Alan173
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I was lucky enough to be asked by a good friend to accompany him on a game pick up this past week. While there we ran across a vintage Federal hot chocolate/coffee vending machine from the 1970's. For those of you who grew up in the 1960's or 1970's these machines were seemingly everywhere! When I saw that old Lucite door you have to lift open to pull your cup out I was hooked!
I thought it would be a great fit to put in my work area where I repair my boards/monitors. A work room always needs a coffee machine right?
The machine options are whipped hot chocolate, black coffee, coffee and cream, coffee-cream-sugar and even soup! So when I have that repair I just can't walk away from now I can have a cup of coffee and soup for dinner! LOL.
It took quite a significant rebuild, thorough cleaning and tuning to get it running just right (what a crazy damn machine!)....but for the effort an old machine like this brings a smile to my face.
Needless to say it is a huge hit with my kids...and for this winter we now have Hot Chocolate Tuesdays! Such a deal for only 20 cents a cup!
.....and you get a nickel back if you put in a quarter!
Of course.....just one more silly thing to add to Tranquility Base Arcade....
I thought it would be a great fit to put in my work area where I repair my boards/monitors. A work room always needs a coffee machine right?
It took quite a significant rebuild, thorough cleaning and tuning to get it running just right (what a crazy damn machine!)....but for the effort an old machine like this brings a smile to my face.
Needless to say it is a huge hit with my kids...and for this winter we now have Hot Chocolate Tuesdays! Such a deal for only 20 cents a cup!
Of course.....just one more silly thing to add to Tranquility Base Arcade....
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