Quoted from Lostcause:

I thought about putting decals on but Retro Refurbs has been ignoring people here in the UK for a while so I decided to keep my money and try and repair the original cab artwork with some frisket, black filler, black paint and touch up etc. But actually I’m starting to like the worn look of the cab which is solid, suits the theme plus I’m lazy!!! Somebody will want a mint one no doubt.

Quoted from statictrance:

I've always said - 'the cab doesn't matter if you make sure there's game on either side' (and mine will live chronologically between Swords of Fury and Rocky and Bullwinkle)
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In other news... Started on the flippers today, and they were looking real special (welded base plate, welded coil stop, retapped coil stop nuts digging into the pf wood, janky springs attached to wood screws next to the plate, etc etc... Decided the cost to retrofit it with Fliptronic mechs was a wash since I could pocket the WMS coils and EOSes for other machines.
Anyway - that all hinges on the ability to swap the coil out because of the difference in flip design... But found someone had actually bastardized a WMS coil to work in the DE design! (And it was swelled with a brass coil sleeve, I didn't even know they made those into the 90s/00s!). I'll be calling PBR on Monday
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Quoted from statictrance:

So, Williams (and most other) coils are 'parallel wound' - that's why there are three lugs, and when the EOS trips, it pulls power from one winding (the kick) to the other (the hold)
Data East designed theirs to be one coil, and the flipper board in the cab actually strobes the power high for X milliseconds, then drops the voltage so the coil doesn't overheat to act as the hold. No mechanical EOS, all computer controlled.
In my pic above, you can see someone took the thin red wire from the outer lug and pulled it into the middle. I think that's how they achieved it, but being fair I played like 2-3 games as I was getting the electronics fixed (display was whack, tossed in NVRAM, HV section needed rebuilt due to a leaky capacitor, GI repair and repin)... I couldn't make the jump a single time with how it was wired in here, now it makes even more sense other than old and sloppy