Old Ladys Cash Register

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So my mum is turning old this year! (happy Birthday mum) and she likes old things so im tidying up a old cash register for her Birthday present.

 

So this is the Beast!

 

Purchased it as 'was going... until kids pushed multiple buttons at once and it jammed and the draw won't stay closed anymore...'

so it's a bit of a gamble hopefully I can get it to go again.

Elsa stickers came free!

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So pulling it apart

 

 

was all imperial which was fun

Also someone had been in here before as a couple fasteners weren't matching

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While pulling apart found a small fortune inside...

at the rate I was pulling out stuck coins I thought the unit might end up paying for itself

 

 

Ended up with a few coins of various ages and places but shy of them paying for the unit, one of the coins was a collectors millennium coin which is a little bit cool

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The first few pieces all sanded down then epoxy etched and then primed

 

 

Also managed to free up the jammed buttons so the buttons work fine now and had a good look inside, it appears there is still a couple bits broken, the link that lets you change between no-sale/cash isn't there and there is another piece/arm/link thing on the other side that looksl ike it should have a lever attached to it that would come out to the user and I can't quite tell where it would join but that's just sitting loose in the unit which is a little bit of a shame as these things are probably past me being able to fix now

but its still awesome you can ring up cash amounts and it makes the bell go, you can also turn on and off the bell.

All the mechanical working of this thing are insanely awesome. 

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Cool

If you need any help with this just ask Al's mum, she has one next to her bed

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Some more progress

Removed the glass from the outer shell, the glass is actual glass! It's missing one bit and it's all very thin I'd like to replace the missing piece but I'm not sure I'll be able to find somewhere to cut me a thin enough piece.

While on the topic of fixing things on this, the cash register has two locks and zero keys, I know very little about locks, cheaper to try replace the whole mechanisms (very generic looking - will try to remember to take photos next time) from somewhere or to take to a locksmith to have keys made?

 

 

 

There were two holes at the top of the machine, looks like someone possibly fixed something to the machine, I assume this because when I search for images of the cash register I can't find any with anything on the top.

So I welded up the two holes and cleaned it up.

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Carefully removed the plates from this (last) panel, I'm going to try find the worlds smallest pop riveter to put them back on, the panels with a small piece of glass behind them really concern me though.  The the front of the base I had previously left on the plate with the serial number deciding I didn't want to damage it butt his panel was in too bad of condition to not attend to or to try work around the plates left on.

 

There is two of these (bakerlite?) panels on the cash register one of the front of the draw the other where you hand rests while using the machine, both were full of filth I've cleaned one so far it its been the most time consuming job so far.  I tried using wax and grease remover as well as thinners to try just lift of the gunk but it wasn't working so I took to it with a razor blade and pick to help clean it out between the grooves then again cleaned it with thinners.  These are going to be painted black but I thought it was important to clean them out properly because the tread isn't very deep and I didn't want to lose that look when they are primed then painted.
 

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So the panels have been rubbed down and the colour made,  It was hard to get a good photo of the colour with the booth lights and a shitty cell phone camera, will try remember to take some proper pics with my camera when I get it home.

 

 

So that's not me ^^ i'd actually use a mask when spraying poison into the air I'm breathing, also the colour is as mentioned above not shown very well here it looks more brown than it actually is.

So the plan is tomorrow, paint the red and the black bits and then bring it home for reassembly in the weekend.

Also when I have photos I'll mention how the front of the draw didn't work out quite how I would have liked

I'll also have a go at using a razor blade to tidy up the gaps on the body where the paint has bridged a little, if I can't get that to look tidy I may try a very fine black pin stripe over all the joins.

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Got some red parts painted today and have taken things home to work on for the weekend

 

 

 

and I'm starting to put it back together but realize I need to sort locks and cleaning some of the internals before I get any further.

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So as it's the night before I leave for Auckland I decided I better put this thing together.

I've spend the night cleaning parts, polishing glass and tags, gluing tags, badges and glass and reassembling this thing back together.

 

 

So this is it!

Happy Birthday mum sorry I couldn't get it up to you for your actual birthday but here have a build thread about it.

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Cool ! Beat that Casio...