In Progress Transporter the Rescue Clean Me Up Bally

[clarkey]

When I started getting into pinball with the plan to actually own some I was disapointed to find that one of the games I remember playing the most back in the early 90's at a local pub was pretty rare and I had little chance of finding one.

Imagine my surprise / joy when I spotted it in storage at a local pinball company. It was clearly in need of a lot of work (it was in their backlog of pins to restore) but we managed to come to a deal to purchase it as it sat.

The machine was a weird mixture, it was mechanically really really good and the cabinet itself was in really good (but faded) shape, however it was absolutley filthy and had clearly been stored without the glass on at somepoint.

Being inspected upon arrival.



Complete but some pretty bad battery damage.



I wonder how many were actually imported into the UK.



Nice to find a Pinball Paradise sticker.



Poor coin door had seen better days.



Some questionable wiring



Dirt





First propper look at the playfield, pretty complete, new center ramp needed. Thankfully the bottom right flipper bat is actually the unique to this game upper flipper so that's one less thing to find.



Managed to find a NOS translight as it was missing.

 

[John Beveridge]

I had one of these from Colin Chapman over 20 years ago and really liked it. Nice ball lock feature in the Orion ship and a pretty good soundtrack to the game. A game that does not come up for sale often at all. Mine went to Eddie Mole down in Bristol...........a lomg time ago !

 

[DRD]

I have one of these. If you need any help/ photos .... lemme know.

Ramps are available

 

[stumblor]

Awesome game, I played this a lot at TPF. Extremely weird playfield layout but it works.

 

[clarkey]

I had one of these from Colin Chapman over 20 years ago and really liked it. Nice ball lock feature in the Orion ship and a pretty good soundtrack to the game. A game that does not come up for sale often at all. Mine went to Eddie Mole down in Bristol...........a lomg time ago !

Yes I love the soundtrack and the ball lock.

I have one of these. If you need any help/ photos .... lemme know.

Ramps are available

Thanks much appreciated, I have it up and running, just catching up with the pics, most issues I have are board related waiting on a repro one.

Awesome game, I played this a lot at TPF. Extremely weird playfield layout but it works.

Agreed, love playing it.

Filthy but mostly there.



Interesting ball lock mech.




Dirty


Cleaned and waxed



Love the art.



Cleaning up nicely



The art is fantastic imo.

 

[clarkey]

Cabinet stripped back and sanded and painted etc.









Power switch mia.



Better



Decals on and test fitting the playfield



Both displays reflowed and working (sadly not for long as the right one started burning out).







Coil burnt out on first tests.



Backbox rebuilt.

 

[clarkey]

mmm nos



New t moulding, glass and chrome strips.


New cross over ramp, testing all the lights mechs etc.



New coin door

 

[Jay Walker]

Interesting ball lock mech.

On first seeing Transporter, in Deith Leisure's showroom, I thought "that's the lock arrangement from Flight 2000" (albeit taking up much less space, then it occupied a large section of a wide-body playfield).

Have you got shorter Gottlieb legs on it at the moment?

I hadn't thought about the upper flipper, but it seems to be like Swords of Fury; the flipper has the baseplate below the playfield, and the paddle has a much longer shaft. At least it isn't like No Fear, with an extended (and costly) flipper bush.

 

[clarkey]

On first seeing Transporter, in Deith Leisure's showroom, I thought 'that's the lock arrangement from Flight 2000" (albeit taking up much less space, then it occupied a large section of a wide-body playfield).

Have you got shorter Gottlieb legs on it at the moment?

I hadn't thought about the upper flipper, but it seems to be like Swords of Fury; the flipper has the baseplate below the playfield, and the paddle has a much longer shaft. At least it isn't like No Fear, with an extended (and costly) flipper bush.

Yes it's one long flipper with a c clip that rests on a normal bush, there is a guy in America who makes a new one but it's 3d printed and doesn't look like the original so glad I have it.

Yes the legs are just some random ones that came with it, I need to get a set, not sure what are the correct ones for this era, they look like they have half a rib on the brochure.

Cheers

 

[Jay Walker]

With Williams-branded games, the change from 1/2 rib to full rib was with Police Force, the first game I unpacked when new. The following Bally game after Transporter, Elvira and The Party Monsters, is also shown with half ribbed legs on the flyer, whereas the one after that, Mousin' Around, has full ribbed, and chrome at that. So I'd think half ribbed, black/dark grey.

Having mentioned Swords of Fury, I see this game is the same designer and software writer team, Tony Kraemer and Dan Lee. The latter sometimes coded in a display message in response to a slam tilt; with Fire! it was 'That Hurt', and for Swords it was 'Back Off'. Is there one on this game?

 

[clarkey]

With Williams-branded games, the change from 1/2 rib to full rib was with Police Force, the first game I unpacked when new. The following Bally game after Transporter, Elvira and The Party Monsters, is also shown with half ribbed legs on the flyer, whereas the one after that, Mousin' Around, has full ribbed, and chrome at that. So I'd think half ribbed, black/dark grey.

Having mentioned Swords of Fury, I see this game is the same designer and software writer team, Tony Kraemer and Dan Lee. The latter sometimes coded in a display message in response to a slam tilt; with Fire! it was 'That Hurt', and for Swords it was 'Back Off'. Is there one on this game?

Cheers thats really useful, the tilt gives a danger warning, the slam tilt just a weird pattern on the screen and a weird noise of the monster sounding really sad

 

[Jay Walker]

There is something coded in, though. Most games up until then would simply cut out and re-boot on seeing the slam tilt close.

 

[clarkey]

There is something coded in, though. Most games simply cut out and re-boot on seeing the slam tilt close.

Ah gotcha.

 

[clarkey]

Finally able to get the game playing properly with a nice replacement CPU board from the states, really lovely bit of kit.







Repainted and put new stickers on the UN Orion.



Installed art blades.





Just replacement screens and a few flasher issues to do and she will be all done.

 

[Spandangler]

Nice . And good to know replacement boards available