Markito's V-110

The 5 Cent label is just barely smaller than the other two labels and it seems to fit the area better than the other two (but just by a hair). Does that mean anything?

I'd prefer the 5 Cent price and label, but I want to make sure it is correct for this machine.

For the other two choices, would my coin mech need coin tubes on it or anything?

Here is my mech:

Quote (Markito @ Aug. 12 2005,1:55)

Well, the screws still don't work for me, so for now I have the screws in part way and then went back to the wire work around and I'm using the screws to anchor the wires too! How's that for integrating both methods! '>

Here's a much better photo of the wires I used to make mine a free vend. You'll see that I used the screws (that didn't work for me) to actually anchor the wires. Ironic, eh?  '>

[90grad]

Markito,

I juse went through the similiar thing with the coin mech on my Cavalier 51.  When I took out the slug rejector, I could see the two slots on the vending crank mechanism.  The slot nearest me was a nickel slot, and the slot nearest to the machine was a dime slot.  I manually put a nickel and dime in the respective slots and it vended.  So, I figured I had the machine set for 15 cents.  I also wanted a nickel machine.

Jim provided the answer.  He said to pull back the hammer on the dime slot.  Now, it only needs a nickel to vend.  Similarly, if you just pull back the nickel hammer, you will need a dime to vend.  Pull back neither, and you need the full 15 cents.

Your coin mech looks like mine, a 600-series that will take both dimes and nickels.

You can read the discussion on the Cavalier 51 thread I started.  The coin stuff is around page 4 or 5.

Hope this helps.

[90grad]

'Kito,

Been thinking more about your coin issues.  They sound almost exactly like I had.  Here's what I did to solve them:

1. Take out the slug rejector and stand it up on a level table, desk etc (i.e, like it would sit in a machine).

2. Drop in a nickel.  When you pick up the mech from the table, the nickel should fall out of the bottom right of the mech (as you are looking at it).  If it comes out of the bottom left, the nickel is not getting accepted.  Same goes with a dime.  The accepted coins have to come out of that side to go into the crank mechanism.

My issue was not with dimes.  They would go in properly.  The nickels did not.  They take a different path.  The nickels go through the front part of the rejector and the dime path is in the back.

3.  The next thing I did was carefully watch where in the path the nickel was being kicked out.  It would get through the magnet and drop into the chute below (area behind the cover plates you can't really see) and then be rejected.  I found out the nickel has to bounce off an anvil with enough force to clear a pin to get to the accepted track.  My anvil was dirty, which decreased the "bounce" enough to reject the nickel.  I had boiled the rejector twice and still had to manually clean it.

I have a manual for the slug rejector which explains all this.  I will be happy to send it to you via email (it's in Adobe).  This procedure checks the elasticity of the nickel.  Email me at waynestrine@yahoo.com and I will send it out.

On my Cavalier 51 thread, there are pictures of the area I am talking about.  On my mech, some one rigged up a little clip to give the nickel extra bouce, but once I cleaned up the anvil, I didn't need the clip.  I used, per the manual's insctruction, a screwdriver with a cloth over top.

Hope this helps.

[Jim]

Mark,

When you threaded in the 6-32 screws, did they not reach the tab that hangs down or was the tab removed, bent or modified in some way...?

[MoonDawg]

Wayne, thanks for taking the time to explain. I think this should be highlighted in the coin mech. section, as it is good advice for anyone owning a mechanical or electric machine.
       Kito, You have help comming.  Josh is going to start restoring these mech.s in a few weeks. He'll get you dialed in.

[90grad]

Glen/Jim/Everyone,

Would it be possible (due to both document size and not wanting to cut our sponsors out of any $$) to have a section on the site for manuals (at least those in electronic form)?  They could be sent to a moderator, so everyone couldn't start posting large documents, and the moderator could post them.  All but one of my manuals are in Adobe, and the one that isn't could be if I scanned it.

Markito's issue got me to thinking there are many of us with many different manuals and a "library" section may help those in need who need a quick answer.  All of us can't be on the board at the same time, so sometimes an answer doesn't come as quickly as one would like.  It's easy to become impatient when you're working on something.

Just a thought...

[Kevin C]

Markito


Did you get your V110 up & running?  On your profile it is still listed as in the garage.

Kevin