Safe Cracker
Bally, 1996There is a metal lanyard that is used for support when you fold down the translite. When the translite is in the upright position, the lanyard has a lot of slack and can move around inside the backbox. If it happens to come in contact with the wrong thing ... POOF, you just fried your game. I used some heat shrink tubing to insulate the entire length of the lanyard. In my opinion, everyone who owns a Safe Cracker should perform this mod.
Quoted from TaylorVA:Nice. What diameter did you use?
I believe it was 3/16". I was just barely able to squeeze the loop at the end of the lanyard through it. I used 6" pieces and overlapped them by about an inch.
Quoted from ShootAgain:Thanks for the tip. Have you ever heard of that happening before? Seems possible.
To be honest, it wasn't entirely my idea. I was talking to a guy at Expo about how I had recently purchased a Safe Cracker, and he mentioned to me that you have to be careful with that lanyard. I came up with the idea of using heat shrink tubing to insulate it.
After seeing this post I went and checked mine. Interestingly enough mine already has a vinyl coating on it. Mine is a prototype but surely they didn't do this as a cost cutting measure, I mean you save $.10 a foot on the cable at best.
In the picture you can see the coated part and the uncoated loop. SDC10276.JPG
Quoted from Marc:After seeing this post I went and checked mine. Interestingly enough mine already has a vinyl coating on it. Mine is a prototype but surely they didn't do this as a cost cutting measure, I mean you save $.10 a foot on the cable at best.
Interesting. I don't believe mine was coated like that. If it was, I guess it can't hurt to double up on the insulation. 
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