Bcharlton The stainless tray was hand polished with Flitz. The candy holding tray is painted white and I striped the paint off the flaps and chromed them. The inside pic is on Ebay.
Jeff thanks for the compliment. I didn't take the inside grey unit apart and paint it like Curtis did for yours. Yours is much nicer, but thank you for the kind words.
Pat I spent a good day stripping the old lead based hammertone paint off. It's tuff when you don't have a sand blaster. Many days of disassembly and cleaning, polishing, lubing. I even took the back tubes off and dry lubed all the back candy tray holders. I had to take the coin changer apart. Plus the trips to the painter and chrome guy in Addison.
Then last weekend I decided to work on the gum machine. It was rusted so originally I was going to leave it alone and just give it away with the machine, but I took it all apart. Used some Kroil to loosen the rust, sandpaper to remove most of the rust, then engine degreaser to get rid of the Kroil, and finally some dry Teflon lube. It works fine now. I must of spent at least five hours on that alone. I even had the wife go to the glass shop to get that back piece made so it would be complete. I figured it could be a bonus to whoever buys the machine. I couldn't answer the total hours. Too many to count. Cheap labor though...free!
Here's a picture from when I bought it on Ebay five years ago. I just don't like the gum machine attached to the candy machine. Also, there is a picture of the JR.
