DIY machine

[CoolCat]

That's great! 

[loman4ec]

Who makes your machines? Also how old are the machines? They look a little like Vendo 56's. You mentioned they are from the 80's you all must have used glass bottles longer than the USA as they did not make slant shelf machines in the 80's that I am aware of.

Also here is another way to add round corners to a square machine. It actually looks better in person. Sorry for the bad picture as it is only 1 corner in the pic. A friend of mine did this a long time ago and I was so surprised how good it looked. In person when you first look at the machine it looks like it is a round corner machine but in reality the corners are just painted black to make the illusion of a rounded corner. I just spray painted this on the body of this machine I am working on.

[mznb1u]

Very cool machines and a great idea.  Nice work!

  Tim

[Kimmer]

Thank you everybody.. I did as much as i could myself but regarding paint and fabrication of the "round-top" i had to get help. I have seen many of the car restoration shows and i was wondering why not try that with a boring looking vendingmachine. I think the result came out pretty decent. Maybe i could pas on some ideas to others. The "round-top" consist of 3 pieces of sheet metal (a front, back and middle section), bend 4 places and welded together, that`s it. It completely changed the look of it.
I have got some inquiries on how much they would cost if i was to sell them, to be honest i haven´t got a clue,...yet.
It is a danish company called SCANOMAT who made them at the time. Today they just make coffee machines. It is basically identical with a Vendo inside and outside, maybe they made them on a licence  from Vendo, but i don´t know. We had glas bottles in Danmark until 1995. I found glas bottles in Russia 3 months ago and bought 6 of them.
 


 

[rayg]

Looks really cool,   Thanks for all pictures...........  What size bottles does it dispense?  Can it handle cans as well?    Do you have any other coin operated machine i.e. jukeboxes, pinball machine etc?