I have a Bally Escape From The Lost World. I noticed that some of the fuses on the power supply board and the fuse board on the left side of the head were jammed too far into the clips. I thought that they might have been the wrong fuses but on closer inspection I saw that the clips were soldered in inside out so that the fuses would not "seat" in the clips where they belonged. I can see that with regular play these fuses will come loose and fall out, and the tension is gone from the clip. I'm going to have to pull both boards, remove and install at least a dozen new clips. These are factory installed, not replacements.

Has anyone else run across this condition?

Thanks for the reply. I think that I would classify that service bulletin fix as a "hack", although I understand the reasoning. I'm just going to bite the bullet and fix them the right way: remove and replace. I guess that when Bally was about to be bought out by Williams in 1988, quality control was the first to go.

Here's your pics. The first three pics are from the power supply board. FC2B has both clips inside out, FC5B is correct and FC4B, FC7B and FC8B are backasswards. Of the 16 clips on the P/S, 5 are correct.

The fourth and fifth pics are of the 3/4 amp fuse panel. The fourth shows six pairs in a row where one or both clips are wrong. The last pic shows the fuse on the left jammed into a backwards clip, the one on the right is correct. On this board, 15 of the 32 clips are inside out.

Hmmm.

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Oh, that's nice, the pics came out in opposite order. Jeez, even my pics are backwards!

Well, perhaps more than a few seconds. I do have to desolder and resolder 52 separate joints