Originally Posted by butterflywing
thee was another machine there that i let slide. it was a larger, heavier machine, pale green. it was GIMBEL, like the old department store. i'm sure it was made for them by another company. i let it go because every moving part was frozen. no matter how hard i tried to move it, i couldn't. it was also in it's cabinet. the machine was very square-ish in shape. he said '54, but thinking back i think later. anyway, gimbel's no longer exists, so i should have taken it.
I can tell you from experience that frozen machines are really hard to break loose especially the later ones. I can get the early versions 1870s to the 1930's unfrozen fairly easily but the later ones with more moving parts and all are a royal pain!!!
Billy