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Title: Picked this up tonight... Post by: jholmgren on January 29, 2013, 08:52:46 pm Nice little Cav USS 64. Was indoors its whole life - nice clean original. Need to clean the glass on the bottle door, but otherwise it is really clean and 100% functional. Thanks everyone for the suggestions on model. I wanted something to vend both cans and bottles and I think this will do nicely.
Tina even likes it but says the wood grain has to go! Jim Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: jholmgren on January 29, 2013, 08:53:32 pm a couple more of the inside...
Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: Creighton on January 29, 2013, 09:09:23 pm Good looking USS-64. Congrats!!
Creighton Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: tkaz on January 29, 2013, 09:11:37 pm Glad to see you got it, looks exactly like the one I got from Annapolis. The inside of the coin door is white, which means under the woodgrain is also white. I have had some that are black primer. I score around the Cavalier logo on the bottom with a razor before I pull off the woodgrain, then it stays when you peel it off, looks better in my mind.
I had posted some photos of my labeling system before, but the old posts don't have photos anymore, so I'll put them here again. I hot-glued small round (3/4") magnets from Home Depot or Michaels to each of the stacks, then you can just stick bottle caps to them to label. I bought a whole bunch and keep the extras inside the door to swap out. Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: Blind1968 on January 29, 2013, 09:26:35 pm Nice, I have been looking at one of those myself. Will be interesting to seeing what she looks like without the woodgrain :biggrin:
Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: tkaz on January 29, 2013, 09:33:17 pm Here's mine after a 'degraining'
Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: johnieG on January 29, 2013, 09:35:37 pm Wow! very clean! congrats' :drinking:
Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: kbareit on January 29, 2013, 09:45:05 pm Nice pick up Jim, your putting together quite a collection.
Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: Kilroy on January 29, 2013, 10:35:33 pm Ya done good!
Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: bcharlton on January 30, 2013, 08:33:33 am Nice job Post some pics if you decide to "degrain" it. I will doing mine when the weather breaks.
Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: jholmgren on January 30, 2013, 09:20:36 am I hope to "de-grain" it this weekend. Plan is my heat gun, plastic scraper and some "goof off" to dissolve any leftover glue. I'll keep y'all posted.
Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: mznb1u on January 30, 2013, 09:25:58 am Jim,
You will be happy with that machine. It is identical to mine, which incidentally was my first machine. I kept the grain and use it daily. Very dependable machine and can vend about everything under the sun. :drinking: Tim :drinking: Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: jholmgren on January 30, 2013, 09:47:50 am Thanks Tim - I needed something to vend cans. My boys are killing me with the cost of the bottled Cokes!
Now I can have my sugar-sweetened Mexi-Cokes and the boys can deal with the cans I can get at the local grocery store on sale - all from the same machine! Jim Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: bcharlton on January 30, 2013, 10:02:01 am Jim,
I do the same thing. Kids get the cans I get the Mexican real sugar stuff. BC Title: Re: Picked this up tonight... Post by: Roadman on January 30, 2013, 11:55:10 am I really like my restored USS64...works great every day.
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