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Title: Things you find in a working machine Post by: dr galaga on June 20, 2009, 09:03:49 am I've come across bees, wasps, and mice, but never one of these (http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000086?v=5289218&l=100000085) in a working machine :oops: !
Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: Larry on June 20, 2009, 06:35:13 pm That's where I store my coons.
Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: bubba on June 20, 2009, 06:48:35 pm Thats pretty cool...
Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: BrianB on June 20, 2009, 07:38:05 pm Sweet! 24 hour security/attendants!
Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: Pat Pixley on June 22, 2009, 09:51:12 pm That is something else I would have never believed it till I saw it. :biggrin:
Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: old times on June 22, 2009, 11:32:42 pm Great warning on the animal control guy's shirt.
Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: Basementgeek on June 23, 2009, 07:40:25 am Many years ago my boss told me that he had an old National Candy machine that a small opossum got into it and died.
The machine had to be removed and then steamed cleaned, to get rid of the smell. BG Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: mrsoda on June 23, 2009, 09:01:21 am first machine i ever got, took it to be restored and when i got it back, opened it and found a birds nest inside that the lazy ass restorer painted hammer tone and left in the machine. this was a very long time ago,
Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: loman4ec on June 23, 2009, 10:04:10 am One of my first machines I bought I brought home and put it in our apartment overnight until I could get it into storage because the apartment management was complaining about machines outside our apartment and that night a Huge brown recluse spider crawled out and into my bed. Luckily Kate saw it before we got in bed. It was huge. About the size of my fist. We killed it and took it to the biology professor at the school and he is who ID'd it as a Brown Recluse. That would have been a bad night if she hadn,t seen it.
Another time I bought a V44 from New Orleans and sent it to Tennessee and there was a big gecko in it and Kate and I kept it and named it Vendo. It escaped about a year later. Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: mznb1u on June 23, 2009, 12:19:57 pm Haven't found anything unusual in any of my machines yet but I have a Stoner 180 that I haven't drilled out the lock on the lower cabinet yet! Perhaps the :hopefull: map to Blackbeard's treasure but more likely about what Geraldo found :down: in Al Capone's vault!
I like the hammer-toned bird's nest. I will have to make a note of that: 1. Remove bird's nest before painting! Like the gecko story as well! Not so much on the brown recluse--that could have been a very bad experience indeed! :drinking: Tim :drinking: Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: oldskoolcoinop on June 23, 2009, 05:05:08 pm first machine i ever got, took it to be restored and when i got it back, opened it and found a birds nest inside that the lazy ass restorer painted hammer tone and left in the machine. this was a very long time ago, Was the nest painted hammertone too? :biggrin: (http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt333/oldskoolcoinop/05.jpg) Title: Re: Things you find in a working machine Post by: BrianB on June 24, 2009, 09:12:56 am Mainly dead mice and mouse nesting material. Nothing too nasty, that's a good thing!
I'm all about finding old coins though. Most recently, the AMI F-120 I picked up was hiding an old Buffalo Nickel in the coin box, pretty neat! |