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Favorite Comment: Fixer Eric says, “This is actually a penny den, pennies are always on the move and usually cluster in dark and/or confined areas, including wallets, piggy banks, and behind furniture, this here is a rare and classic example of symbiosis, the pennies have a nice home, and the radio cassette recorder isn’t thrown out for not working.”
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But they’re fine as currentcy. Get it, current? Oh I crack myself up.
Forget the pennies; I am trying to figure out what this is. Remote control, why the antenna? Rear view mirror…same thing. Has to have a radio in it, maybe TV? I know they did away with antennas on personal multi dimensional transporters years ago. Maybe a mini frig with built in radio?
I believe the sticker on the back reads “Radio cassette recorder.” But that could just be a diversion.
If you can read a bit… it’s a Radio Cassette Recorder… a Cheap thing from 2000/2001
No, no, those are 5 Eurocent and 20 Eurocent coins. The yellow batteries are from a german discount market. The CE sign also implies EU.
It says “radio cassette recorder” right on the label
thems not be pennies thems be euro 5 cents if i aint mistaken
looks like theres also a couple of 20/10 cents stuck in there
Clicky for Euro coin images. That’s at least €0.50 in there – wouldn’t have been cheaper to buy a battery?
I think those are actually Real 5 cents coins (the currency in Brazil)
“And it runs on pennies a day…”
Looks like a college kludge. As long as they don’t need to use all 6 volts for running the cassette motor or playing very loudly, this – 4.5 volts? – will work to pull a radio signal at a lower volume or in headphones for a short time – looks like C batteries where D batteries are meant to go.
Wait! Are those watch batteries or an extra-long cylindrical spring? Most battery springs are conical. This gets worse the longer I look at it.
Not an extra-long spring but a handful of 220mg sodium tablets, thereby resulting in a terrible case of a salt and battery.
ooooh, THAT one hurt!
I’d buy that for a dollar. And give you 12 cents change.
They improvised a solution with materials on hand, and the coins will be spendable later when they go shopping for proper sized batteries.
I’d say it’s a win.
This is actually a penny den, pennies are always on the move and usually cluster in dark and/or confined areas, including wallets, piggy banks, and behind furniture, this here is a rare and classic example of symbiosis, the pennies have a nice home, and the radio cassette recorder isn’t thrown out for not working.
Money!
I ran my CD ‘boombox’ on a single 9 volt battery instead of 6, 1.5volt ‘C’ cells. The 9 volt got real hot, but it lasted about 4 or 5 hours at full blast running a CD!
Looks like a waste of tape. And the time wasted concocting that mess could have been better spent at a garage sale somewhere, finding a working cassette player for cost of the coins that are stuffed into the back of this one.
Maggie, you sound bitter. Perhaps you’re one of those anti-tape types I see at rallies, holding up CD cases and shouting “down with cassettes”! Tapes are still a protected class in this country and people like you should be ashamed of yourselves.
What makes you think it doesn’t work? I’m guessing it just needs batteries
I’ve done this before to fit C batteries into a stereo that wanted Ds. Worked just fine, but only took a few. This almost looks like trying to fit 3 batteries in a slot meant for 4, except the gap’s not quite big enough… maybe using 3 Ds in place of 4 Cs?
Apparently you CAN top the copper top, but only with pennies. Copper tops, plural. And bottoms.
“Change batteries” takes on a whole new meaning.
Looks like the portable radios that were sold here in Brazil some time ago, “imported” from Paraguay. Probably the last line says “MADE IN CHINA”
This picture made me remember the ads paid by govt. central bank to stimulate population “rescuing their forgotten pennies and put them in circulation”.
Is change-ing the batteries really worth it?
Hey! Cheaper than a battery and probably longer lived! I wonder what would happen if ONLY pennies were used……..you could light up WHOLE CITIES on a fraction of the cost!!
I wonder why this guy didn’t design a whole galvanic battery using those pennies
This is the new piggy bank for parking money
I have one of two items with a weak spring in the battery compartment. Even with the right batteries they need a few pennies.
That’s actually CHEAPER than buying a battery! Says something about inflation.
I think i saw that radio on Gilligan’s Island once. They went through all the conniptions of having The Professor rig up a radio, only to find out that a hurricane was coming.
A penny for your Watts?
bunch of stupid americans
Wow, I guess what they say is true, having money gives you power.
is it just me that thinks this is a genius idea?
this actually works with aluminium foil too. I tried it with an old cassette recorder too and it required 4 batteries but only had 3 new ones. I made one out of aluminium and it worked! much less likely to collapse than coins.
the economy crumbles like a cookie in milk.
and what will you do with you life when there is nothing left?
Ah yes, the lost days of youth spent making batteries out of quarters, pennies, toilet paper and water…