Woodworking: How to build a self-sorting coin bank
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I made a self-sorting coin toy bank for my son out of scrap cherry hardwood. Had some fun thinking this one up and experimenting along the way. It works, but I think I now want to make a gear-driven hopper/feeder for it!
So many people commenting about how inefficient this is as an actual coin sorter. May I remind you that THIS IS A TOY for my son, not a prototype coin sorter for the Federal Reserve. Relax! LOL!
But if you read the description, I did mention that in a future video I may make a hopper and a gear-driven loader for coins. We'll see if I get around to it. Lots of other videos to work on!
Fisher's Shop Note the many who pretend to know more than anyone else and yet will probably never take the time to make one as good much less better than.. Oh well. Let them go on and on about their alleged brilliance..
I would love to make one like this!
The only problem is, in Australia, we have the 50 cents coin being a polygon and it doesn’t roll very well.
I remember my older brother used to make models for me at Christmas presents when I was too little to do it myself...
I absolutely enjoyed watching my brother at work, and seeing the bits and pieces slowly and gradually coming together on his workbench...
The best gift you can give to a kid. Thank you once again.
I know you said this is a toy, and it's a great one for the kids, and while I was watching the video I was trying to figure the best way to put a piece of Plexiglas on it to stop the coins from possibly going everywhere (like at the end of the video LoL) and using short pvc tube for the coin to drop straight into the jar. Thank you for a great project and the inspiration. I'm thinking of making one of these for my nephew.
@@yjbmwsc thats interesting!
That is pretty darn slick.. I'm a kid at heart myself even at 58 and I'm gonna make one. Heck, I might make several for the grandkids too..
Don't worry about the negative comments. That fact that you created it and it does work... is impressive. I wasn't sure where you were going with the build, but it the end, it was quite fun to watch. Great job.
Pretty cool Man! I'm gonna make one for my daughter
Now that I have a CNC I was thinking of making a gear-driven hopper for it.
thumbs up for adapting to your quarter height oversight.
Very clever, my grandsons will like this!
Thank you!
Awesome! Have fun buliding and thanks for watching, William!
the end was priceless
haha, thanks Tanner!
Holy wow, clever! Thanks for the rundown.
You're welcome! Glad you liked it
Friend Fisher, Sir, I very liked your video. It was great fun. Also, I admire that you made mistakes whilst creating your coin sorter, and showed us, leaving the one in place. Blessings to you, pierre from New Mexico
Hey thanks, Pierre! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Amazing how simple and effective at the same time. Thanks for showing it to us and the time you took!!
Glad you liked it!
Very clever. I like.
Nice use of the thin strip jig Drew. Cherry likes to split without a sharp blade. And the pencil eraser on the band saw for the close cut makes for a precise cut. Well done.
Thanks, Ryan! :)
what a great little project :-) so cool.
Thank you! 😊
Loved this idea..... especially the demo for the last two coins. Hilarious!
Thanks Alex! Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.
Great project.
Simple, functional, perfect.
very very cool toys :) , have fun with your hobby
Thanks Pietro! I sure am!
Nice job! My grandson would like this. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure, Don. Thanks for watching.
It's funny how small things like these sometimes can grow into something more complex and challenging .Good luck and have fun with your new project .
Excellent, can be used in wooden pinball machines too. Will try it. Thanks
Sure could! Have fun trying it out! Thanks for watching!
That's pretty cool. What a neat gift. Thanks.
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting!
How fun!
that's fun! like the jar ringing sounds too.
Thanks Mark!
Loved the concept, looking forward to dump a handful of coins and the jig makes its sorting magic. Well done mate. Cheers.
Pretty slick....
That’s awesome! Good job
Watching the video twice now
this is really neat....I look forward to trying to make one for my son
Very cool Drew. Very impressed with the plans.
A darn fine idea. Great job.
Now add a circuit board with a timer and separate inputs, the larger the coin the longer the time and attach to your stove. Now you have my grandpas method of saving money and making sure grandma didn't burn the kitchen down by leaving it on and taking a nap.
That's a pretty genius design! Great work.
Thank you, Sharp Works!
This is brilliant!
Very cool idea for a gift to a kid.
Yup! I made it for my son and he loves it! Thanks for watching!
Nicely done.
really cool idea .I like it ..
Thanks Abdullah! Glad you liked it!
really nice project. I think i'll make one some day. Thanks for sharing
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the vid.
I think hand sorting and dropping the coins into the jars would be quicker but then you'd miss out on the fun of them rolling. pretty neat, and simple, now all you need to build is a funnel with a rotor to rotate the coins into the slot.
I really like that, going to have to make one myself...👍👍
It was really fun watching it, cheers...
Glad you liked it, thanks!
Very cool and simple design. That would provide hours of entertainment for my kids! And for me... :)
Thanks!
