my calavier css-8-64

[SquareTopCollector]

Thanks to moondawg for helping me with the removal of the wood grain. I hated that wood grain. Now I love my machine even more. This machine is great. It chills soda cans to the point that the soda will have little pieces of ice but not frozen and I have the coldest beer in town. I also fixed the door because it didn’t shut correctly. When I removed the white door to see how the machine looked with a red door off my other css machine I noticed the white door was installed wrong. A few adjustments and now it shuts on its own.  



Before



And After



It looks much better, thanks Moondawg


On a sad note I am selling my other css-64  due to the cost of the compressor repair. It uses r-12 and a friend of mine who works with compressors and builds them told me it would be to costly to repair. I feel the machine isnt worth the time and money. The R-12 alone will be more than I paid for the machine.  

[ZMonet]

A can of R12 will run you about $30 on EBAY.  Is that really more than you paid for the machine.  With that said, I agree, sometimes you need to know when to give up on a machine as I think it is safe to say most of us have gone down the path of putting far more money into a machine than it is "worth".

[loman4ec]

That or you can watch ebay and buy a beat up missing parts 64 that still cools and swap the cooling system. Your machine is a USS-64 but the CSS-64 and 96 cooling systems will work.

[MoonDawg]

First........it wasn't me that helped you remove the woodgrain,
that was Josh Loman.
       Second......many, many square corner machines are worth
less than a compressor repair cost. Yours is not one of them.
The can vending system is far superior to a Vendo can stack.
No electric dispensing motors or relays or buttons to fail.
       Multiple selection / gravity feed shelves /vends the less
expensive easy to find cans / variable pricing / and Coca Cola
light-up sign, this is everything people are looking for
in a machine.

       But I've been wrong before  '>

[Pat Pixley]

Josh is right on this I would go out looking for a beat up  64 or 96
with a working compressor and do a swap. Then like Glen Said  your's has a lot going for it.   also Glen is right for now about the Sq top's, the value not there now put soon it will be, With the price of round top going up in value and as they become less and less of them  those Sq top are going to start to become the hot items to have.
 So you do have the choice to hang on to it and get it repaired or just hang on to it, Or sell it and kick your self later on when you see one on ebay  in half the shape  your was  and selling for big bucks.
 this is just my opinion  :'>
   Pat

[SquareTopCollector]

(MoonDawg @ Apr. 10 2007,10:32)

QUOTE

First........it wasn't me that helped you remove the woodgrain,
that was Josh Loman.
       Second......many, many square corner machines are worth
less than a compressor repair cost. Yours is not one of them.
The can vending system is far superior to a Vendo can stack.
No electric dispensing motors or relays or buttons to fail.
       Multiple selection / gravity feed shelves /vends the less
expensive easy to find cans / variable pricing / and Coca Cola
light-up sign, this is everything people are looking for
in a machine.

       But I've been wrong before  '>

oops, sorry Josh. Thanks for the help. Thanks Moondawg for the correction. I will hang on to the machine. You made some great points about the vending mech. I found another css on ebay that is located in Jacksonville. The only problem is that the seller wants 299.00 for the machine and its in bad shape. I emailed him with an offer of 100 bucks.