Using coins in every day life, unusually. And how to properly adjust car mirrors. Coin Lyfe!!!

Aspie_Rocco

So here begins a thread that will teeter on the borders, not to press my luck, but for a good laugh.

How to PROPERLY adjust vehicle mirrors with no blind spots:

Step one- enter drivers side, sit down in drivers seat. Do not fart, yet, as the window need to be up.

Step two- lean your head to the left until it gently bumps the drivers window.

Step three- Tape a US COIN to the window where your head hit. Then put your head against the coin while looking through the driver side mirror

Step four-adjust mirror until you just see the side of your tail light, or rearmost side corner, with head against US coin.

Step five- egress driver side (fart now) and enter passenger front seat repeat coin taping, head bump and tail light just visible

Now your mirrors are PROPERLY adjusted. When you look at the rear view objects on edges will also be in side mirrors. This entirely eliminates blind spots.

Step six- leave coin taped to window, optional, like a bumper sticker, to look cool to fellow coin nuts.

Disclaimer: if your vehicle is right hand drive, you have to use a Euro. I dont make the rules.

This concludes the first Coin Lyfe,
Aspie Roccout

ricko

I just add the small convex mirrors to the external rear view mirrors.. Voila'.....everything can be seen...Cheers, RickO

Aspie_Rocco

Oops I accidentally gave a disagree while scrolling. Sorry @ricko I fixed it. The convex mirrors do help, but I spent that money on a nickel, lol.

jwitten

I'm not following. How can you see your own taillight from inside the car?

Aspie_Rocco

@jwitten said:
I'm not following. How can you see your own taillight from inside the car?

LOL! Great point I will edit to specify seeing the side of your tail light. Not the back

AUandAG

I usually just look into the rear view mirror to see if I can see what I want....if so, I'm good. Just don't get in any of my blind spots!

bob

1630Boston

You are one crazy dude @Aspie_Rocco

Aspie_Rocco

Customizable sprinklers using a large coin:
If your sprinklers need adjustment from hard water deposits you can customize the spray patters using a good sized coin! Instead of paying the sprinkler guy!! Make rainbows too!

Azurescens

@AUandAG said:
I usually just look into the rear view mirror to see if I can see what I want....if so, I'm good. Just don't get in any of my blind spots!

bob

Anyone who's in my blind spots while I'm driving 80mph down the wrong side of the freeway should consider themselves safe.

Batman23

Well, the last fix on my truck to keep the clutch peddle from popping off the cylinder connecting rod required the use of a 1980 Lincoln cent. Drilled the center out to exact tolerance and held in place with an e-clip. Works perfect!

Have you priced standard washers recently Why pay a nickel plus tax for a sloppy fitting washer when you can have a nice tight copper one for a cent...

bigjpst

@Batman23 said:
Well, the last fix on my truck to keep the clutch peddle from popping off the cylinder connecting rod required the use of a 1980 Lincoln cent. Drilled the center out to exact tolerance and held in place with an e-clip. Works perfect!

Have you priced standard washers recently Why pay a nickel plus tax for a sloppy fitting washer when you can have a nice tight copper one for a cent...

I'm guessing you aren't a flat rate mechanic.

mustangmanbob

After living in Los Angeles, and doing body work, before Uncle Sam so graciously noticed my low draft number, it was very common to find Mexican coins welding or brazed, used as webbing to repair rust damage

Aspie_Rocco

@Batman23
@mustangmanbob

That's the spirit! I have a target practice toss in the air shot through clad quarter laying around somewhere.

Where's all the silver quarters turned rings and stuff?

bigjpst

Coins make great golf ball markers. But I suppose that isn't all that unusual.

Aspie_Rocco

How to find your Boss wth coins when he or she is missing:

Ever notice that whenever you are doing something "wrong" your boss happens to catch you or find you. Late with those TPS reports? An extra 5 minutes at coffe? Or smoking? Standing on the top rung of a ladder to reach something? Get an unusual phone call or text right when/before they walk in. It's like radar.
But when YOU need them, where are they? MIA, Thats where.

Next time you NEED your boss or a superior, if you answer to someone, simply pull out your favorite US COIN and start admiring it. Or log onto this great COIN forum and read/talk coins. Or search eBay for that too good coin deal you've been waiting for.

