Fish-scale shingles.

 

pre 82 gets saved for the copper content.
Post, I have a stash saved after I found out how well they work harden. You may not be making a broad head with one but sheathing a bolt tip isn't unreasonable.
They can also make good shims.

 

I think I have a 30 gallon barrel filled with pre 82 pennies I will eventually have to take care of. Been saving them since 82. Still not worth much kinda bugs me thought they would go up more but Ill still hold metal is metal. For making broad heads Use stainless steel spoons I saw somewhere somebody did it and had to try they actually flew pretty well and I got a chukar and a beaver with them just for fun.

 

. . . Nothings off the table, cutting, welding, shaping, etc, or using whole.

Just for the record . . .

18 U.S.C. § 333 : US Code - Section 333: Mutilation of national bank obligations

Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or
unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank
bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national
banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal
Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note,
or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

 

That isnt the complaet law because there is a provision if you do not attempt to enter the coin/note back into circulation. Something that most magicians have to know to keep our butts from getting arrested by uber cops.

 

Cut into 4 pieces several can be loaded for emergency shrapnel for a 12g shotgun shell.

Put a couple handfuls in a nylon or leather bag and you have a very primitive slap sack.

Checker or other game pieces in a pinch...

You can also line them in a circle around a plant in your garden making it impossible for slugs to gain access to your plant.

Put a penny in a gallon baggy filled with water and hang it around your campsite and the flies will not come near them.

Use a few pennies buried just under the soil to mark where you have buried and hidden non metal preps.

Keep a pot of them next to the fire (not too close), use them in a leather bag to keep you warm inside a tent after the fire goes out.

Trade them to the Indians for gold and diamonds. Just kidding.

 

About 8 to 10 Glued together makes a pretty good 12 gauge slug in a pinch.

Put a couple handfuls in a nylon or leather bag and you have a very primitive slap sack.

Checker or other game pieces in a pinch...

You can also line them in a circle around a plant in your garden making it impossible for slugs to gain access to your plant.

Put a penny in a gallon baggy filled with water and hang it around your campsite and the flies will not come near them.

Use a few pennies buried just under the soil to mark where you have buried and hidden non metal preps.

Keep a pot of them next to the fire (not too close), use them in a leather bag to keep you warm inside a tent after the fire goes out.

Trade them to the Indians for gold and diamonds. Just kidding.

Try rolling a penny down your slug barrel, they don't fit. Dimes do though...


hick

 

Back in the day when I worked on big radial aircraft engines, the copper ones were used for gaskets after annealing them. I guess they could be used for diesel injector gaskets?

 

Replacement buttons, or snare locks for trapping small game.

 

i use them for washers all the time

 

Same here. Cheaper than washers.

Try rolling a penny down your slug barrel, they don't fit. Dimes do though...
hick

If you are referring to using it as a projectile, check out the Myth buster episode. It doesnt work to well.

 

possibly if you can ,melt them and reshape them into pretty much what ever you want or use them for welding things.They actually go pretty far with a slingshot and hit hard.

 

i always thought about melting the pre 82 ones down to make fmj coatings on cast bullets. just a theory though.

 

Make a set of swage die and punchs. no need to melt anything. I've been thinking about this myself. The penny would have enough metal to make a pretty big projectile jacket. Just buy some lead wire and get busy!

 

Would love to see the result of a fmj made of melted down pre 82's

 

Pennies in my life.

My third wolfdog was Penny, perhaps she would have been a better dog had I named her Dollar.
I have a 1909 Indian Head that has been cut out in relief. Someone did nice work.
Souvenir's from the penny masher at interesting places like Meteor Crater.
<82 are drilled to use as washers or with copper wire for rivets.
>82 are thrown in wood stove 5 at a time to clean door window and the pipe, soldered to items for galvanized effect.

 

There's always fruit powered batteries. Pair up your pennies with nickles or dimes and you can make cheap flashlights with citrus fruit. Hell, try rebuilding GladOs with a potato.

 

zinc pennys can be used to repair galvinized surface .google zinc hot stick

 

spit on them and put them in the vending machine. You might trick it into thinking it is a nickel. isn't that a trick from "Steal This Book"?

They used to be used in breakers instead of fuses. My dad found an indian head penny in the breaker box when we moved into an old house back in the early sixties.

 

collect a hundred of them and you can trade them in on a crisp one dollar bill. Then you can make a paper ring out of it.:

 

I would roll those pennies up in to wraps, go get the $11 and buy a box of rounds.

 

I've used pennies as washers, shims, and as a hole cover after making repairs in a jon boat bottom using JB Weld. Somebody jabbed a pen knife through the boat's bottom and I pushed the hole's edges back together and with JB Weld and the penny made a strong leak proof repair.

Drill enough of them in the center and you could make fish hook sinkers, too.

Saw a McGyver show once where he used a quarter for a quickie weld job, so pennies could be used as round welding chips if you can wrap them in something flammable to burn up the oxygen around them as the metal is heated and melted. You don't want oxygen mixing in with your welds, so I've been taught.

Forum discussion on welding coins together. Has tips and hints on how to melt pennies for welding.
http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=42275

 

Save nickles too and learn how to make batteries from them.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Penny-and-Nickel-Battery/

Other electrolytes besides salt water can be used.
Google away.

 

Use for copper pennies

I've always wanted to take the copper pennies and make solid copper bullets out of them. Barnes and a few other manufacturers make solid bullets, very $$$. This way you don't have to worry about jacket/core separation if it should strike a hard object. Not to mention the increased muzzle velocity, due to lighter bullet weight.

Has anyone else had this idea/tried to make some? I was wondering how well they come out of the molds.

 

A penny made before 1982(I think, could be 84) have 3 cents worth of copper in them.

 

1981 and earlier are 95% copper. 1982's only can be either 95% copper or copper plated zinc. You need to weigh them to be certain 3.11 grams for the 95% copper ones and only 2.5 grams for the zinc plated ones. 1983 and newer are ALL copper plated.

 

I mix 100 zinc pennies to 10lbs of wheel weights to make my cast bullets.:thumb:



Al

 

Dang! You like it hard don't you! Must be for centerfire, huh? I used to cast straight wheel weights for my .44 magnum and they worked just fine. There were no zinc pennies back then.

 

Save yer post '82 pennies and trade 'em in for nickels...

 

Saw a guy use pennies as washers. Said her wen to buy some washers at the store to use while building a cabinet and they were 3 cents a piece. Came out cheaper putting a hole in a penny and using it that way. I think the guy still uses the cabinet (guitar cab) somewhere in Georgia.

 

When we were going through some hard times earlier this year, I took a bunch of pennies to the self-checkout at the store and bought some milk for my kids.

Not an exciting story, but true.