Quoted from Craig:I had a similar issue with a Williams pin last year (and with a Data East before that, come to think of it). It's amazing how much odor a small meltdown can generate. The damage was minimal, but I imagine someone who didn't know better would have thought the problem a lot bigger than it actually was.
I had a coil melt in one of my wms machines. With the amount of smoke coming out I really thought it might have been on fire. And it does stink like hell for a while after.