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Title: Vendo 90 - Alive and well! Post by: BrianB on July 13, 2009, 08:33:10 am About 6 months ago I picked up a beater V90 locally for $75. The refrigeration was shot but the machine was otherwise in decent working condition with only few bottle shelves missing and the vending stack rigged for free vend.
I met up with Josh a couple of weekends ago to pick up a jukebox and a free, working refrigeration deck that had been removed from a transitional Vendolator 81. Long story short, I shoe-horned the donor deck into my V90 and it works like a champ! The only prob is the lines on the 81 deck are configured for the right hand side instead of the left side like the V90 requires. After a a lot of inspection and flipping the deck around, I came to the conclusion that the refrigeration lines cannot be physically bent or moved into a position that would facilitate the evaporator being installed the "correct way". In fact, no matter how you orient the deck in the lower compartment, there is no way to install the evaporator so that it sits facing the proper direction (fins to the front, fan pulling air from front to back). If you try to instal it as is with the lines on the right you run into the problem of the main door liner having no cut-out for the lines and the main door itself doesn't have the cut-out as well. So.......ended up installing the deck perpendicular to it's original, correct position. Basically the compressor is nearest the main door and the condensor coil is next to the back of the machine with the evaporator also being perpendicular to it's original position. Doesn't affect operation of the machine. Is it the way it was intended to be installed? Nope! Does it work and does it look decent, Yep! Either way..... Vendo - $90 Trip to Dayton, OH - $40 Getting a free, working refrigeration deck from a good buddy that you haven't seen in 4 years - PRICELESS! :biggrin: Title: Re: Vendo 90 - Alive and well! Post by: loman4ec on July 13, 2009, 09:28:08 am That is great news! I am so happy that the deck made it OK and works for you. I had a great time chatting with you and am happy you got these parts and brought a good machine back to life. How is the G120 project? Have you done anything to it? Let me know when you get it together. I can't wait to see if it works.
Title: Re: Vendo 90 - Alive and well! Post by: collecture on July 13, 2009, 11:34:24 am Let's see pics Brian
Title: Re: Vendo 90 - Alive and well! Post by: BrianB on July 13, 2009, 02:28:11 pm The AMI G-120 is waiting patiently until I'm done messing around with my F-120. I did examine it pretty closely and I think with some good technique and proper pre-alignment, it will fire up no problem!
I am however going to re-work the amp after at the same time I do the F-120 amp. I would say re-cap but I'm doing more than re-capping. I'm re-capping, replacing pre-amp resistors (and any other bad resistors), replacing power cord and then repaint/re-label/re-decal and test. I'll post some pics of the V 90 soon. I warn you though it's not very pretty!! :laugh: |