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Picked up this week. A shout out to my buddy James for the lead and Glen for picking it up for me. James found it on CL and forward me the link. When I first saw it on my phone I wasn't too excited about it. I then looked at the ad on my PC and with a bigger photo it looked pretty cool. I saw the theater light but wasn't sure if the theater was made with the gum wheel, still don't know actually. With it already being restored and was offered at a fair price I picked it up. Now very glad I did, love the machine.

Glen took it to his shop where we took off the light bar and it took a while for us to figure it wasn't a true theater, although the light bar is because it is identical to my 8 pull theater. They cut the round holes perfect as original but the edges where just a little rough cut where it couldn't be a factory theater although close. Either way machine looks awesome as I spent a couple of nights polishing it up as it was sitting in the previous owners shop for years. The black trim and base have a couple of scrapes that I need to touch up but the machine is very clean and vends perfect, even came with a coin catcher full of dimes  :biggrin:

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Nice one for the collection Ray.

Ray, great addition looks really nice congrats

Either way it looks nice !

Looks great!  Congrats Ray

Very Nice Indeed ! ! !

Looks great , I have never seen the arrows pointing to product on an angle from the knobs up .

        That machine was in storage for a long time, I can't believe how well it cleaned up
since I last saw it!  :happydrinkers:
        Somewhere, some poor old woodgrained theater model got scrapped to give new life to this gumwheel.
        Interesting to note: those round circles were cut into the machine after it was painted.
It was done very accurately with no damage to the paint, even though it wouldn't have mattered.

Ray machine looks awesome chrome shined up nice.



Don

I couldn't tell what that was in the picture so when I asked seller on the phone he said they were penny slots. Haha.

Thanks everyone. I made the mistake of putting it in my bedroom just to see how it "looked", I kinda like it there. Makes a great night light.

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Awesome ! ! !  I'm not the only person with a vending machine in their bedroom...

And then there are those of us that can only wish............

Ray, love the reflection of the 81 d in the background. Great looking coke poster also!

Awesome score.

I have a machine or two in my bedroom. Trying to figure out what room of the house having a machine in equals "it's no longer a hobby" :)

Nothing wrong with having a machine or two in your bedroom. Its perfectly normal.

Great find! Beautiful machine!

Great machine. Wish I had time to restore mine.