Vendo 144

[Kevin C]

Hey Markito

There is a Vendo 144 on Ebay that is pretty close to me here in SC.

7158380086

Will this thing vend 12 Oz beer bottles?

Kevin

[joesquid]

Kevin,
Sorry to say but nope, the vending racks only handle the 8 oz glass bottles.  My Vendo 144E was a cool first restoration, but found out the hard way one of the reasons (other than it being 6.5 feet tall and weighing 450lbs EMPTY!!!) it's not very collectible is due to the limited style of bottles it could vend.  I saw the one you're looking at, looks to be in pretty good shape but is missing the masonite sign over the coin door.

It will vend 10 oz. bottles. I collect the old 10 oz. and then clean, sterilize and then fill them with Coke products. They fit beautifully in the 144 and 216 because that is the size they were made for. But the 12 oz. is too big I think. Sorry. '>

oh, they also hold cans (with adaptors in the chutes).

Here's a photo of my V-216MD (basically same machine as the 144) full of 10 oz. (filled by me) bottles of "Coke" and "Diet Coke" and cans of "Diet Coke with Lime":

[Bob K]

Kito cropped that picture so we couldn't see what he has stacked on top of his machine... '>

Bob, good try, but read 'em and weap!
Mine is just one inch under a hanging cupboard, so that no one can put anything on top of it. Ha!!!!!   '> '>

[joesquid]

Did you have to modify the vending rollers to vend cans?

Not at all. I did nothing with the rollers.
All I had to do was put those metal spacers in the back of the chutes so that the cans would stick out (toward me) as far out as the bottles do. (Does that make any sense?) If you don't have any of those metal spacers, a 2x4 would work too. the spacers happened to be in my machine when I got it.
The cans actually work almost better in the machine than the bottles because the cans are just a little fatter than the bottles, so the bottles sometimes jam, but the cans are too wide to get stuck side by side.
Let me know if you need a photo of the spacers.

[MoonDawg]

Great looking machine Kito.   Like to see how many cans of $1.00 Coke and Diet Coke this machine could sell in a place like Wallmart.
        Good investment

Thanks Glen. That was the first machine I ever bought back in January of this year. I got it for just $150!
I immediately got addicted to this hobby and have bought 6 more machines since then. I pick up my $500 V-110 tomorrow.