My new toy.

[shardian]

At least don't point to personal grooming stuff.  I mean damn, do you want her to start being all slobby and hairy?  You have to point to the stupid things.  Like driving into poles and costing four figure bodyshop jobs.

I don't have any of those to point at luckily.

[ChadTower]

I have multiple instances to point at plus the Thunderbird she totalled entirely while I was unemployed.

[shardian]

Two words for you: BUS PASS 

[ChadTower]

Seriously.  She has paid pretty dearly for the Thunderbird, though, her injuries were bad and she will have arthritis in her hip and back forever.  So I just point to the other stuff like driving into the control box at the car wash.  We could have bought a nice DMD pin for that money.

[shardian]

dang this thing has been cluttering my garage for a long time now! I have been clearing out the garage, and last night I decided to try plugging this in again. I unplugged the compressor, and plugged the cord in. Nothing.

I then plugged the compressor back in and fired her up. It did something! The circulating fan was running in the back. I hit the coin dispense switch, and it spun. Extra sweet! The coin mech was all screwed up, but after tinkering/disassembling it, I got access to the nickel switch. 10 credits later, 3 out of 5 buttons dispensed pop (if pop would have been in there).

The bad: Compressor never kicked on (no surprise), coin mech needs disassembled and rebuilt, no lights came on, several selections did not vend, but that may be due to the fact there is no product in the machine. In theory, non of the selections should have dispensed I would think. I let the machine run for about 20 minutes. I fiddled with the cooling control to either fire up the compressor or kick the breaker, and the machine tripped off. It didn't kick my breaker or anything, but the machine now won't fire up. I guess there is a fuse or breaker somewhere on it I need to find.

 Either way, there are lots of issues with the machine. I would say I was ripped off by getting it, but it was free. I was just an easy mark to unload it on I guess.


I am going to list this for sale cheap (now that is pseudo works) and try to get rid of it in the next few weeks.

[Level42]

What a waste . You could have put an arcade machine where that thing is going to be.





Looks great, I'd have one if I had the space. I hope you'll restore it like that one on the picture, looks very nice. I actually think it's a nice thing to see a more "modern" (rectangular) looking one. "Everybody" has those Coca Cola red one's with rounds all over.....this is more special

[shardian]

What a waste . You could have put an arcade machine where that thing is going to be.





Looks great, I'd have one if I had the space. I hope you'll restore it like that one on the picture, looks very nice. I actually think it's a nice thing to see a more "modern" (rectangular) looking one. "Everybody" has those Coca Cola red one's with rounds all over.....this is more special

Well it's days are hopefully numbered. I might tinker with it a bit more, but without complete technical manuals I don't think I'll get it back to 100% myself. I listed it on craigslist just now.

[shardian]

HAd a guy who was gonna come buy this today, so I spent some time tinkering with it to make sure it worked. I figured out alot of how it works - which is pretty neat. The coin mech is temperamental with nickels.

THe guy ended up canceling after he analyzed his garage for space. That sucks, but I do feel more confident now that I could restore this thing...but it just doesn't fit into my plans anymore I think.