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This is the white tom's 5 pull machine I have been Waiting on It got here after I wrote the new stuff for 2014 Thread. I just wanted o share my pics with you all here. This is a hard one to find in this color scheme and size.


              Thanks Donnie

Congrats. It looks great

very nice.. love those.. remember some of those still in service when I was a kid... heck even remember a stoner 180...
early 1970s... Man I'm gett'n old...  :wow:

I never was a big fan of those but seeing all 3 like that lined up I must say they look pretty cool.

Very Nice!

Those little cheese and crackers or peanut butter and crackers... sitting at a garage or old tire shop waiting
for service on my parents car.. I'd get the crackers and a bottled soda out of a old beat up grimy ST....
awesome! Nice line up! :happydrinkers:

Does anything in modern packaging vend out of them?  I have heard mix results about be able to vend modern product packaging:..

They look great!

A flat pack of crackers will vend out of center column. They used to vend 4 pack square crackers.

A very nice collection!

The square 6 pack of crackers?  How do you access the coin mechanism? I would like to get mine working.

I am not if front of mine now, but the right outside panel actually lifts up and out to review the coin mech inside.  It was not obvious to me, but Jim helped me.   If you need more detail I can take a picture of mine and post it.

That's right the right side panel where coins lot is lifts up after you access the top area.

Here are some pictures I just took.  They show the steps of getting to the coin mech.  Hope that helps. 

Thanks for posting.  Is that a Victor C-14 in the background?  :laugh:

Slapshot42,

No problem on the posting.  You guys on this site do so much to help me, I am just happy to be able to return the favor.    In regards to the Victor, no it is not a C-14, but try a C-14 x 4 = C-45.   Picked it up several months ago for pretty cheap.  It is a beast, but was working before I started taking it apart to clean it.   Hopefully it will be running when I get it back together.  :hopefull:

  Looks like a very nice 5 pull.  Do you have yours vending product?

  I saw a 5 Pull on one of my first picks.  I have looked, and looked for a 5 Pull Tom's Machine and came up short with a 7 Pull for $200.  Had to pay double for shipping but I didn't care it was one of those machines I had to have!

  They are just a cool looking,  out of my entire collection I get a lot of comments about it...

They are pretty cool.  Mine needs to be taken apart and cleaned, but I have not had time up to this point.  I have tried several different products and besides getting a 6 pack of crackers to work sometimes in the center slot I have had no luck.  This part has been disappointing as I really want to use it.  If you ever figure out some product that works please let me know. 

You might look at adjusting the "spacer" that controls the width of the opening the product can slide through to vend...  I have 6 pack crackers vending properly through the center column.

Never seen a white Tom's machine before... very cool!

Thanks I was glad to get it . I bid on a new old stock one last year but was outbid but I finally got one. I used to collect a lot of tom's and lance cracker stuff goat a lot of different racks and jars and some pretty rare stuff. NOrth Carolina is LANCE cracker country!!!!!! I got a neat cabinet that hangs on wall for dispensing crackers on honor system I will post picture later .


                  Donnie

Hey Don, where you at in NC as i am in NC also....near Raleigh

^^ Crackerman,
 I sent you a private message. I am in Portland, Oregon.

I am north of Greensboro !

I drive by the Lance factory here in Charlotte pretty often, my neighbor has worked sales for them for a long time now and we recently were talking about how they used to destroy all the old machines when replaced with new.  Especially after Tom's was bought by Lance.  He says he could have filled his garage with all the old machines, but nobody wanted them so off to the scrapyard they went.

Yeah TKAZ that's true my friend is an old retired lance salesman and he has some good stories like that too. I have a lot of pictures from the factory that show machines and displays set ups and old delivery tricks. They tell a neat story from long ago, big difference today.

 

         Donnie

Don,

So we are not that far apart.  I would love to see some of the pictures you are referring to..

Ndercole I sent you a pm .

        Donnie

Here are a couple pictures of the Tom's cabinet that I promised to post. These don't come up for auction very often they are really rare. These would have been one the honor system . I bet that would not work in today's society.LOL

I posted same picture twice sorry. Here is a another one

Very cool.....

Don't stop with these 2 pics there's tons of stuff in the background... break out the camera man! :smile:

The "honor" one is really cool

My first post here, great site! Yours is only the 3rd complete white machine I've saw. I bought one this past summer, and like it! Does yours have black pull knobs? Or red? Here's a picture of mine. All original! Gets lots of compliments!

(http://i1081.photobucket.com/albums/j358/bwfergie60/FB88687A-5E4C-403A-B965-94C7C05341F7.jpg) (http://s1081.photobucket.com/user/bwfergie60/media/FB88687A-5E4C-403A-B965-94C7C05341F7.jpg.html)

Wow.. that is nice!  Nice find! :happydrinkers: