I've been on the gumball, oddball, smaller and weirdo coin-op machines lately... Since I'm out of room for more arcade machines I can fill in all the nooks, crannies and counters with other coin-op junk. Gumball machines and other coin op are all over the place, but you've gotta keep your eyes peeled since if its a good deal someone like me swoops it up!!
This topic makes me want to start a new thread, but I'll put the pictures I just took for your thread here first...
The big guy is a 1950's Stoner brand 6-slot univendor candy machine, model 120.
The all glass domed gumball is a 1950's Atlas machine which takes pennies AND nickels, 1 or 5 spins! No stand, scored it for $50...
The green gumball is a 1960's Acorn machine, takes pennies, and I found it WITH the stand at a thrift store for $20... then I found out it was half off day!!! $10.00
Of course all of these machines were grungy, dirty, gummy and nasty. I wouldn't have eaten anything out of them. The gumball machines only basically took me a night each to entirely disassemble and clean up to spic and span I'd eat out of it without worrying.
The STONER machine has been super cool and alot of fun getting it cleaned up and working properly! It was a long process, but mainly cleaning up 50 years of gunk and ick and getting hundreds and hundreds of parts to all start moving smooth again.
I will get a bunch more, I've just been patient and gotten some REALLY cool ones instead of getting impatient and sinking too much money into a bunch of crap!