long before you were born, 1980 or so, i was 9, my Father was a Fireman and had this exact same machine at his fire station. i loved going and getting a Coke on it, 35 cents, and a 12 oz glass bottle coke was pulled through behind the glass door. wooden Coca Cola boxes trays were next to it, for when you were done drinking you put the glass bottle in the wood box tray and the coke delivery man would pick them up and they would reuse them, believe it or not. Very cool memory for me. thanks for posting. Nice fix too!!
I was born in 1980, lol. We had one exactly like this in our courthouse till sometime in the 90s. They swapped to cans because they became easier to get. My cousin has it now in his shop for a beer fridge, still working fine. Funny enough I'm a firefighter.
I was born in 1980, lol. We had one exactly like this in our courthouse till sometime in the 90s. They swapped to cans because they became easier to get. My cousin has it now in his shop for a beer fridge, still working fine. Funny enough I'm a firefighter.
I was born in 1980, lol. We had one exactly like this in our courthouse till sometime in the 90s. They swapped to cans because they became easier to get. My cousin has it now in his shop for a beer fridge, still working fine. Funny enough I'm a firefighter.
The fact that you are able to work on things around your daughter shows what restraint you have. If you were like me, this would turn into a vocab lesson for her.
I have a machine exactly like yours. It's been completely reliable after being cleaned and gone over. I enjoyed watching you sort yours out. BTW, your little "helper" is totally adorable... The 'potty' break inquiry was awesome... the joys of parenthood.
I remember these machines. Great job figuring out how things work and how to fix it. Loved your video. The drip cup serves two purposes. 1. Keep mice out. 2 keep the cold in.
Most "Coke" items are highly collectible, especially the vending machines. However, one vending machine is not equal to another. This seems like a mid 60's machine, whereas the 50's Vendolater machines are the hottest sellers. FYI they still sell glass Coke bottles that will fit the machine. Great job fixing this beauty. 🙂
I have an old Coke bottle machine from the 50's and works like a champ! Just stumbled across this, and I"m from Rochester MN, I used to be a service tech in Faribault! Looking forward of watchig your channel!
Good job saving some history. Def had to be a wiring issue. Couple things 1. When taking any ohm reading you should measure like you did for voltage and not touch the wires with your fingers bc of the moisture/conductivity of your skin you can get a false reading. 2. You call the grooved wire earth or ground it’s actually neutral even tho it can be the same as earth ground in the service panel. Compressor windings have a low ohm reading. The cord looked like a 2 wire cord if it was then the ground ring was connected to the hot side bc you removed the ground and it didn’t trip the breaker(could be wrong about the 2wire). I’m an hvac tech this is technically like an ac. Your troubleshooting was correct isolated components. Again great job saving history.
One of the problems with old wiring was why we developed a 3 prong plug. Often in old electric things the metal of the machine was also grounded to the neutral. So if you accidently reversed the hot and neutral, you would have a live metal chassis. So if one of the fans was wired backwards, it would short hot to neutral, providing one of the others was bounded to the metal. People used to be electrocuted by TV's by plugging to polarized plug in wrong.The cup thing is a attempt at a one way valve.Prevent bugs and other things from going in. And to keep cold air in. Eventually the started to dump water in a pan on top of compressor. The hot compresor would be cooled by water and water would be boiled of.
The Bulb behind the coin slot looks to be a C7 bulb. Now they are sold as 7W / 120V bulbs. used to be common in 14W versions, but due to heat, and cost, they are all gone. most hardware stores still stock them as they are used in older night lights.
Later iterations had a latch that prevented you from opening the glass door unless you paid. People were popping the bottle caps in situ and letting the soda pour into a dixie cup.
I enjoyed your video very much. I too have been a user of this exact machine. It was 10 cents then as well. I'm a little ashamed to say it be we had a way to cheat those machines. We would bring a cup with us to the machine and a bottle opener. We'd move the bottle as far forward as possible then hold the cup under the bottle, open it with the opener and allow the soda to pour into our cup. I was born in 1955 so, I was probably around 8 or 9 at the time. Thanks for the video.
I have actually seen that style machine all the way up to and well into the 80s, I worked as a Mechanic in the 80s and I remember we had that same machine in our shop waiting area, and I know my Boss said when he bought the shop it came with the place, and I know the shop was built in the 50s, so it could have very well been installed in the shop sometime in the 60s, This was a great video, very interesting, and you got the machine to work once again, that in itself is impressive .
I bought a very similar vendorlator 7-up machine at a swap meet for $20 when I was in college in the early 80s. It was left behind when the seller bought a motel. It had no key, but the refrigerator worked. It wouldn’t accept any coins. We loaded it into a Ford Escort hatchback and had 3 adults also in that car to haul it away. - tight fit! Once home, I was able to bust out the tumblers in the lock in about 30 seconds due to the skills learned as a misguided youth. I found that someone dropped in a Canadian quarter into the machine and it was lodged in the coin acceptor. Removing it, there was all kinds of money in the cash box and coin chute, easily more than the $20 i spent on the machine. I kept beer in it, 15 cents to dispense a bottle and it’d make change if you used a quarter. I still have that machine now, some 40 years later and it runs as well now as after I repaired it when I originally bought it.
