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Re: Train Storage Carousel
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Fri, 19 Apr 2002 01:36:33 GMT
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4/18/2002 6:35:20 PM, Chris Magno <cmagno@rogers.com> wrote:
> HI, GANG!!!
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> The short answer is that I never did find out what the computer cans
> were for. (other than the obvious)
I was in a guys shop once and noticed such a garbage can.
So I asked the usual 20 questions. Starting out..
Er.. Are you serious? This isn't a prop for some movie?... :-)
Anyway, turned out that the point of the machines was to
be able to compact the garbage on the fly so to speak.
That way you could get a lot more trash in them before
some poor sot had to come by and clean them out.
They were PLC based and had a bunch of safety
features that were designed to make sure that the
only thing that got compacted was the garbage.
He was building a batch of them for some company like
McDonalds.
This was a few years back and I have lost track of him
since.
He also did some FX work and the last I heard, he
was making those long metal fingers/cutters that were
used in some movie in Toronto.
You'd know better than me.
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| (...) Bummer. That would so rock if it were. I wonder what the biggest item ever vended via a vending machine was. (I've seen a LEGO(r) vending machine in Oz as you know, cool robot arm and all) The idea of vending a full size car is so darn silly (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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