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In this restoration I make a trip back in time to my childhood, because I restore an old gumball machine. Many years ago, similar gum dispensers hung on the walls of houses and you could get candy from them, I was there many times :) When I saw this, I'll call it, antique gumball machine on Ebay, I had to buy it and make a restoration video. ▬ What did I do ?! ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Of course, the first step is to disassemble the old gum dispenser, which I did in 2 stages. First the dispenser itself then the coin mechanism. I remove most of the old paint with paint stripper. Using slag as a blasting medium, I blast off the rest and also so roughen the surface for the new paint. After that I spray primer on the parts, roughen the dried primer with sandpaper and paint everything in red colour. The flap for the gum outlet is aluminium, which I dent out and sand with sandpaper for a great new look. The parts from the coin mechanism are only washed, the
