Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: SIGNGUY on July 18, 2007, 02:31:49 pm
My Father got a call last night from an old family friend (92yr old guy) said he's cleaning out the shed and wanted to know if my dad wanted the old coke machines back that he got from my Grandfather back in 60's. (My Grandfather owned a bottling plant here at home) He didn't know what he had but figured worth a look, and might as well bring the trailer along...
Picked up this embossed pepsi ideal slider /missing rack. and what i believe is a Mills 65? pretty sure from the pictures Jim has on the site.. Mills is missing guts and was used to put pony keg of beer in for years, and guy said it stopped cooling years ago so we'll have to check that out... and the Ideal, well for free... I'll take it!
Stuff is still out there... I scanned the pole barn pretty good before I left, didn't see much else, but figured I'd made out ok...
I'll be digging into them tonight to see if I can get em running...
Picked up this embossed pepsi ideal slider /missing rack. and what i believe is a Mills 65? pretty sure from the pictures Jim has on the site.. Mills is missing guts and was used to put pony keg of beer in for years, and guy said it stopped cooling years ago so we'll have to check that out... and the Ideal, well for free... I'll take it!
Stuff is still out there... I scanned the pole barn pretty good before I left, didn't see much else, but figured I'd made out ok...
I'll be digging into them tonight to see if I can get em running...Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: MoonDawg on July 18, 2007, 02:49:58 pm
That Pepsi slider will clean up like new, nice original at a great price!
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: BrianB on July 18, 2007, 03:15:47 pm
What a deal!!
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: Creighton on July 18, 2007, 03:55:27 pm
What a great story!! Never leave home without the trailer :-)
Creighton
Creighton
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: Eric on July 18, 2007, 04:03:50 pm
Whooo-Hooo! Awesome! and they were your grandfathers how cool!
They are finally home! I wouldn't care if I never found the guts to that Mill
that would be a keeper...make it a cabinet till the parts come along.
Congrats!
They are finally home! I wouldn't care if I never found the guts to that Mill
that would be a keeper...make it a cabinet till the parts come along.
Congrats!
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: BryanH on July 18, 2007, 04:22:08 pm
Hard to complain about free... and like Eric said there's family history to boot. Nice deal.
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: FDNY1975 on July 18, 2007, 05:22:25 pm
Can't pass a deal like that up, Good luck.
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: Seven181 on July 18, 2007, 05:48:50 pm
Awesome and it has family history!!! SWEET!!!!
Brian
Brian
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: Jim on July 18, 2007, 06:27:10 pm
As the other have said...
Awesome score with a nice story to talk about ! ! !
Awesome score with a nice story to talk about ! ! !
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: Kilroy on July 18, 2007, 07:46:31 pm
Why can't I have family friends like that??
Great score!
Great score!
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: SIGNGUY on July 18, 2007, 11:40:02 pm
Thanks Guys... it's finds like these that just keep this addiction... I mean hobby alive.. I just spent a few hours digging into the Mills, took the plates off that where blocking the two holes on top, I'm guessing that is where the coins where fed into a coin mech? sure would love to see a close up photo if anyone has one. It's missing the coin mech and internal rack assembly and probably will never find a replacement. But I'll probably clean it up, repaint the front area that is suppose to be metal color? maybe hammertone it as it looks like that was original kind of like the original stoner candy machine paint. Got the door to shut after drillig locks out and it even cooled when I plugged it in carefully as it needs a new cord.
one other thing since I'm rambling on an on.... I took a closer look at the slider and you can see some spots of layered paint and where it was rubbed off.. it original was the dark Blue Pepsi color, then it was painted Coke red at some point then Repainted the Light blue Pepsi color and has a decal actually pasted over the original embossed logo.. very strange as the decal and the embossing don't quite exactly line up... I wil strip it and do it properly this time however.. thanks for reading...I'm just having fun!
one other thing since I'm rambling on an on.... I took a closer look at the slider and you can see some spots of layered paint and where it was rubbed off.. it original was the dark Blue Pepsi color, then it was painted Coke red at some point then Repainted the Light blue Pepsi color and has a decal actually pasted over the original embossed logo.. very strange as the decal and the embossing don't quite exactly line up... I wil strip it and do it properly this time however.. thanks for reading...I'm just having fun!
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: loman4ec on July 19, 2007, 05:12:52 am
Try Colamachines.com. They have some nice pisc of the machine inside and out. Here is the link http://www.colamachines.com/imagega....bum=195
Sorry to post a link to the competition website but it does have some good pics of the machine. Great find! I like those pepsi sliders
Sorry to post a link to the competition website but it does have some good pics of the machine. Great find! I like those pepsi sliders
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: Eric on July 19, 2007, 07:37:05 am
There's a rusty Mills waiting to be gutted out there... just take your time on yours
and get it ready... with this group looking one will pop up!
and get it ready... with this group looking one will pop up!
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: SIGNGUY on July 19, 2007, 09:36:59 am
Great thanks for the link to the photos Josh... it's actually a pretty cool looking machine restored...What do think the 3 color wheel or button is for on the left side? I'm assuming it's a single drink vendor, even thought it looks like seperate racks on the inside?
I got anxious and drilled out one lock last night to get the door to close, then I get in the office this morning and the guy I got the machines from came in and he had the ORIGINAL KEY for the machine!!!
I still can use it as I didn't drill out the coin door lock...
I got anxious and drilled out one lock last night to get the door to close, then I get in the office this morning and the guy I got the machines from came in and he had the ORIGINAL KEY for the machine!!!
I still can use it as I didn't drill out the coin door lock...
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: sodaworks on July 19, 2007, 10:41:32 am
Nice score!!
Title: Free Ideal Pepsi and Mills 65
Post by: Ltransam on July 19, 2007, 10:07:21 pm
SignGuy
Family History & Free It Dose"nt get any better
Ltransam
Family History & Free
It Dose"nt get any better Ltransam