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Review: Motorized Roto Sorter
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Mixed Results from Coin Sorting Gadget
The Motorized Roto Sorter is a battery-powered coin sorting gadget. You drop coins into a rotating top part of the machine, and coins are sorted into coin wrappers - pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
The box promises "hours of motorized fun." And we'll admit, it was more fun that we thought to drop coins into this contraption and watch them slide down and into the proper wrappers.
But the key questions are whether the Motorized Roto Sorter does a good job at sorting, and whether it makes the job of sorting coins into wrappers easier than doing so by hand.
For a while, it appeared that the answer was an emphatic yes, to both questions. But then something the packaging warned about started happening. After about 20 minutes of use (the instructions said it would happen after about an hour of use), the plastic slide down which the coins fall (and which directs the coins into the proper wrappers) started getting a little sticky.
This happens due to the dirt and grime and oils from many fingertips that build up on coins over time. Once that started happening, the coins might get stuck near the top, or might jam up the motorized tray at the top of the contraption. Not a big deal, just not working as smoothly as one would hope (the device can easily be taken apart for washing).
Still, the Motorized Roto Sorter did seem to make the job of sorting and wrapping coins much easier than doing so by hand.
With one caveat: If you rely on exact counts - each wrapper being filled to its exact capacity - then the Motorized Roto Sorter might not be the best bet.
Here's why: We filled up dozens of wrappers of all types of coins, then we opened up those wrappers to count the coins. We were doublechecking to see if the Motorized Roto Sorter got the right amount of coins into each wrapper. What we found is that about one-third of the time, the count was just right. But about one-third of the time, the count was one coin short, and the other third of the time the count was one coin too many.
If you are sorting coins just to make managing your change easier, or to take to the bank to change into paper money, this is no big deal. After all, the bank isn't just going to take your word on how much the coins you are bringing in are worth: they are going to count the coins themselves.
But anyone who needs to be able to rely on an exact count should think twice about relying on the Motorized Roto Sorter.
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