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« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2013, 11:45:47 am » |
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Oh ok perfect then Matt, I will definitely get a copy, I was a bit apprehensive at first because I bought a so called " Vendo 39 restoration " manual years ago from eBay when I first started collecting and it turned out be nothing more then a few pages from the service manual along with a few crappy pictures lol
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« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2013, 02:08:07 pm » |
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The moving parts that are lubricated don't come in contact with any surface that touches the popcorn kernels or the popped corn at the end of the cycle. But, if it makes anybody feel better, they could use a "food safe oil/lubricant". The only definite exception is the motor itself, a good 20W non-detergent oil like the blue bottled 3-in-1 brand oil is perfect. There are only a few electric motor oil's that I would use: 3-in-1, Zoomspout & Royal Purple. All are excellent for older & new electric motors. On two of the Minit-Pop/U-Pop-It machines that I have restored, one of them definitely benefited from never/infrequently being cleaned. The other machine, not so much. Somebody decided that it was a great idea to leave the Oil Tank half full of nasty old, partially solidified cooking oil. It would have been ok but when you ship the machine laying down and the oil drains out all over the entire interior compartment it goes from dirty to nasty and almost impossible to clean. Matt knows exactly what I'm talking about!  You'll be amazed at the difference between dirty and cleaned. Especially the gearing and shafts, they look awesome all clean and polished! |
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« Reply #12 on: April 16, 2013, 02:55:15 pm » |
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Wow that looks great Brian, what a difference, see now that the machine is 90% disassembled, I'm debating if it's not just better to restor it now, I was planing on using it till this winter then restoring it over the winter, the kids and I are really eager to watch it pop, but now that it's apart, it might just be easier to do it while it's apart, didn't realise how big of a job just cleaning this thing would be !
Luckily for me, even though the machine had probably never been cleaned since the day it was put into service, the oil reservoir was clean as a whistle, almost looks like it was never used, it was the first thing I noticed, thought it had been replaced at first but it is original ! Anyhow, thanks again for the great advice, can't wait to get back at her tonight !
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« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2013, 07:59:15 pm » |
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Jeff, If you have your machine all apart I would restore it.. Give it a bit of freshening up! New paint, decals, chrome.. If its in your budget I would do it.. Does the machine have any rust issues?
Brian...that 3n1 oil you use is the same as I do..seems to work really good..
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« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2013, 08:36:25 pm » |
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I'm thinking the same thing, it's to bad because after cleaning half of the inside parts, they are mint, the stainless doesn't even need to be weel polished, just maybe a quick hand polish, same with all the aluminium, it looks great, even the inside of the machine is like new because of all the grease, but unfortunately the outside is a bit ruff, the bottom chrome feet definitely need re-chroming and the garbage hardly has any paint left on it, but if it wasn't for those two major things, I would just leave it as is till next winter so we can enjoy it for a bit, a full restoration is probably not in the budget right now seeing I bought a few other machines these past few weeks so it would probably be a 5 to 6 week project... By the way I bought that 3n1 oil, thanks Brian, I also bought some premium Mobile food grade grease for the gears, I could always just paint the cabinet and chrome the 4 pieces but if I'm going to do it, might as well do it right ! Full restoration !
Here I'll just post pics of it when I picked it up, it's dirty but you guys can still get a good idea of condition, let me know what you guys think !
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« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2013, 08:39:22 pm » |
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Few more pics, look at the counter lol  |
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« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2013, 08:54:13 pm » |
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I forgot to ask, does anyone know where I would be able to find the upper left power box cover ? Seems to be the only thing missing on the entire machine, it even has the original 5 gallon square pale in the back bottom, didn't realise it belonged to the machine till I noticed the bottom brackets that it fits into... Kinda cool !
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« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2013, 06:34:04 am » |
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From the pictures you provided, all major components seem to be in place (other than the junction box cover). That's great!
As far as I know, nobody advertises that they reproduce any of the three junction box covers. But, all of them are relatively easy to make using the proper gauge steel a hand brake or pan/box brake and notcher or shears. Any metal fabrication shop should be able to do it for you for fairly cheap.
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« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2013, 08:42:15 am » |
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Looking good Jeff!  Tim |
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« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2013, 12:02:02 pm » |
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Thanks Tim, and yeah I figured as much Brian, I can probably fab one myself, I was more curious to see if anyone had an extra original kicking around lol I'm figuring there are probably not to many extra of parts for these machines kickig around, and one would most likely wanna keep any spare parts for future projects, it's not like soda machines parts that come up all the time right, actually does anyone here know exactly how many of the 1948 Minit Pop machines were produced ? Would be interesting to know !
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