Back in the '90s the place I worked for used concrete nails instead of PKs because PKs were too expensive. I would drive them through pennies just like that. The boss complained about the cost! I assured him that the pennies were coming out of my pocket, not his. He figured he must be paying me too much.?ÿ?ÿ
Pennies cost a little over $0.02 to mint...and a nickel costs about $0.08 to mint.?ÿ So Using a penny you get a pretty good subsidy when you use it for something else.?ÿ Just a thought.
And pennies get "shinier" the more they get run over.?ÿ We also used concrete nails, before I had ever heard of a Magnail.
Andy
I've never seen that before!!?ÿ
Thanks for posting!!
The kind of shiners I use cost about $1ea. ?????ÿ
And pennies get "shinier" the more they get run over.?ÿ
Modern pennies are mostly zinc with only a thin veneer of copper that will wear away quickly. Older pennies of mostly copper are getting rare in the wild because they have about $0.03 worth of copper in them, melt value.?ÿ
Yeah, but 50 years ago I don't believe we were too worried about the melt value.
Andy
Way back, we used to use the caps from be...soda.?ÿ Probably much more expensive than just using a penny, but they were a lot more fun to get!?ÿ For some reason, that was one stock item that never seemed to run low.
I came here looking for an inexpensive way to avoid a black eye.
I am disappointed...
Copenhagen lids and beer coke soda bottle lids is what we use to use. ?ÿI had a cousin way older than I he was electrician so he use to bring me the circle punch outs in a old paint bucket. I would use a press drill and punch a small hole in center and stored them in the truck. But that was in 90??s.?ÿ
"Nail w/Bottle Cap" are quite common reference points for ties around here. I always use Shiner caps...pun intended, and Shiner Bock is my favorite brew.
https://shiner.com/brewery/spoetzl-brewery
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One now-deceased, local surveyor used bottle caps regularly with his reference nails.?ÿ The nails were cheap as they were so small
Way back, we used to use the caps from be...soda.?ÿ Probably much more expensive than just using a penny, but they were a lot more fun to get!?ÿ For some reason, that was one stock item that never seemed to run low.
This was also quite common when retracing old Trans Canada Pipeline surveys.?ÿ You would find the traverse control points called out:
#1 "BLUE"
#2 "OV"
#3 "L50"
#4 "BUD"
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It also seems like 1/5 of the vertical benchmarks set in the 60's in Toronto were, rather conveniently, always set into the foundation of a Beer Store.
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