Considering the Condensate Drip Cup's location, and the location of the 'new' splices, tells me prior to the 'repair' if the unit was in use the Drip Cup dumped a load of chilled Condensate right on top of the NON-WATER TIGHT SPLICE. You need a WATER TIGHT SPLICE or, a WATER TIGHT WORK BOX FOR SPLICES. Wago has a few, but using Environmental Splices, that is one crimp connector and one heat shrinkable sleeve with heat set sealant works and for us Air Navy types the only thing we can use.
Wow, I remember in the early 60s our corner store replaced the old 5¢ round Coke machine with that exact same “modern” machine and raised the price to 10¢ 😢 lol Thanks for bringing back a memory of the good old days of my childhood. I wood pick up a couple of discarded 2¢ deposit Coke bottles and trade them in for an ice cold Coke on a hot summer day!😅
That Compressor was built before the whole 'One Generation and DONE' disposable madness started. So, Compressors from 1980s and earlier ARE REBUILDABLE........but the places that rebuild them are fading away. You can buy and install a used or new Compressor and the machine will still work.
That is the world we used to have- 60 years old, and it's still a viable machine! That was from when Coke was actually good! It came in glass bottles and was made with real sugar instead of HFCS...and it would be really cold when ya pulled one out of the machine! Man, what we have lost!
We had a Coke machine similar to that in our body shop. Ours was built in the '80s but it could dispense bottles or cans. Glad that you got the machine going but I have to know who your supervisor is because she is adorable!!
When I was young, me and my mom lived in a small town in Nebraska. I was a devious little monster and the little store in town had one of these machines. You didn't need two dimes to get a soda. All you needed was a cup and a church key bottle opener. Hold your cup up to the bottle cap and pop it off. The cap would come off and the soda would fill your cup. If you grabbed the cap and flattened it out you could smash it back onto the bottle. The bottom two bottles were best bc nobody would give them a second look if the top bottles were full. The store owner got wise to my little caper and switched to the top load fridge. It worked the same as this one does except you pull the bottle up through the mechanism that holds the bottles in..... soon I discovered all I needed was a double straw stuck together end to end. Like a telescope. And my trusty church key.... now I'm 53 and I drink Pepsi. I still think back to my younger self's shenanigans and smile. I mustve gotten a whoopin' once a week? Hahaha... stay tuned for how I figured out how to get quarters out of the pool table at the little bar/restaurant where my mom worked...I think I made more money than she did?
Actually those older ones work better. The issue with them is the refrigerant in them was worse for the environment. As long as you can keep the r12 from leaking it will run till the bearings go out. The biggest issue is the metal line corrode from the outside and the refrigerant leaks out. The refrigerant has oil in it to lube and help cool the compressor. The compressor runs dry, overheats, and locks up.
As a little kid in the 70s I remember running into these machines usually at random old gas stations on family road trips. They were old and beat up even then. I hated them cuz they ALWAYS ate my coins. I'd plunk the quarters in and yank on the bottle and it seemed to never unlock no matter how hard I yanked.
Very interesting machine!! Im impressed with all the mechanical parts. Great job fixing it! Its neat to see your daughter helping you. I have a 5 year old son and he loves helping me, sometimes he slows me down a bit lol
Yeah having a little helper with you is awesome, even if it slows you down some. I am truly so blessed by God, and love being a dad. It's definitely something to cherish, and be proud of even if the culture thinks otherwise.
Awww Daddys little helper is adorable. And great job fixing that machine. I'm 62 and remember these machines. Also remember a western auto store had a chest type were you had to turn a know to slide the bottle out .
Generally the evaporator fan runs when the compressor runs. That cup keeps the fridge compartment sealed from critters, and it keeps the heat from the condenser outside. I have a machine a few years newer that was converted to cans before i got it. Mine takes any change you give it but only gives nickels back
The weighted trap door cup for the Condensate is to keep out pests. At one time they just used a drain line and bad things happened. Ever open one of those doors to be greeted by a swarm of BEES hiding in the machine? or worse, FIRE ANTS. With that machine's basic thermostat you can set it so low that the soda or water freezes and blows the cap off resulting in a soda machine coated in sticky sugar laden soda.....which, attracts BEES, FIRE ANTS and COCKROACHES! On the one hand, "AAAAHHHEEEEEE RUNAWAY RUNAWAY!" and on the other "EEEEWWWWWW, its infected with ROACHES!" so eventually they used a weighted cup that dumped Condensate out when needed and was sealed other wise, this also conserved the chill.
You’ve discovered the solution to the old, “they just don’t make them like they used to” adage. As soon as the public swallowed that line of bullshit, the manufacturers were free to make throwaway components. If those things are repaired, which takes a little time & effort, as you’ve discovered, great things work again. Thumbing your nose at the discarded. Good for you and your little assistant!
