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Hi all. Love me a bit of Vector. I got a basket case project and luckily a pinball buddy lent me a working one for reference. Here's a couple of pics. Has been slow progress but I have most bits collected now.

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I've checked the 2 machines I have here (and 2 others) in the UK and none of them have this red post, but I will restore it

I restored the Kmiec red post sometime ago JeffZee but forgot to post.

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No idea, I've had 3 original/tatty condition ones through my hands (in UK) and none of them had it. Perhaps it's the stuff of folklore but I like the idea of it being an EM post.

Whilst packing up my loan VECTOR today for a new home I noticed the rebound post between the flippers, my project VECTOR doesn't have this post or a hole in the playfield where it would have been installed. Subsequently looking at online images it seems common to have it or not and the pf diagrams in the manual shows it.

I wonder what the story is here, perhaps it was supplied for operator fit to make the game easier and some just were never fitted, perhaps it got removed from production at a later stage. I'm not keen on screwing new holes in playfields, what's the concensus is it needed?

I'm restoring my Vector project, unfortunately it came with "alien" wiring looms that I'm adapting, the main backbox loom I believe to be from EBD. It is a good starting point and I can sort out most of the deltas by comparing schematics, however I'm stuck on how to route the following Gray/Brown (96) wire which according to the schematics goes from A1J2-23 (the White 24-pin plug to the Aux loom) to MPU A4 J4-16 to HV A3 J3-14

Below are some pics to help identify if - if anybody could help physically trace the wire from the 24-pin plug in their machine so I can install it, or even confirm continuity between those 3 points (schematics can be wrong!) I'd much appreciate it.

The wire shown in the schematic - I don't know where it's jumpered, I have the connection between MPU A4 J4-16 to HV A3 J3-14 (per EBD)
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I need to trace it from the A1J2 connector that plugs in here
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^^^ solved. Bally stuffed two of the Gray/Brown wire onto a single pin at the back cab plug - surely an illegal crimp
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I traced the wire to the pf where it taps via a resistor into the Orange/Blue Switch Strobe 5 line at the X drop target switch. See photo below - I don't understand why an extra wire is connected to the switch matrix but interested if somebody can explain it.
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Cab length inc. shooter < 140cm comfortable, + more if any op fitted skids to back.
Head folded down, widest height bottom of cab to top of bb plinth 55cm, + backbox width 24-27cm, so approx 80cm. In my VW Golf this is the problem and I have to remove the head to transport, length is fine.

I hope that helps