I won't be any help but it's a cool machine & I will watch this one.
I used to like the ones that opened like a chest freezer & you "guided" your bottles through the little maze to get them out after depositing your dime.
Where in Illinois are ya?
TW
Yup. You'll want to replace it with some sort of steel.Started some tearing apart today and found out the inside is lined with galvanized :/ if I'm not mistaken galvanized is a big no no for smokers right?