Saw the Coke machine I had in Texas in the late 70's. Watched the complete job. It was like watching Star Wars "The Phantom Menace". ..... Would have been better if you edited out the tiny blond Jar Jar Binks!
*_Greaseballs used to carry a bottle opener and a collapsible camping cup in their hip pocket. When nobody was looking they'd pop a top and hold the cup under the bottle still in the rack. The curvy girl design of the bottle would only allow 1/2 of the contents to empty but they could go right down the stack until they got a full drink. Some carried a punch instead of an opener. With vertical office-style machines a straw would .. get it all._** hahaha LOL*
I suspect what the other guy did was wire the switch contacts of the thermostat directly across the incoming hot and cold, hence the dead short. Wire nuts aren't the best and insulation tape just gets sticky and falls off eventually. Wago connectors are better but as you mentioned a junction box is the way to go. Anyway a big thumbs up for the video. Love the old Coke machines.
You're correct, when you inserted the money it unlocked the entire rack, but as soon as you made a choice, it would re-lock the rack. Bedsides Coke, you might find 7UP or A&W Root Beer being vended out of a given machine like that one. I'm 60, and my great uncle owned a mechanic's garage and had pretty much that same machine in there for years. I seem to recall the price then was 25 cents.
Back in the late 70s, early 80s, my grandfather used to have one of these in the back hallway of a store he owned in Lebanon, Oregon. It was pretty old even then. It used small 12oz(?) bottles.
I'm forty years old... maybe three summers back we drove to Louisiana and saw one of these machines. I ended up getting a picture of me using it because I've never seen one like that before. LOL.
That machine is probably from the mid to late 50's, before cans became popular. I had a few machines like that in the 80's. The next generation held cans and had a can pierce/opener that was built into the front (pre pull tabs). Now those machines are collector items, not usable to actually sell soda because they cant be converted to accept dollar bills.
When I was a kid, the girl 2 doors over, her Dad was an HVAC tech. (This story is from about 1978) He acquired what had been a "dead" (non-cooling) Coke vending machine about 1 generation behind the one shown here. As far as I remember, it was still priced at 10 cents, and the dispensing mechanism still worked, but he fixed up the compressor and got it cooling properly again, parked it in the garage, and made it his beer cooler. I seldom had change in my pockets at that age, but one day I had or found a dime, dropped it in the slot, and it stopped in the mechanism, because her Dad had disabled it with something stopping up the coin accepter mechanism. He simply opened up the machine, which no longer locked, and either loaded up fresh beer, or grabbed out cold ones. As time went along, he learned to keep track of how many beer roughly were in the machine, because during the weekdays while he was at work, the neighborhood teens were finding ways to... uh, keep hydrated in the summer heat. He was a decent guy though, was calm and kind like my own Dad was. He liked the neighborhood kids as though they were his own, but you knew not to cross the line when he was around. Wherever you are now, Don R., you were a touch of class in an otherwise boring neighborhood. And a stand-up member of society. Your daughter, however, turned out to be a tease and a (something else that rhymes with "strut"). And I would bet that if Don is still around, and still drinks beer, he keeps it cold in that same old Coke machine.
That drain cup appears to be super clever. I suspect it is supposed to work like a "drinking bird": the cup stays up until it fills, then it momentarily rotates down and dumps the water, then closes again.
A friend of mine has a motorcycle shop that has a vintage Coke machine like this. The refrigerant system failed and they retired it to the storage room. I’d love to restore it.
The young adults cant even dream how good them times where, Changing of the guard led to the destroying of this place go back to those times before its to late.... i loved those machines used them daily.
Is the drip cup thing just a method of keeping the air from exchanging to the outside? Almost like a P or S trap in plumbing, I remember a video you mentioned this on larger commercial units on the roof.. Not sure why else it might be there
@@spencerd8201 hey now! Scrap is rare and desirable too! 😉 I suppose perhaps I'm just a little less sentimental than others. I shall spare it from the scrap pile.
@@ReubenSahlstrom Water proof that splicing by the drip cup, lube up the drip cup, wax the body, clean out the mold & replace the burned out bulb & enjoy your Coke machine for years to come. Just a thought. Pleasure to see you fixed it & it can be used again. Enjoy your handiworks delights on a hot summers day!
The reason its rejecting your dimes is because they are a different weight. I have one of these, and it does the same thing. I save old coins from the 90s and older just for this. Also the weird incandecent is just a christmas tree light bulb. Theyre very common. I think its a c7
I had one of those I bought in the 90s at a garage sale for $40, they did not have the key and when I got it home I drilled out the lock and found $75 in pre-64 silver coins. I sold the machine for $1600 in 2015. The face place where it lights up on mine said have a Coke and a smile
It looks like there is a lip on the bottom to hold a container underneath that condensate drain, presumably it would be emptied when the machine was replenished.
