Hi,
I've got a friend that owns his own Pepsi machine. I has been left unplugged since the compressor stopped working years ago. It's the sort of machine that has a screw-in locking mechanism. I can get it unscrewed (I can feel the threads spinning on the top of the hole), but then I can't get the door open. I've tried hammering it open, and there's a little slack, but there's definitely something still latching the door. Any ideas? I'll try to get model numbers and post them soon (meant to do that this morning and forgot.) Thanks for any input you can offer me. I'm stumped.

I don't know why no one has mentioned this already, but it might be that the inner door is stuck and won't let the outer door come out. That happens to me every so often, and all I do to get the door open is to grab hold of the delivery chute door (the little door that pops open when the soda falls into the delivery bay) and pull hard (of course after spinning the T-lock all the way out).

I'm not sure why you think homing to 6 o'clock is important when you have a guranteed vend. You will have to turn off the ivend or sensit then the motor will operatte off the motor switch. Just a thought.
Vend1ng

With some items, if the spiral does not return to 6 o'clock (or whatever is the most optimal spiral position for that item), the next item up after the vend might not be held securely by the spiral and as a result will be more likely to fall to the delivery bay with just a slight shake of the machine. The next customer will not be cheated because of the guaranteed delivery feature, but I'll lose an item without being paid. I noticed this once when a Twix fell down after a slight shake. These two machines are my first ones with iVend and Sensit, so I'm not by any means an expert on iVend and Sensit and I may be missing something. However, I also have an AP Studio 2D with GoldenEye that does not have this annoying problem. Is it just the nature of the beast, a design flaw, that one must live with if you want iVend or Sensit?