Hi Raikus
If SCM-5B opens correctly - If the "Self-Hold-Switch on Outhole-Relay" would be "faulty always closed (bent blades)": The Outhole-Relay would "flatter" (on -> off -> on -> off ...) because SCM-5B opens correctly (Outhole-Relay goes off) -> Score-Motor keeps on turning (wants to get to the end of its 180 degree-turn) - so SCM-5B closes again -> through the "faulty always closed Self-Hold-Switch on Outhole-Relay": current can flow -> Outhole-Relay goes "on" again. So look if the Outhole-Relay "flatters".
I am trying to avoid "digging into the logic of stepping down the Bonus Unit to Zero - then step up one step - and (by the way, by the way) kicking the ball over to the Shooter Lane" ...
You write (post-5): a friends pin - having a big party -> (question ?) NO REPLAYS ON THE COUNTER / NO COINS AT HAND TO THROW IN -> opening the Cash-Door and fumbling on the "Coin-Switch" (?)
Read here: http://www.pinrepair.com/em/index2.htm -> 2c. Before turning ... -> look at the first picture and -> read text after picture-3 -> "beeing romantic" ...
And in the schema at C-3 / C-4 there are ALL switches shown, the switches for to let the Score-Motor run. And at C-2 I see: Wire-yellow -> upwards through closed "Anti-Cheat Switch" upwards to "25 Cent-Switch (a Make and Brake Switch) -> to the right -> wire-Green-Orange -> through a "Switch on 25-Cent-RELAY" -> wire-Orange-Green -> ALSO feeding electricity to let the Score-Motor run.
If (if) your friends have fumbled at the Coin-Door-Switches and have bent blades on that delicate "25 Cent switch": 25-Cent-Relay might be pulling endlessly and through the switch on (pulling) 25-Cent-Relay -> Score-Motor runs. So this is the "background story" to Hi-Fi's tip. Greetings Rolf