I'm working on a cool old Gottlieb 'Masquerade" at the moment and it's pretty rough... so I looked inside when I started taking it all apart and it appeared that a tech had unwound all the wax twine or lacing that they put the harnesses together with.

Upon closer inspection, I don't think an operator did it... I think a rat ate it all. They didn't eat any of the wire covering on anything.... but neatly ate all the twine so all the wires have came unbunched. I'm currently working through and ziptieing the harness back together as I check each inch of it for bare wires, but has anybody seen that before? Weirdest thing!

Here's some pictures.

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Well that's that. Apparently they love wax, who would have thought? I've had a ton of EM's and have seen wires gnawed on before but for whatever reason this is the first time I've seen one with just the wax lacing gone!

The ends of them all look frayed like they've been nibbled, and then here or there you'll see a little piece of it still attached with both ends looking nibbled... and the paper stapled to the wood has little nibble marks on it. I thought it had just been unwrapped at first but it appears to me that a mouse ate just the wax twine...