Edina Technical Products Junk Soft Drink Vending Machines Ripoff Plymouth Minnesota

Edina Technical Products is in the business of buying Frigidaire freezers and converting them into soft drink vending machines. They are buying the cheapest freezer they can get (sells for less than $200.00 at Lowes) and after adding some plastic shelves, doors, and coin mechanisms, selling them for vending machines. These machines sell for over $1200.00 and one company, Antares Corporation, uses them in conjunction with their $3,300.00 combo machine.

If the enormouus profit made by Edina is not enough to complain about, then the life of the machine is. These machines often last only seven years or less.

The reason for the short life is the terrible engineering behind the use of these freezer units. These units were designed to be freezers where moisture is not a major problem. However, when converted to refrigerators, moisture commonly collects on the evaporator. Since the evaporator was designed for a freezer and is simply coated with paint, it rusts. When they rust through, the 134a leaks out and cooling stops.

Refrigerators must have galvanized evaporators. Do not buy any vending machine that uses painted evaporators.

While the owner of Edina Technical Products is a millionaire with a home in Florida and race horses. He got it all by ripping off poor hard-working people trying to make a living by selling soft drinks. His machines are junk.

David
Scott Depot, West Virginia
U.S.A.