That was awesome.
Thanks, Juan!
it's not even funny how much I love this thanks for sharing buddy! 😊
My pleasure. Glad you liked it, Nathan! :)
It's like magic, nice video, fun project
Thanks, it was fun!
Hola! 🖐 This is really neat, great job! 👏 This could work for a lazy game of quarters 🥃🍺🍻 Take care and have a good one, Adios! 👊
Thanks! You too!
thanks for the entertainment and inspiration
You're very welcome, thanks for watching!
Outstanding also your description of what and how you proceeded was great. A lot of other's could take some lessons from your presentation.
Thanks Dennis! Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Fun project!
Extremely clever, your videos are are enjoyable for me because they are not like a commercial for some tool vendor
Thanks, Robert! (This reply is brought to you by Festool! Contact your local Festool reseller for more replies like this!!)
Very clever!
Awesome..this looks like too much fun.
Glad you liked it, Salman! Thanks for watching!
Nice one Drew, thanks
Thank you, sir
If you find yourself fighting a piece that wants to slip and slide around while clamping a glue-up, try adding a tiny sprinkle of table salt to the glue. Not a lot, just a dozen or so grains. You'll be amazed at how much of an improvement it can make! Another option is to apply two clamps below the spot you're working to use as a "rest" for the main piece.
dude I thought was an awesome project! I liked learning about all the little tricks and jigs you used. cool vid home skillet.
Thanks, James! Glad you liked it!
nice job. it would keep my grandkids busy for hours, lol
Pretty cool!
Thanks, Bill!
New to your channel love the way you work and love this idea for a coin bank
Nice project!
Thanks
Shop Buddy!!!!
nicely done. now build me one!
Love this video,going to try and make it for my grandkids
Nice little build video, I like the ramp idea! If you haven't tried it already, get some 2p10 with activator and it will save you hours on a build like this. super cool stuff and they have a starter set for around 30 bucks on amazon.
Gonna add it to my wish list right now. Thanks!
Amazing!!!
Thanks Luca!
I LOVE that you kept the the goodbye where the coins missed :) good work, looks fun!
Now you need a chute at the top, so you can feed in dozens of coins in one go, and have them all sorted by the device.
nice job! well done! really enjoyed the video. I know this was probably mostly freehand stuff, but I'm a beginner when it comes to wood and including some measurements would have been nice.
I'm a beginner as well. I just figured it out as I went, hence my mistake that I talked about in the video. Just go for it without any measurements. Most likely you'll do just fine.
LOL at the ending!!
I just wish that I had enough change to warrant me to actually make one of these....
you could add to this and make a sorter at the top that operates with a hand crank so you don't have to drop one coin at a time in your project you can dump a entire sack of coins in.
I enjoy your videos, some are very informative some are pure entertainment. how boring life would be if everything we do has to be practical and 100% what everyone would need. keep doing what you are doing I will stay subscribed to your channel.
Thanks, Jim!
SMART IDEA
Awesome, thanx👌
Glad you liked it, maritimer Man! Thanks for watching
Nicely done. Now you need to fashion a large hopper above so you can dump in a handful of coins. ;)
Funny you should say that... I was actually thinking of exactly that for another video.
You'll find that that aspect is hundreds of times more complicated than you might imagine. It is a completely different issue to be able to dump a big (or even medium sized) jar of coins into a hopper and have them come out one at a time versus feeding into a slot one at a time. Coins have several ways in which they can jam up and work with each other rather than cooperating with your wishes. The topic of and the physics of coin counters are....kind of interesting. Of course what you have is a sorter, not a counter.
I know how I'd do it. The key to feed them one at a time is doable since 2 of the thinnest coins (dimes) still are thicker than 1 of the thickest coins (a nickel). A hopper with a star wheel at the bottom that pushes coins through a slot just thick enough for 1 nickel. I just may get around to making it but honestly it's pretty far down on the list.
Gravity can assist as well if the star wheel is inclined and might help a potential jam situation - e.g. if the back edge of a nickle is resting a little on top of the wheel rather than fully in the slot the front edge may be able to get a bit into the slot. Totally overthinking this for the purpose, though, I know!
If you go and look at actual commerically made coin counters, no, you are not overthinking it, at least in terms of creating a real world functioning machine. There are a fairly serious lot of irritating problems dumping a big jar of coins into a hopper, having the coins come out one at a time, then sorting them. (Never mind counting them) It all seems so simple when you see a typical commercial machine working, even an older handcranked Klopp (which are great machines) apparently handling wads of coins with no big issues. But I can tell you, large numbers of coins piled on top of each other randomly can be phenomenally uncooperative. There are many many ways they can jam, they can have nicked edges or bits of sticky goop on them, or be bent. Or all of those.
