[Swansea Hackspace] Vending Machine?

[Nathan Hackett]

These type of machines do regularly sell in the £500 range, even
non-working ones. The listing is for 15 days, I'll leave it a week or so
and then maybe make an offer for around £100. Dunno, like you said there's
no rush. :)
I thought that fridge-as-pc-case idea turned out to terrible in practice?
Because they're not usually designed to dissipate a constant heat source. I
might be wrong, would be very interested what kind of temps they got.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:53:01 +0100
> Nathan Hackett <nhackett1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I already know the answer will be "we can't afford it" but I thought I'd
> > post this anyway...
> > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Snack-Vending-Machine-sells-
> snacks-crisps-chocolates-Fridge-Part-Not-Working-/172293532212
> >
> > It's for collection in Swansea, and they might go for a lower price.
> Would
> > be great to stock with cheap microcontroller boards and other commonly
> > needed parts. And also a fun group project to get it running and looking
> > nice. :)
>
> We aren't in any hurry - it's too heavy to ship and probably nobody else
> in Swansea will want it. Why not wait until after it doesn't sell and
> offer to pick it up for free when he's bored of trying to sell it and has
> to pay someone to dispose of it ?
>
> Some years ago in North Carolina btw I actually met someone who had
> converted an old fridge into his machine cabinet by boring a hole in the
> side and running a pipe through it for the network and power cables, plus
> some other mods to handle condensation 8)
>
> Alan
>
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