Markito's V-110

[joesquid]

Great Job Kito!!  Wish I had a spare $500 laying around, heck I'd loan it to you just so you could close the deal!

`Kito,
great find I hope you`ll get it.  :'>

Quote (joesquid @ May 03 2005,10:49)

Great Job Kito!!  Wish I had a spare $500 laying around, heck I'd loan it to you just so you could close the deal!

Thanks Eric, so nice of you to even think it!
Thanks Lars.

Well it took me a long time, but I finally gathered up enough side cash to pay the $500 for the V-110.
So I called the nice lady and thank goodness she stayed true to her word and it is still mine and for that price.
So tomorrow morning I head out for the 6 hour (3 each way) road trip to bring it home. I'm very excited. Now I need to clear more space in the garage for it.

I'll post pics, etc. in the next 24 hours or so. Thanks for everyone's interest.

Well I picked up the V-110 a week ago and it is in pretty darn good shape. Everything on the interior is there including the shelves (thank goodness) and it still has the original key! But here's the thing. I think the coin mech is inside the coin door, but I don't know for sure because I don't know how to open the coin door.

The key unlocks the door, but since it has the lever coming out of it, I can't open the door because the lever prevents it from opening. Can you tell this is my first model with a lever? '>

So what do I do to the lever so that I can open the coin door?

I will write more about the machine and post pics sometime in the next few days.

Thanks!

[Ltransam]

Hey,Kito
           You have to push the lever counter - clockwise .You'll here a snap when you force it .Then it will lock back in when you bring it back around
                                                  Leonard

[Ltransam]

Are was it clockwise:p  eatherway it should break loose untill you return it to orginal possion

[Eric]

Yeah turn it counter clockwise....
And congrats! And on my birthday too! Good to see someone got a machine on my birthday
(Wife said the 56 was my early birthday present... and anniversary present.... and Christmas present.... and..... Ahhhh you get the idea.... Anyway way to score!
And lets see some pics!!!!!!!!!!!

Eric

Thanks Leonard and Eric! I thought that might be what I should do, but after initially pushing it very lightly counter-clockwise (way too lightly, because I didn't want to break any great original parts) I thought I should wait and ask the group here. So after your good advice, I gave it a good hearty push and that did the trick.

Inside I found a nice original coin mech, three nickels from the early sixties and a bunch of bottlecaps.

Thanks so much. Happy birthday Eric!

[Eric]

Ain't that cool?..... Are any of the caps cork lined and good enough to keep?
 I had 2 Mercury head dimes stuck in a old rough 27... cool extras!

And thanks.... I'm 40!..... Wow!.... where did the 30s go?..........

Eric

[sodaworks]

Eric happy birthday buddy, your wife is right, your present came early..