I happen to have a Cummins jetsort desktop machine that I got at an auction super cheap, not because I needed it, just because it was so cheap. And it is a completely fearsome machine. You can put 30 pound of coins through it, it will count & sort them in maybe a minute and change, and it will come up with the same count as many times as you put the coins through it.
cool
Satisfying
Now for a screw, nut and bolt sorter.
Pretty cool :-)
Clever
I would recommend carving out an indentation so the main jars would fit more snug on the base
Cool! :)
This gives me the idea of making one of similar design, but instead of pushing coins into the jars, having holes so they drop
Nice work. Great idea. Wonder if you could make a hopper attachment for it?
Enjoyable video
Genius
cool video💪💪💪
Thanks, Jenni!
wow what a cool little project my 10 yo and I will definitely be giving this a go !! :) thank you for sharing and I'm subbing I can't wait to see what else you have in store!! :)
Thanks Lukes! Glad you liked it. My son has enjoyed this one. I hope your youngster will like it too. Happy building!
Nice :)
nice design requires a lot of handy work tho
Very good " and an imagination ....
Tip. To keep glue joints from sliding around sprinkle a bit of table salt in the glue.
I'd heard of this tip before but I'm still yet to try it out. What I probably should have done is just used dowels for that joint. Live and learn, right?
I have tried that salt trick. Used a bit of coarser grained Kosher Salt, on angled surfaces similar to your situation in this video, and as suggested in the CZcams video where I found it. Works well.
You can do the trick by rubbing some cheap, coarse sandpaper together too, since most of us don't usually have salt in our shops. lol I think it was Pocket83 where I saw that.
I often use salt for this. A few grains of ordinary table salt is enough. Don’t use too much because it dries the glue out. It’s well worth trying and having an old pill bottle (yes label removed) of salt in the workshop.
Thanks, man will try that on the next project.
caramba! qui inteligencia, perfeito
Haha, obrigado!
You need to make a feeder funnel so you can dump all coins in,, with our pre sorting to then sort them
Love it!
Thanks, Rick!
fajné jak cyp. 😃
cool dude. I think it would be pretty sweet if you added funnels to it too. one leading into each jar so the coins can't fall out like they did at the end and one big one lining the coins into the slot to roll down so you could just poor a bunch in at once and have it take less time/labor. Over all though fantastic job. I do think a smooth clear coat wouldn't hurt though😜
not trying to be a critic just wanted to say nice job. I like feedback or whatever you wanna call it so I give it to people I think deserve it.
lol reading comments and such realizing that what I had to say was generic but still
looks great. and as far as inefficiency goes... well sure... but I bet you could put some kinda hopper on it that carries a lot of coins and let them fall through one by one. I am actually pretty sure some of the 'inefficient' critics are building it right now and are producing a video of it.(NOT)
Oops... I only now see you already mentioned a hopper in one of yr replies
Yeah it's just a toy for my son. I could (and probably will at some point in the near future) add a hopper system and a gear-driven feeder, but since it was supposed to just be a toy I thought that I should keep it simple to start with. I didn't anticipate the amount of comments I'd get from people criticizing at just how inefficient it is. lol! Oh well. Thanks for watching, commenting, and being capable of rational thought. :)
Cool Dad, can I get my allowance in change.
I like it, that a nice project. I subscribe to your channel. Good luck with it.
Built by Bill thanks!
3 words for u: That's Bad Ass!
3 words for u: Thanks for watching!
I relize there are a bunch of haters in these comments but i have been stuck on a slightly more technologically improved version of an idea like this for weeks. All of my designs have some sort of flaw and then i came across your video. It is simply brilliant, but i have a couple of technical questions for you, i understand the main ramp is the thickness of a dime, how much taller or thicker are the triangles than the main ramp in order to get them to push the coins off? and can you take that angle gauge from your table saw and post the angle you made for both the main ramp and the board that the coins lean against? i think that hose two things would be tremendously helpful.
Thanks gillespie! The ramp thickness has to be the thickness of a nickel since that's the thickest coin. The little triangles don't have to be so big because once the coin is moving, it doesn't take much to bump it off the ramp. In fact, the steeper the ramp is, the smaller the triangles have to be. As for the angle, I just played around with it until I found one where the coins would barely roll on their own (not sure exactly what that angle is). Thanks for posting and commenting!
I am curious about one part of your design: what made you decide to bump the dimes off rather than let them run off the end? I do get that the style is probably better this way with all of the jars lined up. The reason I thought of this was a machine from when I was a kid - dairy farm kid but we also had chickens and sold eggs. The egg grader system we had thee scale stations on the track and dumped the eggs off at a right angle but ones lighter than the lightest scale were pushed off the end of the track to a separate bit of the table.
Good job on your sorter. You are making and building projects while others are being critical, questioning, and opining. At least you are getting some sawdust on the floor! Get'er done buddy!
Thanks Mike!! I appreciate that!