Nice. Funny thing is, the actual playfield surface is nicer than mine!

After literal years, I'm finally digging into the "cursed Pinbot" that I was lucky enough to acquire after it passed through three owners who gave up on it. For sure it will get a restoration thread when I get further into the process, but for now, a teaser.

Horribly hacked-up power wiring, connector pins to nowhere, and stretches of electrical tape covering up giant gashes in the insulation. And because no pinball hack is complete without it, brown lamp cords.

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Pinbot's head is too wide to fit through my residential doorway - the only game I own that has this problem - so I had to decapitate it to get it into the workshop. Of course the lamp cord had no connectors, so it got an early snippy-snippy. I also had to remove a fuse block attached to the harness without connectors. Not sure if it's stock or not, will have to do a bit of research as I try to fix it up.

Since taking this photo, I managed to fish out all the wires, pull the transformer, and clean/repair the GI harness pretty nicely.

Don't forget the drywall screws!

Look between the baseplate and the coil bracket.
This hack gives new meaning to the term "matching"!