Vendo 110

[MoonDawg]

   Looks like a nightmare, yes but not that bad.  I procrastinated for 6 months before I tackled this thing.

         Besides the rotten wood on the bottom, the door on this machine sagged way more than most 110's.

         I didn't make all new wood, just the support piece AND added a piece of angle.
When the wood rotted, there was no more lower support and the door was "floating".
I have no idea why Vendo did not manufacture this machine with lower horizontal angle just below the wood, like shown in the picture

[Creighton]

Welcome to the site. Arcadia is a great town.
Creighton

[BONOVOX]

Huh?

I think we need to stop this thread before it gets out of hand.
I think a new member with 2 posts under his/her belt with a comment like that is one that this board does NOT need.

Lets keep the thread on topic.

[tkaz]

Huh?

I think we need to stop this thread before it gets out of hand.
I think a new member with 2 posts under his/her belt with a comment like that is one that this board does NOT need.

Lets keep the thread on topic.

Agreed, this is no place for comments like that

[mznb1u]

Huh?

I think we need to stop this thread before it gets out of hand.
I think a new member with 2 posts under his/her belt with a comment like that is one that this board does NOT need.

Lets keep the thread on topic.

I too thought the comment was out of line but did not want to throw any gas on the fire!  I suspect that the poster was trying to be funny but you can take comments like that to Yahoo because there is no place for them here.

  Tim

[johnieG]

I've deleted the posts, keep it civil folks, or out you go.   

[Pat Pixley]

Well I missed that one but glad it was handled  .

[Blind1968]

Unless any of you have lived in Arcadia all your life like I have, you have no clue what this city is like now!

Got it, lets move on! Please keep in mind that the members on this site is are as widely diverse as the machines we collect. We all share a common interest, I would like to think the same interest brought you here. So lets leave that junk at the door and get back to discussing & enjoying our ever so addicting hobby  

[Fox Creek]

Going over to a Tech Shop today to see if I can scan the wood into a 3D modeling program and then produce the wood members from a CNC machine.  Way over my head at this time,  but I  liked the idea so if another member needed a set they would be easy to produce.   Learning new technology is always fun.. 

[jholmgren]

I used to work at a place that had a VERY cool CMM machine, back in the late 90's. 

I had a little training on it, you could basically put just about anything in it and it had a probe that would work its way around the part and measure everything down to extremely tight tolerances.  We used it for quality control, to make sure the parts coming off the line were within tolerance.

Very neat tool, had a ruby tipped probe with X and Y axis arms, so it could go down 'inside' a part and measure hole diameters, etc.  You just had to give it basic parameters so it would know how far to move the head before slowing down and expecting to 'hit' the part and take a measurement.   

I do remember the guy who ran it missing a decimal point once - crashed the probe head into a steal bearing housing at full speed.... HARD.  That was an expensive decimal point.   

Jim