I have retired from this line of work, effective Feb 2024. So, Im sorry but I am not taking any more work, nor offering advice etc. (which is my email and phone are no longer listed). I have closed this business and sold most of my tools. However, here […]
Misc / Shop Updates
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“My drinks are not getting cold and when I open up the machine the evaporator is a block of frost or ice!” There are a few possible reasons for this. 75% of the time it is one of the reasons below. It’s important that you defrost the machine completely before […]
Here’s a question we get asked often. And rightly so, I know when I got my first machine I wanted to determine the year it was made. So how do I find out what date my vintage drink Coke or Pepsi machine was made? A. There are a few […]
Before Images We recently finished this Cavalier 51 machine. These are a beautiful 1950s machine that uses a mechanical coin mechansim and vending advance system. Inside the bottles are loaded into an ammo belt like chain. Each crank of the handle advances the belt to to the next bottle, lining […]
We are starting a full restore on a Vendo 39 for a customer. We just got the machine in, and I thought we would share what we found inside. Somewhere in the past, someone had rigged it up to vend cans, which can normally be tricky on this model. We will be putting it all back to original during the restoration, but this idea was simple and rather clever.