Ah, damn.  A decade long run isn&#x27;t bad.<p>Yeah, we had to load gently, and the thermocouple probably needed to be replaced (if you were exploding cans).  The coldest soda in the university though. =)<p>Yes - it was meant for steel cans.  The mechanism at the bottom to output cans was literally an open pair of scissors driven by a giant 120V solenoid.