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  1. Yup. Abloy and Medeco are the best for security. Even the LSI Cobra 7 are a small step above because they don’t fit the cheap tubular lock picks due to the shape of the center post, and are a bit hard to tension for hand picking. Still pickable by experienced hands but will deter a casual. And honestly if a Medeco or Abloy and a couple hockey puck locks isn’t enough to stop theft it’s time to pull the equipment from that location or switch to card only before your equipment gets Swiss cheesed by a guy with a sawzall.
  2. There’s a jumper harness for Mars 110v VN series validators to make them always enabled.
  3. Remember that the newest E series machines are pushing 15 years old now and the oldest are over 30. The VMaxes are only slightly newer. Vending machines generally have phenomenal service lives.
  4. It was built to do either, with the right parts kit but the parts to make it vend glass were never very common and haven’t been made in a long long time. Not that it’s a good idea to vend glass in the first place from one of the these. The bottle opener was standard in pretty much all Dixie Narcos up until the 90s, even if the machine was never setup to vend glass from the factory.
  5. Oak Vista cab. Made anywhere from probably the 60s or so (not super sure) to the 2010s. Glass panels instead of plexiglas would indicate earlier production, as would 5 or 10 cent mechs, but parts can and do get swapped all the time so not a very reliable indicator. Best bet for parts would be eBay. The center rod can be replaced with 1/4-20 threaded rod cut to length from a hardware store, if you don’t care about originality. As for value unfortunately not worth a whole lot, 20-60 bucks is fair but you could probably get 70-80 for it in an antiques store storefront. Just way too common, and lots of vendors are selling off equipment.
  6. No, they rely on drop sensors to work. Just get a new sensor, they are prone to failure, used ones are too much of a crapshoot.
  7. If you want to swap it any MDB coin mech will work. An MEI CF7512 has great change capacity and is rock solid reliable. If you don’t need a ton of change capacity get a Coinco 9302GX. Also rock solid mechs.
  8. Yes. The parts I listed are in addition to the ones you originally listed.
  9. Need a main door harness, select switch harness, display harness, MDB harness, transformer, and display as well. Probably some other parts I’m forgetting.
  10. I’ve done it before a couple times. You need every single harness except the lighting harness. Not worth it if you have to buy harnesses. Only reason it was worth it to me is because I had multi price parts machines and clean, nice single price 501Es. One 600E that was absolutely destroyed (picked up a machine at auction for cheap that spent its life outdoors on a beach and rusted out, plus major sun damage and someone used a crowbar to attempt to break into) and 501E that took a swan dive off a forklift. Pull all the harnesses and boards out of the parts machine and transfer them over to the single price machine.
  11. I think you are looking for product pushers. They snap on the end of the spiral to either keep product in or help push it off the shelf. https://www.vesolutions.co/PRODUCT-PUSHER-UNIVERSAL-BLACK
  12. Only posts that this guy has is hijacking threads or reviving dead ones to ask about how to get into Pepsi HVVs. I personally do not give out info on how to open machines to new users, it’s a security risk. I’m sure a lot of other experienced guys feel the same. Doesn’t help that he’s ignoring forum etiquette at the same time, either.
  13. Your overhead is killing you. That amount of overhead is appropriate for someone with 20+ machines. You’ll need to expand to make money. Personally I’d keep the phone number, insurance, and tax. Maybe the website and email if you plan to expand. Drop the accountants and quick books, just use an excel spreadsheet or Wave, which is free. Get good used full size machines, don’t get new unless you land an awesome account that demands one. Probably a location doing 1000-1500 a month gross is when you should start considering new equipment, so 3-4 times the size of your current location at least. 350-500 a month, used machines all day every day. If a small location like the one you have balks at used equipment they aren’t worth the time. Product cost should be no more than 40% of sales price. Screw the complainers, they’ll always be there and usually don’t buy squat. You could sell a bag of chips for 50 cents and there will still be some boomer that thinks it’s a ripoff because he’s still stuck in 1985. Just curious, what make and model of machine did you buy?
  14. That looks like an aftermarket UCB board. The factory manual programming is useless, as the board has been replaced and upgraded. This is actually a very good thing. The UCB boards are much more capable and you can run credit card readers on the machine because you have one. Looks like you have the inOne board, manual here. https://www.dsvendinginc.com/images/pdf-manuals/ds950b.pdf
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