@@eastcoastwatch672 I forgot Red!?? Christmas tree and Bumble Bee for hooking up inside wire. His wiring polarity was probably backwards. Turned it back correctly.....Magic!
Those old Coca-Cola machines were made very well and they can be restored to their original condition which should command a very high price if you sell it.
I have one just like it, 1967. I used to keep it filled, (any long neck bottle will work in these). This one has nice paint job and really good condition, now you've sorted out wiring. I know the smell you're referring to, were you able to remedy that? Because i haven't and I've tried everything in last 30 yrs. Edit to add: I'm not understanding comments saying to "restore". This is the exact condition ppl and collectors are looking for, good and original condition. A little turtle wax or other car wax is all that's needed.
Yeah I think the all original look is nice. I get that some people like to sandblast and repaint everything, but to me it takes away from the antique vibe and stories it tells.
That type coke machine was the more annoying ones to us kids about 1967 or so. We liked the self dispensing ones you didn't have to pull. There were some horizontal ones also.
@JaimeGarciaX or 409a. That's what we usually drop in for an r12 replacement. I have worked on some r414b systems that I think were r12 originally too.
When I was a kid I remember outside the firehouse in my city they had one of these. I remember going there and buying a Coke and drinking it sitting in front of the firehouse. I don't know if the firehouse owned it or the City or if a vending company owned it. But I think it was 15 cents It wasn't 25 It wasn't 10 cents Pretty sure it was 15 cents I remember the bottles were small 10 ounce maybe I remember seeing the Pepsi 16 ounce glass bottles in the convenience store. They were 25 cents. I used to get a donut and a bottle of Pepsi at the Local Food Mart across the street from my apartment on my way to school. I would have a donut and soda most mornings. I remember school lunch Dinner was never great I wish I could have had a good breakfast but I was lucky I could get the donut and soda 😢
My wife is co-owner of a barber shop and they have a machine just like that. They never use it because it is hard to find the bottled soda these days and it uses too much electricity...
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long before you were born, 1980 or so, i was 9, my Father was a Fireman and had this exact same machine at his fire station. i loved going and getting a Coke on it, 35 cents, and a 12 oz glass bottle coke was pulled through behind the glass door. wooden Coca Cola boxes trays were next to it, for when you were done drinking you put the glass bottle in the wood box tray and the coke delivery man would pick them up and they would reuse them, believe it or not. Very cool memory for me. thanks for posting. Nice fix too!!
I was born in 1980, lol. We had one exactly like this in our courthouse till sometime in the 90s. They swapped to cans because they became easier to get. My cousin has it now in his shop for a beer fridge, still working fine.
Funny enough I'm a firefighter.
I was born in 1980, lol. We had one exactly like this in our courthouse till sometime in the 90s. They swapped to cans because they became easier to get. My cousin has it now in his shop for a beer fridge, still working fine.
Funny enough I'm a firefighter.
I was born in 1980, lol. We had one exactly like this in our courthouse till sometime in the 90s. They swapped to cans because they became easier to get. My cousin has it now in his shop for a beer fridge, still working fine.
Funny enough I'm a firefighter.
I wonder if they designed the bottle for the machines or the machine for the bottles.
@@user-neo71665 omg a beer fridge what a cool idea. im geeting one!!!
The fact that you are able to work on things around your daughter shows what restraint you have. If you were like me, this would turn into a vocab lesson for her.
I admire the way you are with your daughter. My son is 31 now and is my rock. Keep
it up for all your sakes.
I'm subbing just because he treats his daughter right lol
I have a machine exactly like yours. It's been completely reliable after being cleaned and gone over. I enjoyed watching you sort yours out. BTW, your little "helper" is totally adorable... The 'potty' break inquiry was awesome... the joys of parenthood.
I remember these machines. Great job figuring out how things work and how to fix it. Loved your video. The drip cup serves two purposes. 1. Keep mice out. 2 keep the cold in.
Most "Coke" items are highly collectible, especially the vending machines. However, one vending machine is not equal to another. This seems like a mid 60's machine, whereas the 50's Vendolater machines are the hottest sellers. FYI they still sell glass Coke bottles that will fit the machine. Great job fixing this beauty. 🙂
I have an old Coke bottle machine from the 50's and works like a champ! Just stumbled across this, and I"m from Rochester MN, I used to be a service tech in Faribault! Looking forward of watchig your channel!
Good job saving some history. Def had to be a wiring issue. Couple things 1. When taking any ohm reading you should measure like you did for voltage and not touch the wires with your fingers bc of the moisture/conductivity of your skin you can get a false reading. 2. You call the grooved wire earth or ground it’s actually neutral even tho it can be the same as earth ground in the service panel. Compressor windings have a low ohm reading. The cord looked like a 2 wire cord if it was then the ground ring was connected to the hot side bc you removed the ground and it didn’t trip the breaker(could be wrong about the 2wire). I’m an hvac tech this is technically like an ac. Your troubleshooting was correct isolated components. Again great job saving history.
