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« on: April 19, 2006, 02:55:23 pm »

My brother was on a job site, and there was this old coke fountain in the basement of an old hotel. He passed it for 3 days, then finally brought it home. It really needs a good cleaning, and I don't know if I would ever drink out of it, but its still pretty cool. There is one crack on the bottom of it, and the lid has a piece broken on it. A very thorough cleaning would make this a neat piece to sit on a table somewhere...
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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2006, 02:58:31 pm »

Here is a pic of the crack on the bottom. I imagine this could be repaired....
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2006, 03:40:04 pm »

Yea, that would look cool just sitting on a bar!
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2006, 04:30:45 pm »

Nice score!! Make a cool keg box taper.
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2006, 09:30:26 pm »

Great Score! Get some type of an epoxy to control the cracked lid and that lower damage... a little sanding and touch up paint to hide the epoxy, little elbow grease
and you're done! You've got a great little dispenser!
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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2006, 07:13:54 pm »

Well, I gave it a bath tonite... it cleaned up pretty well. The pictures will not look that much different, but here are a few...

I am trying to figure out how to remove the front and rear panels to try to clean the gold area... I haven't tried too hard to remove them, but a quick look turned up nothing.. Any ideas???
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« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2006, 07:45:33 pm »

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The dispenser was not designed to come apart for cleaning. I have a few of these and am planning at some point to try and take one apart and see if it can be put back together. If you want to try I do know that the place to start is the metal strip on top of that panel. I have one dispenser that someone had removed that part. From there I am not sure. The front clear panel I am guessing either slides into place or it might be held in place by the chrome molding. Good luck,
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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2006, 08:44:39 pm »

Thanks Steve... Wow..you sure have one heck of a collection of dispensers.. Very cool site. Do you them all displayed???

I don't know if I am going to get into a full teardown at this point. I thought it may have come out easily for cleaning. I need to get my Nehi and VMC done plus a few house projects before this one... I think I am going to clamp it to my workbench for now '<img'>
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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2006, 10:54:19 pm »

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 I don’t have the room the display them all unfortunately. I have knock out a few of my “honey do” projects though and I might start working on a display cabinet for the garage soon. With 40+ dispensers now it will be hard to pick 10 to 12 that would fit nicely in the garage though.
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