(Topic ID: 48439)
San Diego, CA
The bumper caps are available through Pinball Resource. The rest is gonna take some digging. Plastics have never been 'commercially' reproduced, but a small batch was made. Keep digging. It's such a good looking game even in the condition you have it.
Thanks for the info!
I did a little research on IPDB and found these compatible games for the lock bar:
Compatible games with Fireball 1968-1973
71 four million b.c.
73 bali-hi
70 big valley
73 circus
73 champ
70 el toro
70 expressway
70 hi-lo ace
71 little joe
72 monte Carlo
72 nip-it
71 odds & evens
71 sea ray
72 space time
72 time zone
71 twin win
69 zip-a-doo
68 alligator
69 bally hoo
68 cosmos
67 dogies
68 gator
68 joust
68 rockmakers
68 safari
Is this what you need?
ebay.com link: Bally Pinball Machine Frame with Glass 60s Early 70s Ted Zale 4 Million BC
Quoted from cjmiller:Is this what you need?
Yep, that's what he needs.
Great price, only 4 hours left. Better snap it up.
Glad I could help.
Now, not to hijack the thread, but if anyone has a set of the prop sticks that hold that glass assembly up, I would appreciate hearing about it. I need a set.
(they attach to the top sides of the cabinet)
Quoted from PACMAN:Thanks guys, i GOT IT!!
I'm glad! Turned out to be a pricy little number, but now you don't have to look anymore and sometimes that's worth a little x-tra.
Yeah some Ebay amateur bid me way up and then left. Probably could have got it for $10 if there wasn't any attention called to it. Oh well.
Quoted from o-din:I'm glad! Turned out to be a pricy little number, but now you don't have to look anymore and sometimes that's worth a little x-tra.
Quoted from PACMAN:Yeah some Ebay amateur bid me way up and then left. Probably could have got it for $10 if there wasn't any attention called to it. Oh well.
That's how Ebay works, The sellers got another story "Gee, for a bit there I thought I was only going to get $10 bucks, but in the end....."
Quoted from PACMAN:Yeah some Ebay amateur bid me way up and then left. Probably could have got it for $10 if there wasn't any attention called to it. Oh well.
$150 is chump change to get glass on a $500 Fireball. That's an extremely hard part to come across.
My Fireball was repainted before I got it and it looks incredible. The previous owner did an incredible job with the webbing and perfectly matched the blue of the cab to the blue on the backglass. It really looks a lot better than that weird blue-green that Fireballs have on their cab.
Yeah, that would be true if it was a $500 Fireball, but it wasn't.
Quoted from Barron:$150 is chump change to get glass on a $500 Fireball. That's an extremely hard part to come across.
My Fireball was repainted before I got it and it looks incredible. The previous owner did an incredible job with the webbing and perfectly matched the blue of the cab to the blue on the backglass. It really looks a lot better than that weird blue-green that Fireballs have on their cab.
5 years later
Wow! Started this five years ago. Finally got a chance to dive into this Fireball!
Since i'll never find a NOS playfield and nobody wants to touch a pf restoration i'm just going to do a partial restoration. Actually more like a deluxe shop job 
PACMAN I am also working on a Fireball 72 and found at least two of the plastics new:
http://www.pinballrescue.net/Plastics_Fireball.html
Not a complete set, but perhaps useful.
Following your thread...
Thanks, but 2 perfectly clear plastics might look weird next to all the yellowed ones.
Quoted from jbovenzi:pacman I am also working on a Fireball 72 and found at least two of the plastics new:
http://www.pinballrescue.net/Plastics_Fireball.html
Not a complete set, but perhaps useful.
Following your thread...
Nice, i'd like to see how yours comes out. I have stencils and have done stencils before (huge pain in the ass) but since the playfield and plastics are less than perfect and no new parts are available i'm going to keep it all original (scars and all).
So there is a design flaw in the design of the ball trap.
It has 2 protruding clear plastics to hold the ball in.
The problem is the clear plastics take a direct hit and eventually get destroyed. Both of mine are.
At some point, someone, probably an operator decided that a nail was the only way to fix this to keep the ball from falling out.
I'm thinking of a better way to do this using posts instead of plastics.
IMG_4080 (resized).jpgQuoted from PACMAN:So there is a design flaw in the design of the ball trap.
It has 2 protruding clear plastics to hold the ball in.
The problem is the clear plastics take a direct hit and eventually get destroyed. Both of mine are.
At some point, someone, probably an operator decided that a nail was the only way to fix this to keep the ball from falling out.
I'm thinking of a better way to do this using posts instead of plastics.
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PACMAN the plastics that I cited earlier from Australia were those ball capture plastics. I do like your post idea, but if you didn’t want to do that you could get those two.
Still just a suggestion.
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