One of the problems with old wiring was why we developed a 3 prong plug. Often in old electric things the metal of the machine was also grounded to the neutral. So if you accidently reversed the hot and neutral, you would have a live metal chassis. So if one of the fans was wired backwards, it would short hot to neutral, providing one of the others was bounded to the metal. People used to be electrocuted by TV's by plugging to polarized plug in wrong.The cup thing is a attempt at a one way valve.Prevent bugs and other things from going in. And to keep cold air in. Eventually the started to dump water in a pan on top of compressor. The hot compresor would be cooled by water and water would be boiled of.
Great job! You're very good at figuring things out. Those machines, especially in running condition, are very collectable.
The Bulb behind the coin slot looks to be a C7 bulb. Now they are sold as 7W / 120V bulbs. used to be common in 14W versions, but due to heat, and cost, they are all gone. most hardware stores still stock them as they are used in older night lights.
Walmart carries them in the four pack
They also make them in leds as well , less heat , wattage and little briter.
Way cool Reuben, and your daughter is way too cute! Thank you
Suggestion, get to the fans and any moving motors and get a drop of oil on their shafts. They are probably dried out.
Later iterations had a latch that prevented you from opening the glass door unless you paid. People were popping the bottle caps in situ and letting the soda pour into a dixie cup.
I enjoyed your video very much. I too have been a user of this exact machine. It was 10 cents then as well. I'm a little ashamed to say it be we had a way to cheat those machines. We would bring a cup with us to the machine and a bottle opener. We'd move the bottle as far forward as possible then hold the cup under the bottle, open it with the opener and allow the soda to pour into our cup. I was born in 1955 so, I was probably around 8 or 9 at the time. Thanks for the video.
I have actually seen that style machine all the way up to and well into the 80s, I worked as a Mechanic in the 80s and I remember we had that same machine in our shop waiting area, and I know my Boss said when he bought the shop it came with the place, and I know the shop was built in the 50s, so it could have very well been installed in the shop sometime in the 60s, This was a great video, very interesting, and you got the machine to work once again, that in itself is impressive .
your gopher took a cookie break right in the middle of a repair job.. its all good.
Your assistant is adorable. That compressor is probably inefficient as hell, but it probably will last forever, unlike the stuff they make today.
I bought a very similar vendorlator 7-up machine at a swap meet for $20 when I was in college in the early 80s. It was left behind when the seller bought a motel. It had no key, but the refrigerator worked. It wouldn’t accept any coins. We loaded it into a Ford Escort hatchback and had 3 adults also in that car to haul it away. - tight fit! Once home, I was able to bust out the tumblers in the lock in about 30 seconds due to the skills learned as a misguided youth. I found that someone dropped in a Canadian quarter into the machine and it was lodged in the coin acceptor. Removing it, there was all kinds of money in the cash box and coin chute, easily more than the $20 i spent on the machine. I kept beer in it, 15 cents to dispense a bottle and it’d make change if you used a quarter. I still have that machine now, some 40 years later and it runs as well now as after I repaired it when I originally bought it.
Wow! It's cool that people like these machines enough to keep em around.
Considering the Condensate Drip Cup's location, and the location of the 'new' splices, tells me prior to the 'repair' if the unit was in use the Drip Cup dumped a load of chilled Condensate right on top of the NON-WATER TIGHT SPLICE. You need a WATER TIGHT SPLICE or, a WATER TIGHT WORK BOX FOR SPLICES. Wago has a few, but using Environmental Splices, that is one crimp connector and one heat shrinkable sleeve with heat set sealant works and for us Air Navy types the only thing we can use.
I had one like this many years ago. Like a fool I sold it, it worked great and even made change.
Wow, I remember in the early 60s our corner store replaced the old 5¢ round Coke machine with that exact same “modern” machine and raised the price to 10¢ 😢 lol
Thanks for bringing back a memory of the good old days of my childhood. I wood pick up a couple of discarded 2¢ deposit Coke bottles and trade them in for an ice cold Coke on a hot summer day!😅
That Compressor was built before the whole 'One Generation and DONE' disposable madness started. So, Compressors from 1980s and earlier ARE REBUILDABLE........but the places that rebuild them are fading away. You can buy and install a used or new Compressor and the machine will still work.
That is the world we used to have- 60 years old, and it's still a viable machine! That was from when Coke was actually good! It came in glass bottles and was made with real sugar instead of HFCS...and it would be really cold when ya pulled one out of the machine! Man, what we have lost!
Very nice slant shelf Cavalier, I have several. I like this Era (60-70s) machines better than the round top styles.
We had a Coke machine similar to that in our body shop. Ours was built in the '80s but it could dispense bottles or cans. Glad that you got the machine going but I have to know who your supervisor is because she is adorable!!
