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Title: Re-Purposed Cigarette Machine Post by: tshulman on April 01, 2013, 02:31:21 pm I was traveling in LA last week & found this re-purposed cigarette machine in a hotel lobby; it now vends small pieces of art. I had to explain to my teenagers what the machine was, and how common they were when I was growing up. I did some research and found a related website: www.artomat.org
-Todd Title: Re: Re-Purposed Cigarette Machine Post by: rayg on April 01, 2013, 05:39:00 pm It's a unique re-purposing of the old cigarette machines..... and it won't cause cancer it's a Win-Win!
Title: Re: Re-Purposed Cigarette Machine Post by: tkaz on April 01, 2013, 08:52:05 pm I can't remember if there was a post on these at some point here before, or if someone in m family had sent me a link to them. I actually was talking with the seller of a cigarette machine I posted a couple weeks ago and he's part of the company. Pretty cool idea to do something with those machines, I always remember them from the big pizza restaurants that were in my hometown.
Title: Re: Re-Purposed Cigarette Machine Post by: Creighton on April 01, 2013, 10:18:56 pm They just put two in at the locale University.
$5.00 dollars. Artist gets half. Gonna be pretty slap dash "Art" for 5 bucks. Showed it to Linda. She thought $10.00 75/25 split worth considering. Takes a lot of material cost and time to create anything worth buying. Saving any and all vending machines is good. Have yet to see a good enough picture of how a bill validator is wired in and attached to these coin mech machines. Any insight, Thanks!! Creighton Title: Re: Re-Purposed Cigarette Machine Post by: Basementgeek on April 03, 2013, 07:15:25 pm Just an FYI only
Appears to be a National 222 Cigarette. The selling price (New) was $395.00 F.O.B St Louis. The little vending company I worked for used them for a number of years, filled a number of them. Just found a 16 Jan 66 National Vendors Equipment price list. We had a couple of them that had side mounted bill acceptors. I think still used the original sidewall. The biller acceptor just had to trip a lever on the sidewall. We also used this company to supply OTC/Travel stuff for vend/sale in 2-3 motels. Came in little boxes the size of a pack of cigarettes. http://www.merchavend.com/ BG Title: Re: Re-Purposed Cigarette Machine Post by: BrianS on April 03, 2013, 10:59:56 pm Better be a change machine handy, I don't think those came with a bill changer option. Not many people walking around with $5 in quarters handy.
Title: Re: Re-Purposed Cigarette Machine Post by: Kilroy on April 04, 2013, 07:15:06 am I thinkk you pay $5.00 to the cashier, and receive tokens to make your selection. At least that is how it was explained to me
Title: Re: Re-Purposed Cigarette Machine Post by: cohammer on April 05, 2013, 09:27:54 am I saw a machine like that in the back of a hotel still in use but did not look at how payment was made. I was working on a pipe in the laundry and I guess the lobby would tell people where it was at because I did see people stepping thru the door to use it.
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