Vendo 63

[Jim]

Looks good!
The condensor compartment cleaned up nice!

[Kevin C]

Hello

Here is a picture of the old condensing coil shroud. The condensing coil is the lower coil near the compressor. The shroud forces the outside air that is pulled in by the fan motor to move across the coil from the front of the machine towards the back of the machine. On the inside of my door there is a section of cardboard covering about a third of the vented/open area that forces the outside air to enter the case in the area of the condensing coil.

Now do get confused with the the evaporator coil.  The evaporator coil inside the refrigerated compartment that holds the drinks.

Kevin

[Kevin C]

Hello

Here is the new shroud that I made out of heavy cardboard from an old calender. I traced, cut out, folded, test fitted & then painted.

The wiring harness from the soda-jerks arrived so I can now start progress towards getting my machine into operation.

Kevin

[Jim]

Kevin,

For the future, you can visit your local craft store and purchase black craft board and fabricate the shroud(s) from this material... It's almost identical to the non-textured(smooth) cardboard shrouds.

[Kevin C]

Hello

Here is the before of the lower coil.

Kevin

[Kevin C]

Hello

Here is the lower coil after cleaning, with the new shroud & painting black to match the orginal look.

Kevin

[Kevin C]

Hello

Any ideas on locating the proper condensation drain pan for my Vendo 63? Well until I find the proper pan I will just get one from an old refrigerator.

I plan on getting it back together this week and loaded with adult beaverages for the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Plus I have to go pick up my second Vendo 63 this week. Once you buy one of these things then all your friends want one.

Kevin

[glassbottlesrule]

Watch it, these things are addictive.  Just wanted one"for the basement"  Six months after the first machine I've aquired four others and seems like more are coming out of the woodwork every day.

I second that thought. I can't drive down a country road without noticing someone with two Coke select-o-matics laying outside in someone's yard. By-the-way, still trying to catch up with the owner on what he plans to do with them.

Thanks for taking time to load the pictures and explain a little about the cooling system. I think that 63 was in pretty good shape.

[Pat Pixley]

good work on that shroud And a good looking machine
There right these thing are addictive. I bought my first one in 1996 and have not looked back.  Keep up the good
work.

Pat
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