Paper discs for coin separation?

[TheGoldSovereign]

I know this is almost a very silly thread, but just wondering if anyone else has thought of this and had a solution in the past.

For tubes of sovereigns, pre-capsule stage of sorting, I want to separate the coins from scratching against each other, and although this will be very minimal I just thought I could buy some 22mm paper discs from somewhere.

Any ideas? obviously i don't want to cut them myself!

 

Something like this, but unfortunately they are actually 35mm if you read the small print. https://www.ebadges.co.uk/product/paper-discs/?attribute_pa_size-mm=25mm

[ady]

Hi, 

Tiddly wink !

[Goldhooked]

There are these 25mm confetti discs.  Not sure if they would clog up the tube with the extra width?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F123183712141

[kimchi]

Why not just buy some (dirt cheap) acid-free tissue paper and cut it yourself? It's super thin but I think a treble folded piece would do. That's what I use to pad out the space at the top of tubes of silver bullion with.

[999magnum]

But why paper? Do you know something we don't? Spill the beans man!

[Thelonerangershorse]

I have some acid free paper used for picture mounting, If I can get a spare 10 minutes I'll see if I can get it in the laser cutter at work.

[TheGoldSovereign]

On 23/09/2018 at 14:13, kimchi said:

Why not just buy some (dirt cheap) acid-free tissue paper and cut it yourself? It's super thin but I think a treble folded piece would do. That's what I use to pad out the space at the top of tubes of silver bullion with.

Cutting myself 1000s of paper circles, hmm

 

On 23/09/2018 at 13:49, Goldhooked said:

There are these 25mm confetti discs.  Not sure if they would clog up the tube with the extra width?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F123183712141

Went with these, hopefully they will fit in the tubes otherwise will need to get some 20mm ones

 

[kimchi]

7 minutes ago, sg86 said:

Cutting myself 1000s of paper circles, hmm

They don't need to be circles,  just a rough square that stops the coins rubbing together. Cut a sheet of paper into strips and then squares slightly smaller than the coin. Fold a few times for thickness (it's super thin stuff). I reckon you can do prepare it that way yourself for 50 Sovs in around ten minutes, cost of materials less than 50p. If you have 1000 Sovs just spread that huge workload over ten days, 20 minutes a day

[terakris]

3 minutes ago, kimchi said:

They don't need to be circles,  just a rough square that stops the coins rubbing together. Cut a sheet of paper into strips and then squares slightly smaller than the coin. Fold a few times for thickness (it's super thin stuff). I reckon you can do prepare it that way yourself for 50 Sovs in around ten minutes, cost of materials less than 50p. If you have 1000 Sovs just spread that huge workload over ten days, 20 minutes a day

Or... turn it into a "craft" exercise for the kids. Mine love cutting paper up... only problem is it might end up stuck to the table covered in PVA glue... but no ones perfect.

[TheGoldSovereign]

15 minutes ago, terakris said:

Or... turn it into a "craft" exercise for the kids. Mine love cutting paper up... only problem is it might end up stuck to the table covered in PVA glue... but no ones perfect.

Gave my daughter her first pair of scissors a few weeks ago and she gave my wife a lock of her hair for a present

 

[kimchi]

1 hour ago, terakris said:

Or... turn it into a "craft" exercise for the kids. Mine love cutting paper up... only problem is it might end up stuck to the table covered in PVA glue... but no ones perfect.

'Daddy, look, I made this golden dinosaur for you!'

 

[TheGoldSovereign]

For anyone who needs to do something similar in the future I ended up using a 20mm was punch and A4 paper, worked a treat!

Now I can stop rubbing in tubes for high grade sovs

[sovereignsteve]

7 hours ago, sg86 said:

Now I can stop rubbing in tubes for high grade sovs

Oh good!