How to dry coins

[seattleguy]

When the quarters and tokens are removed from the bays and vacuums they are often very wet. What do you guys do to dry them. Is there any device?

 

[Rudy]

Beach towels.

 

[I.B. Washincars]

Beach towels.

That's what I do as well. Throw them on the towel, push them around with another towel a little bit, turn the fan on them, come back in a few minutes and sort them.

 

[4csuns]

We use the same towel method then a hair dryer to finish with.

 

[mjwalsh]

We use the same towel method then a hair dryer to finish with.

Same here ... Ditto

 

[MEP001]

I made a box out of 2x4 lumber with hardware cloth for the bottom. If the coins are wet I dump them in the box and use a small terry towel to rub around in them for a minute. They're not completely dry, but they're clean and dry enough to count.

I used to run a small, older wash, and I'd pour the quarters on a towel on top of the hot water tank and wipe them down a bit with the edges of the towel. After sitting there for about 10 minutes they'd be completely dry. That wasn't a lot of quarters, at most about 15 pounds at a time.

 

[mjwalsh]

It would help to dry fewer coins without an income hit!

When the quarters and tokens are removed from the bays and vacuums they are often very wet. What do you guys do to dry them. Is there any device?

Seattleguy & others,

It would help to dry fewer coins without an income hit! The labor required is just another subtle cost.

I think most of us agree that 1/4 or 1/8 as many coins to dry with more net income from coins makes sense & is helpful. Like Big Leo said in the following very recent post ... coins are preferred by the public over tokens. A coin adjusted for inflation that is given a reasonable chance to be used more most certainly would be plus for most of us USA self service car wash operators ... even if we have 10 still under warranty bill acceptors... like myself.

http://forum.autocareforum.com/showthread.php?p=66811

mike walsh king koin of bismarck

 

[Earl Weiss]

FWIW maybe there is a way to avoid it all together. I do not know what type of vaults you have. I have the round type in the bays. I have a plastic sleeve which you can buy and it has drain holes in the bottom. Even if you had dump vaults you could put some sort of raised bottom in them or drain holes.

Water does not stay on coins except for occasional freezing.

I just dump the coins in the changer hoppers. No drying.

 

[JMMUSTANG]

I tried a salad spinner once.
It worked pretty well but I could only spin less the $50 at a time because the weight was to heavy. It just took to long.
Went back to the towel and electric dryer.

 

[JustClean]

I always thought of getting me a clothes dryer and putting the coins in a "beachtowel-bag" with a zipper...but that might be an overkill???

 

[MEP001]

I always thought of getting me a clothes dryer and putting the coins in a "beachtowel-bag" with a zipper...but that might be an overkill???

I'm sure it would destroy the dryer. I doubt it would do much to dry the coins well. Putting them in there loose would probably dry them faster, but can you imagine the noise?

 

[seattleguy]

I need to dry them because a ScanCoin 303 won't work wet and keeps getting jammed. Basically I need to dry the coins to separate the quarters from the tokens. I think the washer idea might work. Cheap enough to try. Thanks for the tips.

 

[MEP001]

I use a ScanCoin 303. The method I described above gets them dry enough with a couple minutes of work that they count through with no problem.

 

[Kevin Reilly]

If one of the bags are wet we use a hair dryer. We stick the nozzle in the bag, and roll the bag around. have been doing this for a long time and it works fine. It heats the coin up and evaporates rather quickly. Although we use a Brandt sorter to run our coin through and it separate quarters, tokens, dollars and anything else that may have made it into the coin boxes.

 

[Ghetto Wash]

I had a ScanCoin and got tired of holding a hair dryer everytime I collected quarters. I have nothing but Klopp now and have not dried a coin since.

 

[seattleguy]

@Ghetto Which model Klopp? From the website it says not to use the electric one just the manual sorter. Do you use it to sort tokens from quarters or just to count?

 

[Ghetto Wash]

@Ghetto Which model Klopp? From the website it says not to use the electric one just the manual sorter. Do you use it to sort tokens from quarters or just to count?

I just count, no sorting. I have the "CE" models. I have used the manual models and they are not that bad. I just watched their video on sorting wet coins with the manual sorter.

If I were forced to sort wet coins I would choose the manual Klopp over drying coins.

 

[seattleguy]

Thanks I just ordered the manual one set up for my size tokens.