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#150563 Mon Aug 31 2009 03:54 PM
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Hi everybody, I have seen postings on here from people who repair Vedeer Root computers, could anyone help me with contact information for the people who do those repairs? Thanks Mike


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...look for 'jkyocom' here on Oldgas, and send him an email or PM - Joe does a great job, that's his thing, and he loves a challenge...


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I too will also attest to Joe's talents. I have a Tokheim 36b I’m slowly but surely restoring, and bought a restored computer from Joe. I will say you get an awful lot of product for the money spent! It will propel your pump restoration to the next level!
Joe obviously loves what he does!
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I agree Joe's your man.
Easily accesible too.

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Thanks for your help everyone. Mike


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No Club Card, secret handshake,or password...
I will rebuild one for anybody. wink wink
Starting at $150.00 & a rebuildable core. cool


Veeder Root Rebuilds.....since 1987
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I have not used Joe yet - but I WILL be using him on my wayne 60 computers. Nothing is better then a great new looking and working computer.

I have done to many pumps where we had to strip out the gears, paint up, and glue the number wheels in place so they would not spin because the computer was all messed up and not working when we got it. I have gotten very good at rigging the computers to still have the drop down covers and feel like it resets with the bell ring, it just sucks to not have the numbers spin at the same time.

It is GREAT that we finaly have someone that can fix these things.


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22 years ago my brother found an A-38 with great SINCLAIR H-C glass. At that time we had some NOS A-38 parts, it turned out NICE.
As part of the restoration, I rebuilt the computer. It was the first time I had tried. I cleaned it up, and changed the wheels in it.
It only took a few hours, but it took another 10 hrs to get it to work right. It HAD to work because we had planned on motorizing it.

I started rebuilding computers to put into the pumps I was restoring and selling at the time.
It was still several rebuilds later before I understood what I was doing. grin
I just couldn't stand the idea of putting that much work into a pump and NOT having a good clean WORKING computer.
Even in this bad pic you can tell the wheel #'s are as white as the door & face.


Here is one from back in the day. ALL original parts, glass & signs. If I ever get some time to scan some of my pics !!!!!
I stripped, sandblasted, filled, painted, assembled, sold. I beleive it sold for $1200.00 20 yrs ago.
I have only restored about a dozen or so pumps.
I enjoyed the finished product more than doing the work, so I stuck with rebuilding computers, and buying and selling pumps & parts.

Actually it was back then that I first tried to build a clock. I retried the idea a few years ago and finally got it right. That, in turn, lead me here.
I have been working on components for gasoline pumps for 28 yrs now..... Since I was 19 cool
ALL of my pump exploits started 'cause I needed a job and a buddy of mine got me on where he worked.
I started off rebuilding nozzles.
I wonder what my life would have been like if I had not have fallen in love with gas pumps???


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Joe, You'd be a FULL TIME Plumbing Contractor Making Good Money ! LOL

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Joe, Sent mine off to you today, let me know when you receive it.

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I have to ask Joe, when do you think you will finally run out of parts to do the rebuilds? Is that something that will unquestionably happen in the near future?


Travis
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Just got mine back yesterday. Joe does great work and packs them so good that even UPS can not damage them.


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SHHH! Don't want UPS to know that something we value was delivered w/o being Damaged.

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Guys, hands down, Joe is THE BEST!!! Dave Folck

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Well DB, since new construction is almost non existant, and money being so tight, most folks are trying to repair stuff themselves....The plumbing biz is DEAD right now. The computer/clock biz is keeping me afloat right now.
The plumbing/electrical supply house here is talking about closing on SAT due to such a dramatic drop in sales. It costs him more in overhead than what he is bringing in on SAT.

Travis....
I have been tearing computers apart for years and as long as I can find cores I will always have parts.
I have buckets of used parts. And boxes of new parts.
There are just a few that I need from time to time, I can rebuild every part, so I should be good for a while.
There will be parts leftover when I die.


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