Message from @Cole
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do you mean a freezer
No, I mean my ice cream vending machine
I'm fat, but I'm not "have my own personal ice cream machine" fat
What broke?
god said
ice machine 🅱roke
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Matthews dick fell off
@Matthew so, i need to hear an opinion from an expert vendinch machine care taker
your machines accept bills, right?
what's more likely to be accepted:
- a perfectly printed bill fresh out of an ATM
- a really folded and crumpled old bill
neither
@Cole depends heavily on the machine. Some can be very finicky. I have coin mechs that will reject state quarters. Generally, you should destress the bill before you put it in, so that it feeds correctly. It's passed through rollers that take it from a horizontal position to a vertical one, so overly stiff bills tend to fold over and get rejected, and limp bills do the same
Also, Bill readers are supposed to be cleaned weekly with isopropyl and a microfiber, since bills leave a lot of lint (since they're actually a cotton blend)
I recently though I was gonna finally get a coin changer machine to accept my bill on the first time because I literally took it out of an ATM like 30 minutes ago
but lmao nope, after like 10 refusals some maintenance guy came, motioned at me to hand him the bill
I'm like "yay he'll give me change and I don't have to fuck with this machine"
he takes it, folds and crumples it HARD
then just aligns the front of the bill so the reader takes it
instantly accepted
Lmao
Yeah, his reader probably needs to be cleaned, then. The rollers are so gunked up that they need the bill to be all lumpy so it can grab onto it
anyway, it was a real ??? moment, I was looking at the guy like he was literal jesus
They sell these cleaning cards for machines, they're shaped like bills, but they're soaked in isopropyl. You just feed it into the machine 4-5 times and it'll clean out most of the gunk.
huh
real TIL hours
Some don't use alcohol, I guess
They're fairly complex machines. They test the bill optically, by weight, and how much tension the rollers put on it while it's pulling it in. If either the bill or the validator are dirty, any one of those metrics could be off and the bill will get rejected
Neat
I wonder if the gunk-lint part is true for euro bills too
or any other currency
since the materials used are different to dollars afaik
I mean sure, it probably gets dirty in its own way too
Any kind of money will pick up pocket lint
but I wonder if the maintenance process is different
Euros have to pay a machine maintenance tax
But it's okay, because euros literally clap and cheer when taxed
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