# Threaded Quarter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threaded-quarter/687520 "2014-05-02T18:26:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threaded-quarter/687520/1 "2014-05-02T18:26:35Z")
When I was in my early teens my friends and I would “rack-up” a bunch of free games on pinball and other machines by taping a length of thread to a quarter and slowly dropping it into the coin slot and gently moving it up and down. Anyone else do this? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threaded-quarter/687520/2 "2014-05-02T18:44:27Z")
Sure, but later coin acceptors were much better at preventing this. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threaded-quarter/687520/3 "2014-05-04T04:07:36Z")
The only thing I ever robbed like that was the Magic Fingers motel bed vibrator. A dime in a 6 inch long piece of cellophane tape worked fine.