When the door is closed there should be a metal plate on the coin door that pushes those buttons in.

When con door is open high voltage is turned off for safety. Look at the pictures of a coin door and notice the silver metal piece on the side of the door. Do you have that piece or is your coin door missing it? If it is there you may need to adjust to ensure it presses the switches when closed.

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Connector for a dollar bill validator.

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Greg, please give the tech Wayne a call tomorrow. We will absolutely rectify any situation that arose from the journey to you. That demo man probably has under 150 games played on it. look at the stock flipper rubbers, they look like they have never been used.
Regardless, please speak to wayne in the morning. We will rectify anything that is not working 100%. if I need to hire a tech out there I will. You have a warranty, so do not lose any sleep over it.
You could not find a Demo man in as nice condition as that one if you tried. It is flawless. I'm sure the fix is something very simple.
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You can also pull the switch out, to enable power.
Since there is nothing to close it, this should get you by.
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If the machine was shipped, you may want to look around the bottom of the cabinet and see if it is laying around somewhere or that it didn't come off and get caught up in the wire harness.

Look for a yellow metal clip in the goodie bag or in the cab . This one would be put over the switches.

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As my understanding goes, the "yellow clip" is used when the coin door is open and is for the purpose of activating the power so one doesn't have to hold the switch in whilst in test mode. The coin door should have a plate behind it to do this very job!!

That is true .

Correct, but it is not present on his coindoor, with the actuator, gregdole7 is at least able to play a game.

Fair enough, if it was me i would make up a plate to fit or track down an original part though.

If you pull the top switch, it will allow HV in the game, and since the coin door doesn't have the normal part to push the switch in, even with the coin door closed, you should be able to play a game.

The other switch tells the game that the coin door is open.
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If the coin door is locked there's no danger.

1. Pull the top switch out as Chris indicated.

2. Close and lock the coin door.

3. Power-up and play the game.

The safety aspect is really more for the safety of the machine so that clumsy debuggers don't short coil voltage into the switch matrix and other circuits.

Do the above and if you are concerned about the safety with your kids, pull the key out and put it in a safe place.

The yellow clip is more often than not missing. Out of 20 pins I have 1.

Not missing. Your game doesn't need it because the high power interlock switch can be pulled out. So your game didn't come with one.

The yellow clip only came with a few titles that had the old switch that couldn't be pulled out.

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And one of those games might have been Corvette. Corvette is the most irritating game to debug, especially the jiggling motor assembly because coil power must be on, yet you need to operate the coin door diag switches.
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My Indy came with one

Corvette is one. Judge Dredd is the first game I recall coming with the yellow metal clip.

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Thankfully there has never been a manual error. ( huge sarcasm intended )

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Can you post a picture of the wiring side of the switches ? I wonder if wired wrong or something.

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Why did you disconnect the 4 "cables"?
That's the same as opening the switch, which will CUT power.

At the risk of sounding harsh Greg, you aren't listening.
Pull the switch outward. It will work.
You're a newbie around here. A few of us have been around the block before.
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Pressing in the switch completes the circuit thus turning on the high voltage. Simply removing the wires from the switch will not complete the circuit. Those wires go to some connectors and you must pull the entire switch.

Hopefully you contacted the person who sold you the machine and they are sending you the missing part but a quick solution if you are not comfortable would be to use some electrical tape to hold the button in (basically acting like the yellow service switch activator tool) so you can play while waiting for your new part.

He can play right now...IF he simply pulls that switch outward. I don't mean REMOVE the switch, I mean instead of pushing on the switch, pull on it.
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In case you want to plug it back to how it was before:
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Agree

Thanks Chris, I did not know this. No matter how old I am I learn something new everyday.