Vendo 39 Tweaked Drum

[Zach]

I'd tried using washers to get it to work but still the fingers only grabbed the drum in certain parts of it. When laying the drum flat on a lever surface it is flush to the surface so that means the internal shaft where it slides on to the shaft of machine is bent not where the fingers grab.

[collecture]

I would take a good hard look at everything. Would hate for you to buy a repop drum and have the same issue. If you try to roll your drum, does it roll smoothly?

[Zach]

Yeah I am 50/50 on it, Original is nice but so is being able to vend 12oz bottles, Ill spend more time with it. When I roll it has a wobble to it and a hop.

[Zach]

Here's a pic, you can tell by the gap on each side of how its tweaked.

[collecture]

Does it appear that someone may have dropped it? A flattened edge?

You can remove the front assembly from the back plate - I think it is 8 screws - may help in realigning things. Just make sure the weights are positioned correctly when you go to reassemble! I believe the front section is aluminum and the back plate heavy steel - if anything got bent it was the aluminum section. The back plate is pretty heavy duty.

[Zach]

That's whats throwing me is that the back section that catches the fingers is not bent so somehow where it slides on to the shaft is tweaked, how this could happen I have no idea. I checked the shaft and its straight so its odd. Maybe I'm missing a piece on the back of the drum or on the shaft that makes it spin straight or something?

[Zach]

I didn't know the drum came apart so I'll give that shot and see if I can figure this out.

[sodaworks]

Try unbolting the center shaft and turning it 180 and bolting back down. I accidently bolted one in one time upside down and it didn't work very well. T

[Zach]

You know what I took the shaft out and I thought it didn't matter which way it when, now I'm excited I'm gonna go give that a shot and see what happens.