Coppers

[nero12345]

so i went through a few boxes of pennies today. now afterwards i always go through and hand sort to pick out any young queens and kings as well as any wheats and stuff, but rarely go through the rejects. so i started wrapping up the coins to go back and 3 rolls in i see a 1927 king george v. Then i found a wheat penny, then another george v. So then i had to hand sort the lot and found 3 george V, 4 george VI, 3 wheats. I thought of what else i've missed. Are ryedale's that sensetive that they'll accept 98% copper and reject 95.5%. i guess it depends on my settings though right? I do find wheats and all the others in my accepted ones usually.

[reddirtcoins]

Yep.. you have to fine tune.. The other day I had an epiphany as easy as it should have been from the beginning. What I normally do is just hand tone off of a zinc and back off from the point where they start to reject but this time, I took a sample of teens-40's and with the zinc in the accept. I then toned it all the way for the zinc and dumped in my wheats. Then I slowly adjusted from everything that had accepted. Wouldn't you know it... out come wheats from the zincs I was about to dump. So from now on I'm toning with my wheat samples.

[nero12345]

Yep.. you have to fine tune.. The other day I had an epiphany as easy as it should have been from the beginning. What I normally do is just hand tone off of a zinc and back off from the point where they start to reject but this time, I took a sample of teens-40's and with the zinc in the accept. I then toned it all the way for the zinc and dumped in my wheats. Then I slowly adjusted from everything that had accepted. Wouldn't you know it... out come wheats from the zincs I was about to dump. So from now on I'm toning with my wheat samples.

it seems like when i get it running good i have to switch it from pennies to a nickel setup and start all over. i've never had a problem before, i think. maybe just an off day for me and my buddy Mr.Ryedale.

[uthminsta]

it seems like when i get it running good i have to switch it from pennies to a nickel setup and start all over.

Nah, you just need to get a second Ryedale!

[tuleja]

I've heard many people say they find wheats and Indian heads in the zinc pile before I got my ryedale when I was learning about the machine in the forums. I spent some time fine tuning the sensitivity screw when I first got the ryedale.

I have always run a test batch before each run which includes an Indian head, wheats of each decade, a couple various dated non-wheat coppers, and a three zincs of various dates. If I end up with the three zincs separate from all others I run my coins.

I will usually go through a box of zincs once every two weeks to make sure nothing good shows up in it. So far so good.