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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2018, 07:16:51 pm »

Yes, you have to remove the door liner to replace the light switch.
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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2018, 07:19:27 pm »

Yes remove the liner, but be careful, they are very brittle due to age, and may crack on you.  Good looking machine.
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« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2018, 07:59:46 pm »

        Your liner is already cracked and held together by duct tape. It cannot be reused, you must have a replacement handy if you remove it.  darn
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« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2018, 11:25:20 pm »

I would not rule out that gray main door gasket as not being original. I recently acquired a B model that is 100% untouched original with a gray main door gasket.
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« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2018, 02:13:26 pm »

very good you found one, yes, you will have to open the liner at least along the top half in order to get to the switches wiring on the back-side, good news is it's pretty easy to replace, just match the colors & use wire-nuts to splice it in place.

keep in mind that old wiring is sometimes cotton covered & it can be hard to tell the difference between the colors, keep an eye out for the pairs that seem similar, ( dark & dark, lighter & lighter) so if your replacement switch has say two blues & two blacks, just correlate that to say black is darker than blue, so the darker pair of cotton wires will be a match for the black wires & the blue pair for the lighter set of cotton wires, (in this example) hope that kinda helps... Oo
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« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2018, 10:18:25 pm »

The harness looks a little dusty, but doesn't look frayed or in any way degraded. Perhaps it was replaced already.  The previous owner did tell me the power cord was replaced.
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« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2018, 03:39:02 pm »

So this pair of wires that comes off the light harness and goes into the coin mech area and ends in electrical tape.  Any ideas what this is supposed to be for?

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« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2018, 04:58:09 pm »

       The wires used to lead to a heater that would keep the slug rejector from freezing in the winter.

       Seems to me that leaving a machine outside in below freezing weather.......exploding bottles would be a bigger concern.  tounge
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« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2018, 06:25:49 pm »

Your last photo shows the back of the coin return bezel painted red so I'm sure the machine was a re paint at some point.
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« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2018, 07:30:57 pm »

       The wires used to lead to a heater that would keep the slug rejector from freezing in the winter.

       Seems to me that leaving a machine outside in below freezing weather.......exploding bottles would be a bigger concern.  tounge

Fun fact... Actually, the evaporator fan motor keeps the bottles from freezing in cold temperatures, as it produces about 10-watts of heat by itself, plus the compressor only minimally runs in the winter months to keep the bottles chilled but not frozen,  Only in the coldest / sub-zero locations did they add an actual heater inside the bottle compartment to address this issue.
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