Alright so today we’re going to take apart a candy vending machine…one of these guys.
I’m going to show you how to take it apart, how to set the candy settings, the little
lock on the top, kind of all the basics that you need to know to operate one of these guys.
First step is to take those out.
Alright so in order to adjust the candy setting for each one of these you got to remove these
two screws down at the bottom, and that one right there.
Then the whole head will come up off of the plastic part on the bottom.
Taking that out as well.
So I got those three screws out.
This part itself comes out.
You never really need to mess around with this part.
Those two screws right there just kind of keep these springs in place.
You don’t really need to mess with those unless you’re going to clean it out.
So this is what adjusts the…lets the candy flow down through it.
You can adjust just this top part right here with those little grooves up here at the top.
So the wider that it is, the more candy will flow down.
The smaller that it is, the less candy will flow down.
So if you’re going to do skittles or smaller candies, you want to do something like that.
If you want to do M&Ms, like the peanut M&Ms, you want to do something like this, or like
mixed nuts would be on the far position like that.
So and this whole portion comes out as well, you know, if you ever want to take it out
and clean it.
So now, to remove this whole plastic piece including all of these mechanisms you got
to take off this bolt, that bolt, this one and that one.
So there are 4 that you got to remove.
Ok so those were all 9 millimeter on all those sides.
It takes a second to pop it out away from the holes, like the places where you screw
on the nut.
But this itself is the… where the candy falls through.
So here we have the coin mechanism.
So that’s where the candy falls through into those places right there.
The coin mechanisms themselves, they all come apart as well.
Turn it around.
To get the coin mechanisms out all you have to do is unscrew this right here on the side
and then rotate this so that it’s not connecting to that metal part anymore.
So if you spin it, let’s see if I can do this with the camera, spin it like that and
then it’s not holding it to the side anymore.
Then this whole place, reaching around to the front, will just kind of pull out.
I can get a better shot of that from the front.
So you can see it has a clip on the side right there, so when that clips in this side, the
other end that we just unscrewed has that little metal part that sticks on the other
side to hold the whole thing up.
So that’s how that part’s held in.
The rest of this just kind of slides up and out of the little hole so that what’s holding
that in is the coin mechanism itself.
So I’m going to show you how the coin mechanism itself works.
So when you’re turning this it stops unless there’s a quarter down inside.
So when there’s a quarter inside and you turn it, the quarter allows the mechanism
to spin all the way through and then it spits the quarter out the other side like that.
Then it stops again.
And gravity does help you out as well.
Alright so to install a lock, there are quite a few pieces here that I’ll kind of explain
what each one does.
This is the main part right here, it needs to come up through the bottom.
It doesn’t really matter which way this one goes.
This piece right here goes on top of that main lock piece to hold it down.
So once you have that piece down, you take this nut over here and you throw it over the
top of that to hold the whole thing snug.
So once that’s on you can take the lock mechanism itself – it doesn’t really matter
which way it goes in – but stick it up through the bottom.
And then you see on that it’s got a little square head?
So this is the part where you choose how far you want the key to turn.
You have these two little gizmos right here.
This is if you want your key to turn 180 degrees.
This is if you want your key to turn just 90 degrees.
There’s a little stopping point right there which makes it go one way or the other.
It stops on those little grooves.
So I put the 90 degree one on and you can kind of see as I turn it there that it’s
catching there.
As I turn the key 90 degrees it catches there on that side.
So that’s what decides what the key’s turning in.
Once that’s in place I’ll take that piece right there and position it on the top just
like that.
Then you take your screw and screw it in the top of that to hold everything in place.
Alright so now the key’s in place, I can spin it whichever way I want.
So this is the open position, this is the closed.
So as you can see in the opened position it clamps onto that little piece right there.
Close it over the top and lock it.
Now it won’t open up anymore.
So anyway, that’s how you change the lock on a 3-headed vending machine, as well as
take it apart and adjust all the candy and stuff.
So I usually put up videos, you know, a couple times a week, you know, different projects
like this.
Just fixing everything and showing you how to do life.
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