When I was young, me and my mom lived in a small town in Nebraska. I was a devious little monster and the little store in town had one of these machines. You didn't need two dimes to get a soda. All you needed was a cup and a church key bottle opener. Hold your cup up to the bottle cap and pop it off. The cap would come off and the soda would fill your cup. If you grabbed the cap and flattened it out you could smash it back onto the bottle. The bottom two bottles were best bc nobody would give them a second look if the top bottles were full.
The store owner got wise to my little caper and switched to the top load fridge. It worked the same as this one does except you pull the bottle up through the mechanism that holds the bottles in..... soon I discovered all I needed was a double straw stuck together end to end. Like a telescope. And my trusty church key.... now I'm 53 and I drink Pepsi. I still think back to my younger self's shenanigans and smile. I mustve gotten a whoopin' once a week? Hahaha... stay tuned for how I figured out how to get quarters out of the pool table at the little bar/restaurant where my mom worked...I think I made more money than she did?
I grew up in the 60's and early 70's in Australia, vending machines like that were everywhere. So very cool.
Pretty cool. I'm sure it's not the most efficient cooler ever but it would still be a neat thing to have and keep stocked. Thanks for sharing.
Actually those older ones work better. The issue with them is the refrigerant in them was worse for the environment.
As long as you can keep the r12 from leaking it will run till the bearings go out. The biggest issue is the metal line corrode from the outside and the refrigerant leaks out. The refrigerant has oil in it to lube and help cool the compressor. The compressor runs dry, overheats, and locks up.
As a little kid in the 70s I remember running into these machines usually at random old gas stations on family road trips. They were old and beat up even then. I hated them cuz they ALWAYS ate my coins. I'd plunk the quarters in and yank on the bottle and it seemed to never unlock no matter how hard I yanked.
You have the most adorable little helper
Very interesting machine!! Im impressed with all the mechanical parts. Great job fixing it! Its neat to see your daughter helping you. I have a 5 year old son and he loves helping me, sometimes he slows me down a bit lol
Yeah having a little helper with you is awesome, even if it slows you down some. I am truly so blessed by God, and love being a dad. It's definitely something to cherish, and be proud of even if the culture thinks otherwise.
@ReubenSahlstrom yes children are a blessing! I'm blessed with a 7 year old daughter and 5 year old son.
God bless you and your family!!
Awww Daddys little helper is adorable. And great job fixing that machine. I'm 62 and remember these machines. Also remember a western auto store had a chest type were you had to turn a know to slide the bottle out .
@@ReubenSahlstrom Treat her well and she’ll pick you out a good nursing home and if you treat her really well she’ll bring Depends 😜🤔😝😁
That's cool. We have one about like that. Ours has seven selections of the small or larger bottles. Been in storage building for over 20 years
Generally the evaporator fan runs when the compressor runs.
That cup keeps the fridge compartment sealed from critters, and it keeps the heat from the condenser outside. I have a machine a few years newer that was converted to cans before i got it.
Mine takes any change you give it but only gives nickels back
Great memories in the 70’s as a kid. A hot summer day pulling out a very cold bottle of coke a cola. It will be an easy sell in running condition.
Relics of a time past when things were simple. There were no convenience stores back in that era.
I always thought that making a vintage vending machine fleet would be really cool.
The weighted trap door cup for the Condensate is to keep out pests. At one time they just used a drain line and bad things happened. Ever open one of those doors to be greeted by a swarm of BEES hiding in the machine? or worse, FIRE ANTS. With that machine's basic thermostat you can set it so low that the soda or water freezes and blows the cap off resulting in a soda machine coated in sticky sugar laden soda.....which, attracts BEES, FIRE ANTS and COCKROACHES! On the one hand, "AAAAHHHEEEEEE RUNAWAY RUNAWAY!" and on the other "EEEEWWWWWW, its infected with ROACHES!" so eventually they used a weighted cup that dumped Condensate out when needed and was sealed other wise, this also conserved the chill.
You’ve discovered the solution to the old, “they just don’t make them like they used to” adage. As soon as the public swallowed that line of bullshit, the manufacturers were free to make throwaway components. If those things are repaired, which takes a little time & effort, as you’ve discovered, great things work again. Thumbing your nose at the discarded. Good for you and your little assistant!
This seems like a video the algorithm would do good things with... I guess we'll see. Neat video!
Good to see you fixing up the old relics 😆
Worked at Cavalier in Chattanooga for 10 years good machines
Saw the Coke machine I had in Texas in the late 70's. Watched the complete job. It was like watching Star Wars "The Phantom Menace". ..... Would have been better if you edited out the tiny blond Jar Jar Binks!
*_Greaseballs used to carry a bottle opener and a collapsible camping cup in their hip pocket. When nobody was looking they'd pop a top and hold the cup under the bottle still in the rack. The curvy girl design of the bottle would only allow 1/2 of the contents to empty but they could go right down the stack until they got a full drink. Some carried a punch instead of an opener. With vertical office-style machines a straw would .. get it all._** hahaha LOL*
I suspect what the other guy did was wire the switch contacts of the thermostat directly across the incoming hot and cold, hence the dead short. Wire nuts aren't the best and insulation tape just gets sticky and falls off eventually. Wago connectors are better but as you mentioned a junction box is the way to go.
