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Title: Who says glass bottle soda machines are obsolete? Post by: Pixel on December 20, 2013, 11:54:03 pm Here's a YouTube video showing a modern glass bottle Coke machine in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzVEAFGJi5c (http://soda-machines.com/discussions/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=18752.0;attach=45752;image) Okay, so it has push buttons, but it's still more evocative of an old slant shelf than I ever thought I'd see out of a modern non-reproduction machine. Title: Re: Who says glass bottle soda machines are obsolete? Post by: BONOVOX on December 21, 2013, 01:50:11 am I wonder if this coin mech will fit a Large door 81 :tounge:t
Thanks for posting.... will have to look out for it on my next trip there! :happydrinkers: Title: Re: Who says glass bottle soda machines are obsolete? Post by: MoonDawg on December 21, 2013, 09:21:00 am WOW! Thanks for the post Pixel. Reading comments following that video shows a lot of new interest in glass bottles and bottle machines.
A couple of years ago Slider Bob sold a restored machine to the Vendo Company, who had it FLOWN to Japan for their special 50'th anniversary. They had been searching for an early Vendo 63 only! Old post: http://soda-machines.com/discussions/index.php/topic,13976.0.html (http://soda-machines.com/discussions/index.php/topic,13976.0.html) Could this have been used as a prototype to build a modern machine? :Oo: Title: Re: Who says glass bottle soda machines are obsolete? Post by: MoonDawg on December 21, 2013, 10:35:58 am Found a picture of Bob's old machine in it's new home.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/economy/business/AJ201212230013 (http://ajw.asahi.com/article/economy/business/AJ201212230013) Title: Re: Who says glass bottle soda machines are obsolete? Post by: Pixel on December 21, 2013, 01:34:02 pm WOW! Thanks for the post Pixel. Reading comments following that video shows a lot of new interest in glass bottles and bottle machines. A couple of years ago Slider Bob sold a restored machine to the Vendo Company, who had it FLOWN to Japan for their special 50'th anniversary. They had been searching for an early Vendo 63 only! Old post: http://soda-machines.com/discussions/index.php/topic,13976.0.html (http://soda-machines.com/discussions/index.php/topic,13976.0.html) Could this have been used as a prototype to build a modern machine? :Oo: You're welcome, and thank you for not dismissing it just because of the push button vending. :laugh: I just wish I could've heard the machine vend. From what I read, the Japanese really like vending machines, and buy all kinds of thing from them. They even have machines for high value items like game consoles and other high-end electronics. Seems a Japanese company bought out Vendo some time ago. I wish we could have a machine like this one. It could be fixed up to vend more than one type of packaging if that is the problem. I went to the Sanden Japanese website. Their English pages would not even show their machines, just a notice that they sold only in Japan. :down: When I looked at the Japanese version, I did not this machine listed, though I could've missed it. I can't actually speak Japanese, I was looking at the pictures. :biggrin: I'm not sure who made this machine. It may be a Japan-only company. :down: I counted 8 selections. It could just be a conicidence, but 8 selections suggest a possible Cavalier influence to me. If I've read it right, it's selling 190ml bottles at 100 Yen each. That's about $1.10 or so for a 6 1/2 fl oz glass bottle. That's about what I'd expect these to sell for cold here, with glass bottles as expensive as they are. 190ml is about 6.42 fl oz. I bet it could vend 6 1/2 oz bottle no sweat. A square top machine that vends 8 selections, (approx.) 6 1/2 fl oz glass bottles, and has a glass bottle door. Sounds like I could be describing a Cav 64, doesn't it? |