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I was beginning to think that no one would have an opinion on this thread when I know “Forum” people have opinions about everything. This idea won’t work everywhere, but continue to keep the feedback coming. I‘m a big boy, so, what ever your opinions, “let ‘er rip”. I don’t think you can...

Bubbles, Yes, the Mars are much better than the Coinco for overall capabilities. Uncle Sam

Coinco is the only one that can upgrade the validator. Like Mustang wrote, we sent one in and got it back 3 days later. This is in California near LA. Most vending machines will work with just the changer in them, so you can remove the validator and still be in business. Uncle Sam

Contact your closest Coinco Service center and ask them how to do it. They should know. Uncle Sam

This idea has been "rattling" around in my brain for a couple of years and now I think we have the capability now to put this dream into a "real world product". We would like some feedback from all wash operators about a ShurVend Quality Hot Drink machine with designed security that can be...

Structurally (the basic door and cabinet) has changed very little in the past 10 years, but the important software/firmware has improved greatly. If I wanted to install one of the new credit card systems in my 10 year old vendor (or any of those sold since then), it could be done easily. No...

The rapid development of very reliable digital technology creates great pressure on those of us who design and build equipment for the car wash industry. Add to that the necessity to protect this new technology from vandalism and theft and we have a steep hill to climb. One of the design...

Wax, I enjoyed meeting you also at the forum "dinner". These dinners are one of the few places where we can meet the other "forum crawlers". As for the $3K sales point I don't have anything new at that price, but I do have some older vendors that were freight damaged and got stuck back in the...

ICA had a task force that asked the exhibitors for suggestions and ideas that need to be addressed at furure Expos. I told them they need to get rid of the high cost to visit the Expo floor and just have a $25 charge (for all 3 days) to keep the homeless people out. Exhibitors need the traffic...

We got back into California late Friday evening even though we flew American Airlines. We did not have any delays out of Orlando mainly because our airplane model was not one of those that the FAA said had problems. Others had delays of hours, if not days, which we were told about. Now for the...

We had a great time at the forum party in Orlando. Thanks, Bill for organizing it. We got to meet some of the regulars on the forum so we can put a face with their handle. We got to meet and greet many old forum friends and enjoy each other's company. Uncle Sam

I think Dean hit it on the head; traffic was less than it has been, but the ones who were there were buying. That is good, but I would still like to see more traffic from operators who might be "tire kicking"; if you don't get them to a show then you don't have a shot at them. The entrance...

Very sorry to hear of WR's passing. He was much too young. I met his son, Bill II, at one of the Vegas shows when WR still had the car wash. I can still remember his coming to the WCA show in Vegas in 1999 to visit me when I showed my first vending machine. He was very supportive of my...

rph, Bill is probably on the road somewhere going to Orlando. I shouldn't be answering for him, but his booth is #2709, right next to JJ. Uncle Sam

Although we are up to our A***S in shipping out customer's vendors before we leave for the show, we just want to remind all of you that can get to Orlando to come by Booth #1372 to see the latest in vending systems or to just say "Hi" :) to us. We have never met some of you who are customers...

There are some wash sites that need more security than others, so an extra layer of steel expanded metal has been designed into the security cage. We did this at the request of one of our customers and, frankly, I was not too enthusiastic about the looks. We had used expanded metal for...

We are going to focus here on computerized vending systems (versus the old paradigm drop shelf vending systems) which are now available for operators at a wash site. These computerized vendor systems can merchandise (glass-front) car wash products, sodas, snacks, candy, or any product that will...

MEP, I had some conversations with JJ @ Ra-Lock this week about the Medeco lock and key situation. Here what I found out. 1. Medeco makes keys that are registered and also what they call commercial or industrial grade keys. The registered keys are very carefully audited, secured under lock...

This is an option for our customers who will not get to the Expo in Orlando April 8-10, 2008. We have the programmers to load the new software into the Mars 2000 series MDB and the Conlux validators. Our customers can send their vendor validators to us by UPS, we can upload them the same day...

We learned something today that we didn't know about the new AC software version in the vendor. In the post above we talked about a bill validator and credit card reader as the only 2 options. Today we are talking about a bill validator and coin changer as the only 2 options. (Usually the...