Anyway a big thumbs up for the video. Love the old Coke machines.
The reason it was tripping the breaker was because he had the neutral tied into the hot and you're correct, the thermostat was tripping the breaker.
He had treated the thermostat wires as hot and neutral like a device instead of like a switch (hot in, hot out)
You're correct, when you inserted the money it unlocked the entire rack, but as soon as you made a choice, it would re-lock the rack. Bedsides Coke, you might find 7UP or A&W Root Beer being vended out of a given machine like that one. I'm 60, and my great uncle owned a mechanic's garage and had pretty much that same machine in there for years. I seem to recall the price then was 25 cents.
Back in the late 70s, early 80s, my grandfather used to have one of these in the back hallway of a store he owned in Lebanon, Oregon. It was pretty old even then. It used small 12oz(?) bottles.
I remember buying beverages from machines just like this one.
I'm forty years old... maybe three summers back we drove to Louisiana and saw one of these machines. I ended up getting a picture of me using it because I've never seen one like that before. LOL.
Those machines kept the bottles very cold compared to modern machines. Just above freezing.
You’re a good dad.
That machine is probably from the mid to late 50's, before cans became popular. I had a few machines like that in the 80's. The next generation held cans and had a can pierce/opener that was built into the front (pre pull tabs). Now those machines are collector items, not usable to actually sell soda because they cant be converted to accept dollar bills.
When I was a kid, the girl 2 doors over, her Dad was an HVAC tech. (This story is from about 1978) He acquired what had been a "dead" (non-cooling) Coke vending machine about 1 generation behind the one shown here. As far as I remember, it was still priced at 10 cents, and the dispensing mechanism still worked, but he fixed up the compressor and got it cooling properly again, parked it in the garage, and made it his beer cooler. I seldom had change in my pockets at that age, but one day I had or found a dime, dropped it in the slot, and it stopped in the mechanism, because her Dad had disabled it with something stopping up the coin accepter mechanism. He simply opened up the machine, which no longer locked, and either loaded up fresh beer, or grabbed out cold ones.
As time went along, he learned to keep track of how many beer roughly were in the machine, because during the weekdays while he was at work, the neighborhood teens were finding ways to... uh, keep hydrated in the summer heat. He was a decent guy though, was calm and kind like my own Dad was. He liked the neighborhood kids as though they were his own, but you knew not to cross the line when he was around. Wherever you are now, Don R., you were a touch of class in an otherwise boring neighborhood. And a stand-up member of society. Your daughter, however, turned out to be a tease and a (something else that rhymes with "strut"). And I would bet that if Don is still around, and still drinks beer, he keeps it cold in that same old Coke machine.
We use the same unit as a beer fridge in the summer. She's heavy on power but super cool!!
I love the old coke machine.
Showing my age here but you seem to know how to figure things out... Impressive display and presentation...
That drain cup appears to be super clever. I suspect it is supposed to work like a "drinking bird": the cup stays up until it fills, then it momentarily rotates down and dumps the water, then closes again.
Yes it could stay closed and hold the water to evaporate, only dumping if it was overfilled.
Awesome Video, keep working on it, get it lit up and shiny, you can even use LED bulbs. ❤❤✌✌☮☮
A friend of mine has a motorcycle shop that has a vintage Coke machine like this. The refrigerant system failed and they retired it to the storage room. I’d love to restore it.
The young adults cant even dream how good them times where,
Changing of the guard led to the destroying of this place go back to those times before its to late.... i loved those machines used them daily.
Thats an awesome piece
Is the drip cup thing just a method of keeping the air from exchanging to the outside? Almost like a P or S trap in plumbing, I remember a video you mentioned this on larger commercial units on the roof.. Not sure why else it might be there
14:18 your daughter is adorable! I admire your patience. 😀
They removed the pin from the soda mechanism so the owner can get bottles without putting coins in
C-7 bulbs are still available, 3 watts or 5, match the original it's on the base. Excellent work
Wow can’t believe I even heard the words scrap as this unit is so rare and desirable!
@@spencerd8201 hey now! Scrap is rare and desirable too! 😉
I suppose perhaps I'm just a little less sentimental than others. I shall spare it from the scrap pile.
@@ReubenSahlstrom Water proof that splicing by the drip cup, lube up the drip cup, wax the body, clean out the mold & replace the burned out bulb & enjoy your Coke machine for years to come. Just a thought. Pleasure to see you fixed it & it can be used again. Enjoy your handiworks delights on a hot summers day!
That small bulb is called ( for lack of a better term) a nightlight bulb. You can get them anywhere. Dollar store has them in the light bulb section.
