Ultra Sorter Motorized Coin Sorter Turn pennies into dollars! This automatic coin sorter uses a new sorting technology that quickly transforms messy piles of loose change into more manageable money. The Ultra Sorter instantly sorts pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar coins right into 5 separate coin tubes with or without the preformed paper wrappers. Drop up to 20 coins into the hopper, push the button, and watch as it sorts, counts and stacks coins rapidly. A handy, easy-access overflow tray collects all coins that spill off the top of the full coin tubes. Just pull the drawer forward and lift out the filled coin tube and - presto - you have bank-ready rolls of coins! Sample coin wrappers included. Requires two “C” batteries (not included). Dimensions: 9.88″H x 7.81″W x 6.88″d.
Customer Review: Broke down after a few months
The slide tray, after several months usage (no more than twenty times total) wont slide back in. There seems to be no access to the slide mechanism to try to fix it.

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Fun with halogens
FUN with the HALOGENS - Popular Science, 1939… WHENEVER the members of the halogen family put on an act, you can be sure there will be something doing in the way of entertainment. The nimblest of the family quartet undoubtedly is chlorine. You have seen this actor in several roles before bleaching dyes, and attacking metals with accompanying pyrotechnics, for example if you have followed this series of articles. Iodine has made a personal appearance before you as a chemical detective, revealing latent fingerprints on paper. Another member of the family, fluorine, has shown you its remarkable power of etching glass when teamed with hydrogen. The remaining member of the quartet, bromine, is an irritating, rascally sort of character if encountered alone. However, when handcuffed to hydrogen, its behavior is so satisfactory that you should let it enter your home chemical laboratory and allow it to perform for you. Uniting bromine with hydrogen yields hydrogen bromide, or hydrobromic acid just as chlorine and hydrogen form hydrogen chloride, or hydrochloric acid. Hydrobromic acid reacts with substances to form bromides, as does its better-known relative, hydrochloric acid, to form chlorides. Unlike most acids or acid-forming gases, however, hydrogen bromide cannot be prepared for practical purposes by heating corresponding salts with strong sulfuric acid. It is formed in the reaction, to be sure, but it is rapidly decomposed by the oxidizing action of the sulphuric acid. This difficulty is overcome by heating a bromide with strong phosphoric acid, which does not decompose the product. To make hydrogen bromide, place a half ounce of potassium bromide or sodium bromide in an Erlenmeyer flask or a retort, with a capacity of sixty to 200 cubic centimeters (two to seven fluid ounces). Cover the chemical to a depth of an eighth of an inch or so with strong phosphoric acid, which you can buy at any drug store under the name of eighty-five-percent, or sirupy, phosphoric acid. Related: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments. For students, DIY hobbyists, and science buffs, who can no longer get real chemistry sets, this one-of-a-kind guide explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments in basic chemistry. Learn how to smelt copper, purify alcohol, synthesize rayon, test for drugs and poisons, and much more. The book includes lessons on how to equip your home chemistry lab, master laboratory skills, and work safely in your lab, along with 17 hands-on chapters that include multiple laboratory sessions @ The Maker Shed store. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Half of Universe’s Missing Matter Found
Space is full of strands of a web-like structure that forms the universe’s backbone.

Maker Faire 2008: Vehicles!
Check out all the fun and excitement at this year’s Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. People from all over the world came to experience this amazing event. Here are just some of the amazing riding machines we saw.To download Maker Faire 2008 Vehicles MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Northwest Online Classified Ads - Sell your items online
The new Northwest Classified ads are here. Coving the northwest with high traffic and affordable listings. Find Northwest Real Estate, Auto, Rentals, Boats and much more. Sell and Tell Northwest Classified covers Alaska, Washington State, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Here is the address: http://www.sellandtellnorthwest.com Alaska Classifieds: […]

Geek quote reader for Touchshield + Arduino
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Rat Mojo All in the Tail
Female rats help their mates perform by guiding and stimulating them with their tails.

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