How NOT to seperate the wiring from the head to the cabinet

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How NOT to seperate the wiring from the head to the cabinet

This will be a fun weekend project. Someone hacked in half the two main harnesses that go from the head to the body of a Bally Harlem GlobeTrotters. This pic is from the body upright showing the two cable harnesses cut. The sad part is that the game was kept together, the matching head has the cut wires as well.
 

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This will be a fun weekend project. Someone hacked in half the two main harnesses that go from the head to the body of a Bally Harlem GlobeTrotters. This pic is from the body upright showing the two cable harnesses cut. The sad part is that the game was kept together, the matching head has the cut wires as well.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

WTF are people thinking

Good luck to you
 
not stickin up for the guy as well, but I honestly thought about this when i picked up my Eight ball. Fortunately, I was able to get the head to lay down.. Bally apparently didnt think to use Molex connectors and had the head hardwired to the cabinet..
 
not stickin up for the guy as well, but I honestly thought about this when i picked up my Eight ball. Fortunately, I was able to get the head to lay down.. Bally apparently didnt think to use Molex connectors and had the head hardwired to the cabinet..

Not true. The harness can be disconnected at the boards and drop into the bottom cabinet. They don't have a williams style connector right where the head meets the body but it's far from "hard wired".
 
Some people solder the wires at the reg board...then it's hardwired.Must be easier than properly repairing it.Like that stern "Magic" I had....pain in the ass to move.
 
Some people solder the wires at the reg board...then it's hardwired.Must be easier than properly repairing it.Like that stern "Magic" I had....pain in the ass to move.

Bally didn't do that, some other clown did.

Bally did not "hardwire" the heads to the cabinet. That's my point.
 
I saw someone do this a while back to an EM machine. Didn't realize you could unplug them from the head...
 
Well, take the opportunity to wire up some connectors to make it REAL easy to remove in the future if you want.
 
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