Free play on an add-a-ball or novelty EM

Steps

• Find the coin switch wire actuator behind the coin door.
• Bend the actuator so that pressing the coin return button pushes the coin switch contacts together.
• Test: pressing coin return should now start a game. The change is quick and easy to undo, and needs no new holes.

Systems

• Electro-mechanical

Games

• Flipper Cowboy

Source: Repairing Electro-Mechanical (EM) Coin Operated Games to 1978, Part Two, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)