The reason its rejecting your dimes is because they are a different weight. I have one of these, and it does the same thing. I save old coins from the 90s and older just for this. Also the weird incandecent is just a christmas tree light bulb. Theyre very common. I think its a c7
7 Pepsi bottle caps would get me into the theater back in the 50’s
I had one of those I bought in the 90s at a garage sale for $40, they did not have the key and when I got it home I drilled out the lock and found $75 in pre-64 silver coins. I sold the machine for $1600 in 2015. The face place where it lights up on mine said have a Coke and a smile
@@armadilllo now that sir, was a profitable find! 🤣
It looks like there is a lip on the bottom to hold a container underneath that condensate drain, presumably it would be emptied when the machine was replenished.
The weighted release cap is so designed to keep pests from accessing the interior of the unit.
"Ridge, Right, Ring, Ground" That's how I learned it as a telco lineman for wires.
Yep, Right, Ridge, Ring, Red.
@@eastcoastwatch672 I forgot Red!?? Christmas tree and Bumble Bee for hooking up inside wire. His wiring polarity was probably backwards. Turned it back correctly.....Magic!
Those old Coca-Cola machines were made very well and they can be restored to their original condition which should command a very high price if you sell it.
Awesome video. Great to see this classic Coke machine live again. Now, how do you adjust that coin mech to take Quarters?
You should keep it…Show your grandkids how their mom helped you 🤔🥰👍🏻🤩
I have one just like it, 1967. I used to keep it filled, (any long neck bottle will work in these). This one has nice paint job and really good condition, now you've sorted out wiring. I know the smell you're referring to, were you able to remedy that? Because i haven't and I've tried everything in last 30 yrs.
Edit to add: I'm not understanding comments saying to "restore". This is the exact condition ppl and collectors are looking for, good and original condition. A little turtle wax or other car wax is all that's needed.
Yeah I think the all original look is nice. I get that some people like to sandblast and repaint everything, but to me it takes away from the antique vibe and stories it tells.
I would think the drain that is weighted, was leaking onto the wiring causing the short. But nice to see you walk through it.
Remember when they were 10 cents. And when mom gave us a dime to buy a bottle it was an exciting experience.
That type coke machine was the more annoying ones to us kids about 1967 or so. We liked the self dispensing ones you didn't have to pull. There were some horizontal ones also.
Definitely an R-12 and the compressor is even labeled for it in big yellow letters CCl2F2 (Dichlorodifluoromethane) which is R-12.
You can use some hotshot or MP39 if when there is a system issue.
@JaimeGarciaX or 409a. That's what we usually drop in for an r12 replacement. I have worked on some r414b systems that I think were r12 originally too.
Thier were still using them in the 80s crazy it was cool
Wait. Did you say you don't know where to get a night light bulb? You can get them anywhere in incandescent and led
I think the reason it won't take your dimes is because modern dimes are slightly thinner.
when i was a kid in the 70's this old man had store with an older machine then yours 16 oz soda for 25 cents the bottles were like a greenish color
The weighted cup is to keep bugs out of the drain and condenser.
I wonder if the coin issue is because of the machine not recognizing modern dimes.
That is a gravity assist one way drain,also;an anti rodent/vermin lock.
thats a c9 bulb or nitelite bulb, hardware store or even wallymart has them,led
@@oldcarnocar might be worth picking one up then if they're that common!
Very cool but it really needs to be fully restored !!!!
@@RickyD1968 I don't know, I sort of like the all original vibe!
Why? It works fine now, and original paint is in good condition. And I would bet if he polished it up with car wax, it'd shine like a new penny.
When I was a kid I remember outside the firehouse in my city they had one of these.
I remember going there and buying a Coke and drinking it sitting in front of the firehouse.
I don't know if the firehouse owned it or the City or if a vending company owned it.
But I think it was 15 cents
It wasn't 25
It wasn't 10 cents
Pretty sure it was 15 cents
I remember the bottles were small
10 ounce maybe
I remember seeing the Pepsi 16 ounce glass bottles in the convenience store.
They were 25 cents.
I used to get a donut and a bottle of Pepsi at the Local Food Mart across the street from my apartment on my way to school.
I would have a donut and soda most mornings.
I remember school lunch
Dinner was never great
I wish I could have had a good breakfast but I was lucky I could get the donut and soda
😢
The drip cup thing is probably to keep the heat out or the cold in.
You can use it for and bottles around 12oz coke size charge your friends 20 cents for beers 😂
It is a nightlight bulb you can get a LED one barely cheap at any hardware store or lumber or Walmart
My wife is co-owner of a barber shop and they have a machine just like that. They never use it because it is hard to find the bottled soda these days and it uses too much electricity...
That looks like a C-7 night light bulb so you're local supermarket will have them
The little cup is so you don't get unwanted. Guests inside the machine and the coins keep dropping back because there's no product in the machine.
Appears to be a cs 64 model prior to a F model. The Tecumseh compressor dates it to prior to 1964 before the cavalier sell out.
Give that old relic a good cleaning… and USE IT!!! 😊