Westinghouse BV-56 newbie here.

[Jinx]

 Hello all from S.E. Georgia! I'm a career soldier and teach welding and machine shop to National Guard soldiers.Been lurking for a week or so and now I'm gonn'a pester ya'll!
 Picked up a BV-56 that was living as a fridge in someones shop and I'm on my way to at least getting back up and running. It's been gutted,coin mech gone,all the vend assm gone,and the coin return cup/bezzle and vend lever area bondo'd over. SIGH.  But no rust out.
 Hard to find info on this model of machine but I'm determined to at least make a kick butt Coke "fridge" outt'a it for my man cave/garage.
 Ok, I'm installing a 3n1 on the compressor but need a thermostat now.
 Would like to replace the missing change return and put a lever on it. All non functioning,just cosmetic but I have no idea where to get the parts. All the parts sites have almost nothing for the BV-56. It can't be that ugly that they refuse to make parts for it!
 Any ideas on what would swap/fit.
 Hope to get some pics soon.
 Thanks!

[collecture]

Welcome Jinx,
Yes - the BV-56 is a "hard to find parts for" machine.
The 56 (I think) uses the more common crank handle and not the elongated Westinghouse handle. You can get a repro crank handle from the sponsors or someone here may have an extra. I can't picture the CR cup in my head, but it probably is not too difficult to locate either

[loman4ec]

Yes the crank handle is the exact same as the Vendo 39, vendo 81, 110, 56 jacobs 56 and several others. Go to Funtronics and look in that section for the handle. Can you post a pic of the machine and possibly the coin return hole?

[Jinx]

 Yea!!! I just rigged up the 3n1 and she hummed away, running nice. Think it's low on refridgerant. Got cool but not cold. It has a port already on the line so I figured it would prob need a charge. Just test ran it, still need a thermostat. Prob get a contact style.
 Thanks for the info on the crank handle!