What continues to amaze me is that I learn something new about bulk vending all the time. I've been doing this for over a year now and my practices just keep getting refined and polished a little more each time this happens. At some point in time, I'll be able to call myself an experienced vendor.

I had an issue with an Oak coin mech yesterday and was talking about it to a buddy on here late last night (late for me any way) not him (he sleeps till noon). He suggested I check something on the mech and I was shocked. Not once have I read about what he suggested.

Now this mech in question already has 2 modifications that I have done to it to help prevent a piling problem. These modifications were the result of past conversations with him.

I am a skeptic all the way down to my bones and want to check it out before I post about it. (He has been known to yank a chain or two). But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. It also gave me the inspiration to write about the coin mech's. My experience is limited to Oak & Northwestern's, but nevertheless, it would be helpful.

So since he gave me this tip and a bunch of other's, I would like to tip my hat to [color="#FF0000"]will.vend.[/color] Continuing to pay it forward. Thanks Buddy.

Well, I checked it out and it's true so I am gonna post about it. If you look closely at the gear on the back of an Oak mech you will see a line on one of the teeth. If you turn the gear over you will notice a square hole. The tooth with the line on it is aligned at a 90 degree to the side of the square. This tooth should be pointing up when the mech is in the machine. None of the other teeth line up straight. It is that way so that the mech is in time with the wheel in the hopper. If not it will become out of time and mis vend or skip a vend every now and then. Since there are 9 teeth on the gear, this is probably why sometimes a machine mis vends every 4 time when using a capsule wheel. It goes through the motions 3 times and then re aligns itself on the 4th vend.