Hi guys.
I was doing some repairs on my FT and wanted to repair a broken ground braid, aaaand I messed up. I must've short circuited something because the insert lights lit up like Dulles airport in Die Hard 2 and I burnt the plastic off of two cables in the transformers. The amount of smoke was....significant.
Anyway... I made two "repairs". As I didn't have a second machine available to compare, I did some quick image googling and went ahead. The picture attached is where I did my first fix. I'm fairly certain that this braid should be connected all the way. So I added a strip in between the two where they are at their closest. Can someone confirm this is correct?
The second "fix" was on the left side. For some reason, I figured the braid should be attached almost the same as on the right side. The right side runs the braid from the upper right corner (by the ball launch), through the power/transformers/speaker and so on. The braid on the left side looked like it was broken off next to the start button, so I ran a new braid from this corner down to the braid on the left side (where the lamp matrix schematic is). I believe this was the mistake, yes?
I think the machine survived, but I didn't do anymore work. I turned it off and removed the ground braids I added.