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Apparently someone decided to mash two warped coins and two foreign coins into our vending machine. If you take a close look at the largest coin, the hair of the embossed person is actually quite elevated, and the whole coin itself is about twice the thickness of a regular US quarter if you account for the hair.
So, smashing in damaged or foreign coins.
That’s exactly how not to use a vending machine.
How not to use a vending machine
We have some vending machines at our business.
Yesterday, someone came up to me and let me know that our snack vending machine was just eating money and not registering the actual values of the coins that were being inserted.
I tested it out, and it appeared to be true, so I refunded the customer’s money and got out my tools to fix the machine.
It was actually a surprisingly easy solution – there were a bunch of coins stuck between the coin acceptor and the coin processor, so the coins would go through the acceptor and get stuck before they would be read for their value and dropped into the coin container.
I took apart the entire coin acceptor and processing device and pulled out the jammed coins.
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Apparently someone decided to mash two warped coins and two foreign coins into our vending machine. If you take a close look at the largest coin, the hair of the embossed person is actually quite elevated, and the whole coin itself is about twice the thickness of a regular US quarter if you account for the hair.
So, smashing in damaged or foreign coins.
That’s exactly how not to use a vending machine.
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Apparently someone decided to mash two warped coins and two foreign coins into our vending machine. If you take a close look at the largest coin, the hair of the embossed person is actually quite elevated, and the whole coin itself is about twice the thickness of a regular US quarter if you account for the hair.
So, smashing in damaged or foreign coins.
That’s exactly how not to use a vending machine.