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Author Topic: How to screw up a bill changer Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2012 12:47 AM                     The machine is built into an alcove. The outlets are behind the machines. I'd probably have to move at least one of the machines to get to the cord. If you really wanted to do the job right, you could use a 12 ga. shotgun. Approach from the hallway on the blind side of the camera and pump two rounds of tactical buckshot into it. Then two rifled slugs go into the machine. That ought to do it!  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 12-04-2012 01:34 AM                        Say hello to my little friend?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 12-04-2012 07:58 AM                        I would doubt that our local guys could change a cord in-the-field if cut off short. Still, you may be right because of the camera. In college, we moved one to the basement and held it hostage. Louis  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2012 08:26 AM                     It might require a lot of disassembly to get at it. Yes?  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-04-2012 12:30 PM                     1. Ignore vending machine entirely. 2. Go to concession stand. 3. Get a Coke.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2012 05:07 PM                     There is no concession stand. The closest store is the CVS two blocks down the street. I usually go to the Sheetz which I drive by on the way to work because it's cheaper. I often ignore the vending machines until it's either late at night or on Saturday afternoon when I'm working. Sometimes, the machine does work. Other times, I do have correct change. But, on those times when it doesn't work it's fun to joke around about putting a few shotgun slugs through the front of the machine. People who let the venom out of their bloodstream in little bits, early on, won't be the ones who end up going postal, later.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-05-2012 09:41 AM                     Next time you're at the grocery store, stock up on snacks! It'll be cheaper than buying from vending machines.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-05-2012 09:54 AM                     Often do. It's weekends and nights when I want to use this semi-functional vending machine. Stocking up soda and keeping them in the car at this time of the year isn't a wise idea. Ever seen what happens when bottled or canned soda freezes? Ruptured soda all over the back seat!  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-05-2012 10:11 AM                     Oh - I was thinking there was a place inside the theatre where you could keep your stuff. No?  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 12-05-2012 10:23 AM                       Why is this silly topic still up?  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-05-2012 10:41 AM                     It's just Film Yak.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-05-2012 02:45 PM                     I'm still waiting for Guttag to chime in with the definitive answer.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 12-05-2012 03:33 PM                       Steve usually does not chime in on the inane.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 12-05-2012 08:16 PM                        Speaking of the inane; in the 1960s they had those office Coke machines with the slots in the top. You could see, but not reach the money bin. I had a long grappler that I could borrow the money from the till. I took $1.00 in coin, less the cost of the Coke, bought a Coke, and then folded up $1 and put it in the till. The money balanced and I got my Coke. They never did figure our who or how. I would hope they didn't think the dollar acually went through. Louis  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 12-06-2012 02:25 PM                     That was an expensive coke in the 1960s.  |  IP: Logged

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