PowerVendor Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Do you folks have any experience with cranes from the S & B Candy & Toy Co? I saw a few used Route 66 candy cranes and was wondering how reliable they were. Any body know what type of electronics they use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musser Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Unless you know a lot about cranes stay away from the used ones from S&B or Coast to Coast, their first cranes were good and their cranes are good today but they both struggled for awhile and had some real losers in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronsidney Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 yeah i have to say the first cranes coming out of china where real losers, Taiwan had the first imports i remember and toy soldiers where already dominating most distributors showrooms cause smart and Ice where 4k so a 2k toy soldier seemed like a steal.but the chinese ones where sooooo cheap that a lot of suppliers got greedy and dumped Taiwan good cranes and went with their half price chinese copies. Ironic because Taiwan was the copy king before our great Government let the floodgates of china open and all their cheap slave-wage produced goods. A billion slaves owned by the Gov is not something that american workers can compete with. My first(and last) container of chinese cranes cost me $375 each, Taiwan wu mar and feiloli where 700 each (without dba). Suppliers had customers happy with the 2k price and they just pocketed that extra 300 and just kept that 2k price and maybe a small percentage cheaper. Every corner was cut and hobby-factory produced goods at the beginning. But the chinese are fast learners and with us showing them how and correcting their errors each sequential container got better and better. Now they have huge factories with all the mechanism.. We as the game industry are gnats on a hog compared to Walmart and automakers etc. You know I bet all those factories we supported the building of in China to produce our throw away and disposable society we live in today could easily be converted to making guns and military supplies if they where to ever come into a big war? kinda like the awesome USA of the late 30's making all those old cars and refrigerators for our consumers that where easily retrofitted to produce military gear for WW2, and we know what happened then. Not only that but the mentality of service industry career in the US and no people coming up that can even produce anymore,I'm 41 and i was the last generation to see factory work as a career choice in high school as a option, now its medical,legal, accounting, retail, etc. nobody can PRODUCE anything. So who will even man the factories if we where to have to be self sufficient in time of crisis or war? sure sucks to be on the other side of the fence doesn't it! especially when we climbed over it cause we thought the grass was greener with the cheap goods. I'm gonna drink some more of the Government kool-aid they are giving away free now and watch history channel on WW2 documentaries and feel all good and proud of how awesome our USA is (was) , get all thrilled and excited and say to myself "Boy we are some bad mf-ers,nobody better not ever mess with us our we will kick some A and take names!" good day! ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronsidney Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 oh I'm sorry power vendor, i was high on that kool aide and went on a rant.. the first ones i believe where feiloli and they came through c2c, then when c2c changed factories they where YES, and then some came from smart and where feiloli.. I have only seen a few at auction and for sale locally and they where those 2, just need to look on board and see if there is a feiloli sticker, if it is then its a good crane. the new YES of today are really good from what I've heard as c2c has really trained those guys now and got the bugs worked out. i seen new one at show and it even had their own proprietary board they are making themselves now i believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musser Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I agree Ron, where do we buy our steel? We are just a hollow shell of a nation. Too cheap and greedy for our own survival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjacks Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I acquired some S&B cranes on a route I bought. Not sure how old they were but they were all breaking down so I have slowly replaced all of them. I really wasn't impressed with the build quality at all. Couldn't open or close the coin doors with out the coin mechs catching on the coin shoots etc. Just a hot mess of a design. I like S&B's candy and toy mixes but I am not buying their cranes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerVendor Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 oh I'm sorry power vendor, i was high on that kool aide and went on a rant.. Ron, your comments are always original and looked forward to...... I like S&B's candy and toy mixes but I am not buying their cranes. You folks in Texas that are interested. Bay Vending Co. in Baytown, Tx. has a few for sale: https://houston.tl.craigslist.org/bfd/4703327675.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjacks Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Ron, your comments are always original and looked forward to...... You folks in Texas that are interested. Bay Vending Co. in Baytown, Tx. has a few for sale: https://houston.tl.craigslist.org/bfd/4703327675.html That is pretty funny. That is one of my S&B's that I offloaded recently. Stay clear of that crane. Broke down constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerVendor Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 That is pretty funny. That is one of my S&B's that I offloaded recently. Stay clear of that crane. Broke down constantly. Thanks, mjacks. I owe you one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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