Can you even make bullets/wire with copper pennies? Are they useful for anything?
Are copper pennies worth hoarding?
Ian Allen
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Austin Sullivan
Is it true that they cost more than a penny to produce?
Cameron Lewis
For the past 40 years roughly, pennies are 90% zinc. If you scratch one deep enough, you'll see what I mean.
Gotta get the older ones for high copper content
Anthony Clark
No
Yes but that includes the energy used to form the copper
Ryder Moore
They're more /diy/ than Jow Forums. I guess you could put them in a shotshell.
Jeremiah Williams
You can use copper to make bullets but it's a huge pain; you're better off stockpiling lead for that purpose.
And if you do want to stockpile copper for whatever reason there are far better sources than pennies.
Blake Perry
Like what?
Samuel Wilson
Zin+copper=brass. You can melt the pennies and make brass.
Zink is negativity charged copper is positively charged. If you sand one face of the pennies and line them up with a thin spacer in-between you can make a bimetal battery that lasts a long time. There are totorials on YouTube.
Jaxson Rogers
Pennies from before 1982 are 95% copper with some zinc.
Pennies made in 1982 might be either 95% copper or 97.5% zinc since both kinds were minted that year.
Pennies minted 1958 and earlier are "wheat pennies" and usually more valuable to collectors than they are in melt value.
Aiden Reyes
Copper pipes, copper wire, electrical pannals, car engines, light poles. Go to a scrap yard user, bring wire cutters, have fun.