Earl Weiss
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Got a new JC Island with vaults and 2 combo vacs and canopy. I already have several JC islands with vaults and combo units at other locations. Decide to install myself.
Realized when I insert the drop tubes there is some play. Call my distributers installer who says Yep, when you set the concrete you will need to put a pipe in the tube and "Gorilla it over" to line it up.
When the concrete hardens We put the unit on top and the tube is about 2" out of alignment!. Seems the safe is centered and the tube centered in it, but the collar on the unit is off centered because the coin mech is off center.
Now you have to slide a 400lb? unit over where the tube is, guestimate how much you need to bend it with your precise pipe insertion method, slide it out of the way bend the tube, re check and repeat as neccessary. (Spoke to my distributer's installer again and he said "Yep, toughest part of the install.")
What should have been a 2 minute process to put the vac in place takes about 45 minutes of adjustments while moving the unit. The drop tube also tends to get out of round which then needs to be fixed so it will fit in the collar of the unit.
Why can't either the vault be moved over to line up or the hole in the top of the vault be made off center to line up? How about a cardboard template to make a plywood one you can bolt to the mounting studs with a hole for the drop tube to make sure it stays lined up while the concrete hardens?
Seems like simple no cost solutions to a PITA problem.
I won't even mention that I was shorted on the mounting hardare
Realized when I insert the drop tubes there is some play. Call my distributers installer who says Yep, when you set the concrete you will need to put a pipe in the tube and "Gorilla it over" to line it up.
When the concrete hardens We put the unit on top and the tube is about 2" out of alignment!. Seems the safe is centered and the tube centered in it, but the collar on the unit is off centered because the coin mech is off center.
Now you have to slide a 400lb? unit over where the tube is, guestimate how much you need to bend it with your precise pipe insertion method, slide it out of the way bend the tube, re check and repeat as neccessary. (Spoke to my distributer's installer again and he said "Yep, toughest part of the install.")
What should have been a 2 minute process to put the vac in place takes about 45 minutes of adjustments while moving the unit. The drop tube also tends to get out of round which then needs to be fixed so it will fit in the collar of the unit.
Why can't either the vault be moved over to line up or the hole in the top of the vault be made off center to line up? How about a cardboard template to make a plywood one you can bolt to the mounting studs with a hole for the drop tube to make sure it stays lined up while the concrete hardens?
Seems like simple no cost solutions to a PITA problem.
I won't even mention that I was shorted on the mounting hardare