Like a ninja your boss will drop down from a crevice in the ceiling, pounce from behind a plant, squeeze out of an air duct and say
"hey! What are you doing?"
Calmly smile and say "Looking for you"
it's like a having a Genie/djinn/jinn in a bottle!

Also
Using coins and rice to fix your wet phone:
Take wet phone and towel dry, then add to large ziplock bag of dry uncooked rice with 1 US COIN and leave it overnight. The rice with dry out the phone hopefully ina day or two and you can use phone again.
Conversely, if you are cooking rice and add too much water, simply throw in a US COIN and your cell phone. It will absorb water

Coin Lyfe!!!

ricko

Coins are good for scratch off lottery tickets.... used to be good for fuse boxes.... and the top of car batteries to limit terminal corrosion...penny loafers..... quarters for the rich kids... Opening battery compartments on Laser sights...and of course, deciding kickoffs in football games...Cheers, RickO

Batman23

@bigjpst said:

I'm guessing you aren't a flat rate mechanic.

I would say that I'm pretty much flat rate as I can't afford for pay myself by the hour!

hchcoin

Great thread.

stealer

Best thread of 2017.

SONOMOSCA

@Azurescens said:
Anyone who's in my blind spots while I'm driving 80mph down the wrong side of the freeway should consider themselves safe.

Definitely agree... and has been happening far too often in recent years here in AZ.

Aspie_Rocco

Have a trashy misbehaving dog? Teach it some etiquette and grace. Careful use of US coins can help teach a puppy things like balance AND dignity. So the next time she/he drinks from toilet they will do so with poise.

How to conserve water with numismascaping. Not to be confused with man-scaping or landscaping. This is after all, the US Coin forum.
Are you in a drought? Water restrictions? Tired of cutting that lawn. Convert to a desert numismascape with numismatic accoutrements and save on water, gas, time!

Coin Lyfe!!!

Aspie_Rocco

Using Coins to teach Grammar:

Your coins are awesome!
You're an awesome coin collector!

They're awesome coin collectors!
Their collection is awesome!
There is an awesome collection here https://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/nickels/jefferson-nickels-specialty-sets/jefferson-nickels-fs-complete-variety-set-circulation-strikes-proof-1938-present/publishedset/142753

Coin Lyfe!!!

asheland

Fun thread I missed the first time around!

OldEastside

@Aspie_Rocco said:
Customizable sprinklers using a large coin:
If your sprinklers need adjustment from hard water deposits you can customize the spray patters using a good sized coin! Instead of paying the sprinkler guy!! Make rainbows too!

Can You make rainbow toned coins using this method ?

Steve

Aspie_Rocco

Just a quick update on financial affairs, $0.50 is not what it used to be. I began to, or rather attempted, filling in this half dollar folder when I realized Ben has lost some weight and Thomas seems to have found it.

Coin Lyfe!!!
Roccout

mustangmanbob

On Friday, our dishwasher decided that it was a good day to die.

When I pulled it out, I found 9 Guatemala 10 Centavos coins that had been used to level the feet of the dishwasher on the concrete slab.

Aspie_Rocco

IS THIS A DDR? Die hard Doubled die reverse?

Coinlyfe!!!
Roccout

1630Boston

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Aspie_Rocco

Fix your mirrors!

1630Boston

Thanks for resurrecting this @Aspie_Rocco
Roccon

1630Boston

Not sure why I thought of @Aspie_Rocco 's mirror adjustment thread this morning, but I did.

yspsales

Can he teach me how to use the dimmer on the rear view mirror?

Hydrant

@yspsales said:
Can he teach me how to use the dimmer on the rear view mirror?

.......and teach me how to turn off that damn windshield wiper on the rear window of my Tahoe?

BillyKingsley

@Aspie_Rocco said:
Customizable sprinklers using a large coin:
If your sprinklers need adjustment from hard water deposits you can customize the spray patters using a good sized coin! Instead of paying the sprinkler guy!! Make rainbows too!

It's been cleaned.

Aspie_Rocco

Haha! Hello folks!

1630Boston

I've missed your posts here @Aspie_Rocco
roccon

Aspie_Rocco

Coinlyfe bump for April Foose day