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« on: October 06, 2009, 07:34:00 pm » |
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Is that a water fountain on top of this cooler? What is the cooler worth? A guy near me wants to sell it. He says it all is working.
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Anderson
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« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2009, 09:11:06 pm » |
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It is a Westinghouse Standard, but the lid isn't in the same configuration I am used to seeing. Appears to be an ice only cooler, meaning the bottles are stacked in the box and ice is poured on top of the sodas.
I have one I paid $150.00 for and then I had it media blasted and powder coated for another $300.00. I had to buy two lids at $90.00 each ,and the hinges along with the gaskets, another $40.00. (All of these parts are available from the after market.) So I figure I have nearly $700.00 in it, and I haven't had the lids painted nor have I had the lettering done yet. So it is also not finished.
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Gumbo
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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2009, 07:57:56 pm » |
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Is that a water fountain on top?
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« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2009, 08:03:00 pm » |
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I don't think so. I bet it is something just sitting on top.
Best bet though is to ask the seller. I would love to know if it is a water fountain, and if so, how does it cool the water down.
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« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2009, 08:10:37 pm » |
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Yes it is a fountain - I have seen them several times on 40's coolers.
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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2009, 07:42:52 am » |
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The seller wants $500 for it.   |
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« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2009, 08:51:50 am » |
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It cools the water by running the water through a very long copper tube that is coiled up. so in that machine since it is an ice cooler the cold ice water cooled the lines and cooled the water. The copper line is special for water line and is plastic coated so it won't corrode and you won't get copper poisoning.
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« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2009, 10:49:28 am » |
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You can't get copper poisoning from the copper pipe. That's what's in most houses built from the 50' to present.
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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2009, 11:55:18 am » |
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Is that a water fountain on top of this cooler? What is the cooler worth? A guy near me wants to sell it. He says it all is working.
Um what can't work on an ice chest? |
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« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2009, 04:23:04 pm » |
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Never heard of copper poisoning!  |
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« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2009, 09:15:36 pm » |
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You can get lead in the water from lead water pipe they used from the mains to the house.They use to get poisoned from pewter plates and mugs years and years ago.
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« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2009, 11:35:35 pm » |
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Ok never mind then. Yes you can get copper poisoning. Its a long story but my Dad got it bad once from drinking coors beer back in the day. Thats a really long story
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« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2009, 06:38:44 pm » |
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Wow! I would never have thought that to be an issue.
Anyway, if the machines gets bought, please post pictures of the water fountain and the coils. I have never seen an ice cooler with a water fountain. I think it is interesting find. $500.00 might be a little steep in todays market.
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« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2009, 06:00:50 pm » |
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I also find it hard to believe you can get poisoning from copper pipes. If that were the case every builder of new homes would be in court right now fighting lawsuits. better check your daddys story again
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« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2009, 07:11:16 pm » |
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Bad beer, Sure. All the ushers, myself included in my sister's wedding got food poisoning from what we think was caused by dirty lines from the keg at the deli we all stopped at.
Up until the early 80's, Coors needed to refrigerated ( Remember Smoky & the Bandit??) before they changed their brewing process ( and the reason it wasn't sold east of the Mississippi, so I've been told), so Coors could have caused illness, but i have to dispute the copper poisoning.
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« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2009, 12:30:59 am » |
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neither article mentions copper poisoning from drinking water thru copper water supply lines. I have never worked in or plan on working in a copper mine so i guess i'll be otay spanky  |
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« Reply #17 on: October 11, 2009, 01:02:57 am » |
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No I am not arguing that coper water line will cause copper poisoning. I didn't even think about house water lines being copper. I just know that the line I used was special for use with liquids for consumption and I am pretty sure is was plastic lined. I just figured that was the reason.
I totally agree that you cannot get copper poisoning from copper pipes. And there is no way of telling if that is actually what made my dad have high levels of copper in his body. They went through different occurrences in his life with the doctor and the doctor said that it was the beer incident that caused it.
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« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2009, 07:30:04 pm » |
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You can get copper poisoning if you run any carbonated beverage through copper lines, the carbonic-acid reacts with the copper to form copper carbonate ( the evil twin of good old sodium bicarbonate/baking soda) which will make you sick as hell, with flu-like symptoms, fever, nausea, the porcelain-trots..etc etc... this is why you NEVER use copper lines with any soda-fountain serving system, if the back-flow device fails, the carbonated water will back into the copper supply lines & flushes back trough the system into your favorite beverage, so use stainless-steel or food grade high pressure plastic supply lines for your water to the carbonator & syrup lines.
this isn't an issue with potable water fountains. such as this case.
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