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designflaw

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I just found this in my coin vaults. I have never noticed this kind of activity before. I know with vacuums, its a long drop so this would practically not work. But for SlugBusters, can this work?
 

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It does not look that he was that good of a thief. Yes, short drops can be hacked and so can log drops just have to know what to do.
 
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That's a pretty crude set up. I found one a number of years ago that was very well made. It didn't work with any of the electronic coin acceptors, short or long drop, it would get caught on the gate/shoe in the coin acceptor.
 
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Something tells me ... the odds of a resulting jam is the bigger problem ... unless they are actually getting hoppers to trigger from a changer machine resulting in free money vs just car wash equipment activation. FWIW, on both our Standard ChangeMakers with short acceptors ... it has never happened since 1987. Someone lost his bill attempting to use the tape technique. We got him on the camera directly above the bill acceptor... no license plate or ability to recognize him as a known perp.

Someone told me that our local Walmart is using facial recognition cameras to alert for trespassed individuals? Has anybody done that with their camera setups??? It could possibly help alert us against repeat offenders who might play a "cat & mouse game" knowing we can't physically watch for them every second?
 
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I haven't seen that at my wash in over15 years. Fishing line glued to the quarter in my case. My Dad found it and had a lot of fun trying to get it to work at our wash. It never worked in the self service bays but would work in the Hamilton pay station.
 
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Dan kamsickas said:
Meh, it's really not possible with modern electronic coin mechs. The problem is nothing dies on the internet. There is a lot of info about how to trick various machines that hasn't been applicable for decades.
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Yes, time flies by. My Dad's been gone 16 years and as I try to remember the hamilton was susceptible to the dollar bill string, maybe in the 90's. Not certain a quarter attempt ever worked, period.
 
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I found some quarters, nickels, and dimes that had been 3D printed by my vacuums the other day, I'm guessing someone thought they would work.
 
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mjwalsh said:
Were they metal 3D prints? The various much more common composite plastic 3D print materials for sure would not work!
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I'm sure secret service would want to know about this counterfeiting also, lot of risk to counterfeit coins for the maker
 
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