Pennies are DIRTY.
3- I have the $400 model, I got it with 800,000 on the counter it now has 2.5 million and still runs strong.
4- I love my machine
5- You say "not interested in numismatics". Why? that is where you are going to see more profit. If you plan on running a bunch of pennies through it you have a great chance of finding a key date wheat or semi-key date wheat. It is easy to sort the copper after by hand.
Well I hope this helps.
silvercop said:
it is a neat little machine. i wish someone made one that would sort silver dimes from clad.
UMMM it will. you can also get a plate that will seperate nickels. A lot of Canadian users use it up there to seperate "nickel" nickels from "copper-Nickel" nickels.
The thing with using it for dimes it is a lot faster to rim search than feed them into the machine. Silver dimes are not concetrated enough to make it worth wild to use the machine.
I have tried it with "US" nickels and it does seperate war nickels out. But just not time worthy.
Happy Hunting,
Jason
I am mechanically retarded.
