Gumball Machines Blog

St. Patrick’s Day Gumball Machine

Glendon — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:41:40 +0000

Get your St. Patrick’s Day festivities started off on the right foot with 9.8″ green gumball machine full of “Mike & Ike” fruit flavored bubble gum! Perfect for the leprechaun in your life!

Affliliate Your Bulk Vending Route With a Charity

Glendon — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:54:40 +0000

Once you find locations along your vending route, you will need to make a proposal to the property owners for usage of their business space. They may plan on charging you a hefty percentage of the gross monthly take. This percentage could push the 30% mark. That would drastically reduce your return on investment, depending on the number of machines you have.

One option you have at your disposal is to affiliate your vending business with a charity. You would be helping others and therefore, the property owner may be persuaded to help you along this endeavor as well. This is optimal, as you would not have to count the coins and pay out “X” percentage per month to the property owner but you would be able to make a small ($1.00 per machine/mo) donation to the charity you affiliate yourself with.

To start, you will have to contact a charity of your choice and see if they currently offer a vending outreach program. If they do not, you could try to set up a recurring donation agreement with them. The agreement should consist of how much you plan to donate, whether it be “X” amount per machine or one lump sum, when you plan to make the donations, etc… Once that is agreed upon, you should offer them space on your machines in which they can place their stickers to advertise their charity. Make sure you receive documentation of your affiliation agreement as this will help with the property owner and your agreement with them.

Affiliating yourself with a charity is a fantastic way to not only make donations to your favorite charity, but could help out your bottom line as well. Two good things at the same time!

Quick Reference Sizing and Vend

Glendon — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:42:05 +0000

Some people have trouble evaluating which vending item to use with which wheel. They don’t know witch items work best with the candy wheel compared to the gumball wheel. If you use the wrong item with the wrong wheel, the machine will just keep spilling candies until the globe is empty, making a complete mess in the meantime. Nobody wants to clean up 3,000 little rolling gumballs, so we made a quick reference chart of our most popular item sizes along with the vending amount released per single spin of the coin mechanism. The Candy Wheel has six different settings to control the size of the vend release which his also detailed below.

Gumball Wheel		Candy Wheel
Item Size	Qty. Vend	Item Size	Qty. Vend
1.00 (850 ct)	1	.76 (1900 ct)
.925 (1080 ct)	1	1^st Setting	3-4
		2^nd Setting	3
		3^rd Setting	2
		4^th Setting	2
		5^th Setting	2
		6^th Setting	0

		.62 (4800 ct)
		1^st Setting	8
		2^nd Setting	7-8
		3^rd Setting	5-6
		4^th Setting	4-5
		5^th Setting	3
		6^th Setting	2

For more information on our complete supply of bouncy balls or gumballs to fill your vending machine visit our website at www.gumball-machine.com

General Vending Wheel Uses and Sizes

Glendon — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:55:19 +0000

Your Classic Gumball Machine comes equipped to dispense various items with different vending wheels. The following is a basic guide to the different wheels and what items are used inside them. There are two different kinds of wheels. There is a gumball wheel (and riser) and an adjustable candy wheel (without riser.) The gumball wheel (with riser) dispenses gumballs from .62” up to 1” in diameter. The gumball wheel (without riser) is able to dispense a slightly larger 1.1” acorn capsule. The adjustable candy wheel is able to dispense items from .50” to .62” is size and can easily be adjusted to control quantity.

Gumball wheel with brush plate and riser

1” gumballs or 27mm bouncy balls
Good for items .76” (1900ct) to 1.0” (850ct) in diameter

Gumball wheel with brush plate without riser

1.1” acorn style toy capsules

Candy Wheel with brush plate

Good for items .50” (8500ct) to .62” (4800ct)
To adjust the quantity, simply adjust the flywheel into the multiple grooves on the underside of the main wheel.


Fully Open	Adjusted Quantity

As you can see, your gumball machine has the ability to dispense a variety of items of different shapes and sizes. Choose an item, the corresponding wheel/brush plate and your machine will begin to show potential!

We are here to assist you any way possible so feel free to visit www.gumball-machine.com or call us at 866-648-6225.

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