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Default Air Force Quarter?

On Aug 10, 11:55*am, spaco wrote:
I seem to remember that, during wwII, the guys at some eastern US air
force base found that they could solder a penny or a nickel into the
center of a spark plug compression washer and then use it in a vending
machine. *The idea worked so well that it created a major problem for
vending machine makers and operators of the day.

* Does anyone remember more details?

Pete Stanaitis


Not that tidbit, but interesting:
http://books.google.com/books?id=OyE...page&q&f=false

It could be the non-steel insert was required to get past the
electrical resistance testing magnets.


Dave