Ever known an OPs to cut up a coin door's wiring?

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I'm on the last stage of bringing my Asteroids Deluxe back to life. Now I'm working on the coin door. Nothing worked... test switch, lights, coin switches...

The reason was obvious. Someone had gone in there and specifically cut 5 or 6 wires. 1 was ground, 1 was part of the coin circuit, two were part of the lights circuit, and a couple more.

Since the story of my Asteroids Deluxe is that it lived in a Church rec room for a while, I'm wondering if the OP that sold it to the Church cut all this stuff so it wouldn't take quarters.

But that's just pure speculation. Anyone ever hear anything that might support this? Or alternative reasons it may have been cut? (other than some wacko got his/her hands on it)

... Altan
 
Well, I've heard of folks trying to sell games that work perfectly, then suddenly after somebody takes a quick look at them they are suddenly 'broken'. Of course the prospective buyer tries to talk the price down accordingly, while the now confused seller is caught off guard and accepts the now lower price.

-Hans
 
Ops cut the wiring harness for all kinds of reasons. A lot of times they will cut the light wires because one or more of the sockets have gone bad and were blowing fuses. Cutting wires was easier than finding and fixing the real problem. They also tended to cut the coin lockout wires so that kids would lose quarters even when it was powered down. A lop of ops looked on those as "free" quarters. They didn't show on the coin counters so they didn't need to be accounted for.

ken
 
There was an OP here in NJ that use to take the coin door completely off of every cabinet they sold for home use a tinted bezel in it`s place. That was before they stopped doing home sales & now throw everything they won`t be using in a dumpster...
 
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ops cut wire and fool with the coin doors so its harder for the games to come back into thier market in competition with them, chuck e cheese takes this idea so far as to destroy all thier old games so they wont end up in the local market in competition with chucky
 
Most of the cabinets that I've had the (mis)fortune of picking up have had their coin door wiring all hacked to hell.

I kind of assumed it was the norm.
 
Ops hacked wiring for all kinds of reasons. I have seen small lengths of wire cut out of otherwise intact harnesses for seemingly no reason. An old game sitting in a warehouse can easily be seen as a 'source of wire' and then all bets are off!

Removal of mechs and wiring the coin acceptor wires to a button was pretty common for games being sold for home use.
 
Almost every game I've bought from ops usually have the whole coin door removed, or mechs, or harness/mechs/etc removed.. Always the locks are gone.. 2 reasons, they don't want you to put them on route or they don't want you to make copies of the key/locks. As most of them use one or two keys for all their games.. And they protect that bigtime. I once found a key in a game bought from an op.. He called me the next day and then came for it..

Paranoid yes, but having access to every game on route when they are trying to squeeze a little profit margin.. I totally understand..
 
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