How To: Hack a coin operated laundry machine

What is that tool and where did you get it?

Seems like as soon as they open up to collect the coins they'll see the line tied to the switch. Perhaps just a small hole where you could insert a hooked tool (clothes hanger? Nut pick?) that you could stick in and flip that switch would be better.

This is the reason I have 28 cameras In my laundry. If you do this you are a Thief. Do in my laundry you will be in jail.

Ha! Couldn't agree with yiu more Mr. Cox.

ahahahaahahhaah laundry police! thats a sad man

So this site thinks it's ok to promote crime? How about a hack about how to break into a bank vault or liquor store?

yes we obviously
think its ok to promote a crime... fuck off

you equate washing my fucking socks for free to robbing a bank? really???????

Here is a landlord perspective on 'minor hacking for just some laundry quarters'. I have three buildings with coin W/D in basements. That's 32 apartments families that dont have to drive out to remote laundromats after work at night. Many dont have cars.

But, after too much hacking I shut down my on-site laundries. So, a few anti-social looser's got some washing free, and stole some quarters, , but now 32 families have to drive across town, or what ever, for laundry.

I suspect the hacker's think landlords are raking the money from those W/D's and so deserve hacking.. But, the numbers for me show coin laundries only break even, at best, and are there to make tenants' lives easier. That is, no profit. Dont believe me? Try it for your self.

So, hackers, I quite the laundry business . It makes my life much simpler, but you have made many, many renters lives harder.

32 families and many dont have cars... Now it can either be a treasured convenience or an easy target.. main thing here is the fact that many many property managers and landlords see this as a come up and charge 5$ per use of each machine, and then make sure that their dryers are half ass so the tenants need to use them twice if they want to have completely dry clothing. greed always paints a pretty target

You could have regular, non coin operated machines and charge tenets a small fee every month added on to their rent. That would also make everyone look out for the machines so they could protect their investment.. Otherwise, we're gonna try n hack that shit! Damn the man. I gotta wear clothes to go to work. Gotta go to work to pay rent.

@ Alex- sounds like you were responsible for making your tenets lives harder for something that wasn't their fault . SMH

until the landlord gets new machines that take loadable cards for there machines. of course where there is a will there is a way i guess.

Hmm...

For starters, I taught myself how to pick locks and make 'master' keys for the same name padlocks. Bypass file cabinet/desk locks, rotary briefcase locks ....and so on. That was about 35-40 years ago and I was about 13 years old then. It was fun and a challenge. So, several years later I worked for the University of Pittsburgh maintenance department while earning my degree in Electrical Engineering. While I didn't work directly on any vending machines per-se, there were several coin mechanisms laying about begging to be studied! About a week later, I was able to do my OWN laundry at the laundromat on my block for free also! It was simple, thin down the "Quarters" a mill or two and they activated the mechanism but came right back out and into my pocked for the next load. These were laid flat and pushed in. Only 50c back then but as a student on a. ,shoestring budget it helped. I considered making and selling them, but that would put me in jeopardy with the law and probably reveal the trick. The beauty was the owners of the shop were none the wiser as I left no evidence what so ever except the trial runs. But they were real quarters, so it was a clean job (whoa, pun there!). The funny part though, is later down the road I also acquired rental properties and provided laundry for FREE (payback to society). That service really didn't cost me much at all except the repair jobs to get the free broken washer and dryer up and running. The payout to me was BIG. Dependable long-term renters who appreciated the convenience and referred other renters to me known to be of the same caliber.

Just thought I'd share.

Yeah but where in the world would someone get that tool. I'd say it would be an awesome hack if it were don't with something that I already have laying around the house but this requires finding and purchasing a tool that can be used for this one purpose only. Shoot might as well just pay the $1.00 for my laundry .

can anyone who was able to see this video at one point in time fill me in?? Youtube and the laundry police are on BS