Help needed with Bimbo the dancing clown machine

Ed LI NY

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I finally got my hands on a dancing Bimbo machine, but it needs some internal help.

Like many others, the game was originally missing its Bimbo 8 track with the needed sensors to turn game on and off with the songs.

like many others, a previous owner made a work around so that any tape could play....though it wouldn't turn on and off as needed. This means they made it that the buttons to make him dance, and the tape player always had power.

ive sourced a bimbo tape with sensors, but have to get the game back to original for the tape sensors to work as they should. I tried getting things back to stock, but I'm stuck on getting the coin up to activate the tape to play.
I can get the game and music to turn on by holding down the right relay (if looking at the relays via back door), but I can't get it to work via coin/start.

there is a TON of hacked wires, and NEW wires spliced in to other wires, as well as old wires removed from areas and new ones put in their place going to places they were not meant to.

long story short, I'm in need of a wiring schematic and/or some good pics of the correct wiring going in to all 4 Jones plugs and 2 relays.

ive tried to find a schematic or pics of the area, but I've come up short.

can anyone help? I'd be very appreciative for any help in getting this odd ball machine back up and running (or should I say get this clown back to dancing).

thanks in advance,
—Ed
 
I wanted/still want one of these, congrats on the pick up! here's a thread I started a while back.
 
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