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« on: June 29, 2008, 12:53:33 am »

I'm watching this, but do not know what I'm watching!...a V-56...a smokestack?
I have all the parts to complete a 56 shell - but the split front door??,..the cylindrical vent that extends into the compressor area?
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2008, 01:04:33 am »

Looks to me that someone made it into a " smoker" for Meat at one point...... people apparently do that with old fridges too........ laugh
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« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2008, 01:55:41 am »

Looks to me that someone made it into a " smoker" for Meat at one point...... people apparently do that with old fridges too........ laugh

Wouldn't there be soot inside and everything be black?

and why the split main door??
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« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2008, 09:02:31 am »

Looks like they got busy on the door with a die-grinder & a cut-off wheel, they probably split the door in an effort to isolate the "firebox" , no soot just means they never got to put it use , which may be a good thing. could be worse, it could have been turned into a hen house!  laugh
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« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2008, 12:25:14 pm »

They went through a lot of trouble just to screw up a great machine.
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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2008, 11:24:55 pm »

Ive been watching this one as well its 65 miles from my house, Ive seen 56s, and 81s turned into smokers. Hillbillys will do anything around here!

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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2008, 12:00:33 am »

It's a shame to see a nice old machine carved up like that down

But you have to admit, restored that would be the coolest smoker on the block biggrin
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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2008, 10:13:12 am »

YEP
It's a SMoker... My Grandfather had and 81b made into on YEARS ago up at the cabin... (by the time I was into machines, it was long gone, but remember seeing it in action...

Fire in teh firebox below, Meat in the cabinet , vented out top!  They actually used to do this to several machines when he owned the old Coke plant and these machines where going to the dumps in the 70's 80's....

We had an 81 in our Garage to keep worms cool....a few beers of my Dad's too but mainly used for fishing worms!
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« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2008, 12:18:55 am »

Amazing what they did with the old machines back a few years ago.  When I was here in Del Rio the first time, back in 1990/91, I was told of a dump about 2 hours from here where the Coke distributor disposed of their old machines when they took them out of service.  The guy had been out there a few times himself to see them.  He said they didn't want folks to get ahold of their old machines, so they would take them in a truck to this dumpsite, push them off the truck, and then run them over with a dozer so they couldn't be used.  They wouldn't salvage anything off them.  He remembers seeing MANY 44s, 81s, 39s and the likes.  I can't remember where it was or how to get ahold of the guy to find out where it is.  Can you imagine seeing someone do that?!?   darn   censored   veryangry
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« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2008, 12:27:26 am »

Stories like that abound!
I talked to guys who worked at a distributorship that said their boss told them to just clear out the back room full of old signs - take it all to the dump!
Can you just imagine though if all this didn't happen??
There would be tons of it around and not a lot of collectibility and that is the bright side.
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