Arcade Token Sorter?

jjoravec

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I recently picked up a bulk lot of arcade tokens of various sizes. Does anyone know of a machine to sort them, by size like a coin sorter?

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haha hilarious.. i hired my wife to help. we sorted through couple thousand tokens ourselves!

took us many hours over many days!

we sorted the common ones out from the many lesser known tokens.

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...but i think the OP is asking for a sorter to sort tokens by size?
 
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I looked into this, as I had a large bucket of assorted size tokens I wanted to sort.

Pick up a cheap digital micrometer. I grabbed one off of ebay for about 20 bucks, and absolutely love it. Lots of uses.

Once you measure the sizes manually, and get familiar, you can pretty easily sort the sizes quickly by picking up a bunch on your hand, and stacking them in a roll (like a roll of coins, without the wrapper). You can pretty easily see the relative difference in sizes when they're side by side, in ways that you can't when they're lying flat on the table.
 
Also, if you want to clean those bad boys, get yourself a rock tumbler.

I picked up a used Lortone 3A tumbler for about 80 bucks on ebay. I like the rotary tumbler as opposed to the vibratory ones, as I have a small apartment, and the Lortone ones are the best and quietest, IMO. Plus you can wet tumble with the rock tumblers, which I find works much better for most arcade parts.

I tumbled about 100 lbs of assorted tokens, a few pounds at a time. I tumbled them wet, with some dish detergent, and a handful of crushed walnut as an abrasive, overnight, and they come out AMAZING.

You don't even need to dry polish tumble them after, as you just dry them off, and they're fine. (I did try dry polishing them after, with some Flitz polish and crushed walnut, and found it actually didn't add anything over just the wet cleaning.)
 
Didn't Noice have some kind of token sorter setup?

I'll see if I can find some pic somewhere. At one point I had 7 counters costing over 800 each linked together. I use to buy 1,000 to 2,000 pounds at a time. I don't buy much any more and when I do I just use one counter. I sold one at auction, traded one, and one is broke. So I should have 4 somewhere but I hardly use them.
 
Man, I thought of you right off the bat. You had a stack of them that worked like a charm. That was so cool
 
About a year ago I bought a bag of tokens off of eBay. They're worried about 3,300 tokens altogether they were mostly from the same place but I did sort of all out by hand. I didn't have a rock tumbler so actually clean them all by hand and it was quite therapeutic. It took ridiculous amount of time but I do enjoy having the tokens around. you get the effect of dropping a coin into a game to play and this way nobody steals my quarters.
 
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