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After reading several posts promoting "get the word out" and let everybody know that you like soda machines, I have been mentioning it to people that I run into here and there.
Well, I got a VM tonight from a guy I have been doing business with. He was driving down the road and some guy was tossing out an older Pepsi and Coke machine. I have yet to know anything more about them, but he said he thinks I'll want them. He is going to come by in the morning - if I want them I can take them or he'll get rid of them.
I didn't get the impression that they are round tops, but I am hoping for a ST 56 or ST81.
We'll see!  :biggrin:

WOW.. thats awesome Tom... good luck.. I hope it turns out to be something worthwhile.

Keep us posted...
I'm not sure how you'll get anything done today with all the wondering you'll be doing about these machines coming your way...

I talked to him this morning.
Selection button type machines.
Pepsi has three selections and the Coke has six selections.
He coming by later today with them on his trailer.
We'll see!!

Nice network working there Tom....   :hopefull:

Tom, I get most of my stuff from networking. Everyone who knows me knows what I'm after.

well I would like to take the time to put the advice you all have given to me to good use...

If any of you come across a soda machine please let me know because I collect them! :biggrin:


Cant wait to see your score collecture!  3 selection pepsi machine sounds interesting.

Maybe the buttons will be little red ones...
Just trying to be optimistic and lean toward a couple of round-tops...

He just dropped them off...
and...
One is a Westinghouse WB78 6 selection;
the other is a Choice Vend 150 PC 3 Flavor (not listed in the Soda Section). It looks exactly like the 2 Flavor, but has 3 selections.

Not really my taste and not in the greatest shape, but I took them anyway thinking that if anybody on the site wants any parts...I'll take it off - box it up and ship it - you just pay the shipping.
Here is a pic!

The CV-150 PC is probably very similar to the ones pictured under Choice Vend CV-150 (http://soda-machines.com/content/view/340/14/)
The PC designates it as a Pepsi Cola machine.
May this guy will run into some more stuff and remember you...

Jim - The Soda Section is where I got the CV-150 info from, but I did not see a 3 selection machine.
The Choice Vend has what is called an XR Relay Box in it.
Wasn't somebody looking for something related to this setup.

I think the CV-150 is a three selection model...
The photos show it as that.

Tom,  do they both run and get cold ?
 if so clean them up repair what need to be
repaired,
Then sell them and make some cash
off of them. :glare:

  If not part them out and sell the part off .

Pat    :smile:

good idea

The Westinghouse is missing both door latches and two of the columns inside have been butchered (I guess to make a separate cooled area that won't vend).
The Choice Vend is the only one that I could possibly do that to, but I really don't think it would be worth my time  - it looks pretty complete though.
I really got too much going on - much more pressing obligations to deal with.
If nobody here has any interest in parts, then I'll do something with them.

will that pepsi sign come off?

All of the buttons and the sign on the Choice Vend are cracked/busted - it is yours if you want it though. I am sure I can get it off.
If I had seen these on the street, I probably would not have picked them up. Well - free?? - maybe I might on the Choice Vend.
I didn't want to snub the guy though - I want him to bring me more, but hopefully older and in better condition.

Oh come on Tom  spend a hour or two get it cleaned up and I'll bet  you could
sell it , It would be extra cash in you pocket , What have you got to lose   :glare:

The other part out sell the parts off on ebay or Craig's list or here or were ever, again
that would take a hour or two of your time.
Now that what I would do and I'm would like to think some of the others would do the sme thing.

 If these were dumped in my lap I would be happy as  punch and I would do exactly
what I said  (well I would be keeping those part for the future) :smile:

Pat

good call on not snubbing the guy, that way he will continue to bring you more machines if he comes across them. I would give him a call to say thanks.

My wife even said it was a good call - I was totally expecting a "get this *&%# out of here" response. :oh:

Jim,
It looks more like the pic under Choice Vend 150-PC 2 flavor than either of the pics you have for the Choice Vend CV-150, but you do not mention a 3 flavor under that style.

Pat,
The Westinghouse is pretty much trash - the bottle stack has been butchered (the top 18" of two of the columns are missing and look like they were put into a shredder) and it is missing other parts in both inside the coin door and the vend cabinet.

The Pepsi machine would be the only one I would spend any time with. It is complete and pretty clean - just AZ dusty. The major problem with it is that both side vents are bashed in - one severely and the coin return lever is busted. I may end up keeping it.
I may take the bottle stack out and all the other vitals and sit on them for a while - I do think it is a cool machine and would make a great fantasy DP machine! I have never owned a Choice Vend, but I do seem to recall reading that parts are hard to come by.
Do I have any luck of finding a nicer cabinet?

I don't know why I didn't think of that model Tom...

Hey Tom - I have a ChoiceVend (also a donor).  The electro-mechanical vending on mine is flaky... works most times but sometimes gets stuck on.  I think it's the relays... If yours has anything similar, I'd be interested in the parts.  Would also like to see what kind of t-stat came with yours.  Let me know.

Bryan,
I do not see anything like that on mine, but yours appears to have a bottle door - mine doesn't. I'll try to snap a shot of the T-stat later tonight.
I may hold onto the CV for a little while - it is complete, but needs some work. Man it is one heavy machine though - I tried to pull it back on a two wheel dolly and couldn't get it to tip enough.
I took the Westy apart today - got the mech, bezels, selection panel, lighted marquee (will probably keep this for a custom backlit light), vend assembly (motor was mssing) - pretty much everything exept the butchered bottle stack, compressor and body - so if ANYBODY wants something from it, let me know; otherwise, I'll just store them. I think they are the same as the WC, but not sure. I can get a pic to anybody interested.

Bryan,

There is a way to fix your flaky vend circuit.

First, take a small flathead screwdriver and make sure that your switch stacks are nice and tight.

Second, purchase a Flexstone Contact File or double up some 300 grit sandpaper and place it in between the contacts on your switch stacks and draw the file/paper back and forth a few times and then look to see if you have bright and shiny or black and sooty. Repeat until you see bright and shiny.

Third, check and make sure that the gap between the switch contacts are adjusted to about 1/16th inch. There are special tools that made for adjusting contacts but you can get away with using a pair of needle nose pliers. If you need to make an adjustment, take your needle nose pliers and grasp the contact blade at the very base closest to the screws and rotate your pliers either up or down depending on how it needs to be adjusted. NEVER adjust the switch blade from anywhere else but the base! If you do you will damage the switch and reduce the spring tension thereby making the switch more likely to fail.

The best source that I have found for both the Flexstone File and the Switch Adjustment tools is Marco Specialties. They are a Pinball Supply company that I use all of the time. Both tools can be had for under $3.00.

Brian - thanks for the tip.  I'll try it out as soon as I can get back to the machine. Garage is jammed with furniture we're waiting for a friend to come pick up... while we get a 3rd car garage (aka my new shop) built.  Yea!  :drinking:

Tom - thanks for looking.