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The Pinball Medic Manufactured
Yellow Jacket Pinball Dolly
If you are needing to move a large number of pinball games or just one by yourself, PINBALL MEDIC makes what might be the easiest to use pinball dolly in the galaxy.(tm)
Priced at $335 plus $70 shipping and handling, Dolly Customization Options costs extra.
Pinball Medic has switched to making dollies in bulk lots two times per year (summer,fall).
We will no longer be accepting custom built dolly orders and will only sell what we have in stock. All completed dollies, with their options, will be listed on this page as soon as we have them built.
We can now offer shipping to most destinations in the U.S.A. Payment is due after the dolly is in inventory and has been ordered.
Replacement YJ dolly parts can still be ordered via the dolly order form.
Yellow Jacket DOLLY ORDER FORM
Multiple Dolly Purchase or Bulk Pricing is now availableCustom Dolly Enhancement OptionsALL YELLOW JACKET DOLLIES HAVE A LIMITED 90 DAY WARRANTY
Warranty replacement and dolly parts repair log
Pinball Dolly TESTIMONIALS  Pinball Dolly SHIPPING METHODS
Our discontinued Billiard and Pool Table Dolly can be found here The hydraulic Yellow Jacket pinball dolly offers superior performance over the classic 'gurney' style pinball lifts costing up to $480.00.
Optional Dolly Equipment, Dolly Enhancements and Replacement Parts Sections have been added to provide additional functionality and construction customizations to our state of the art pinball dolly.
Fact: Most damage to side art, score board & playfield glass, coin door and other hard to repair or replace game parts is caused by the moving of the pinball game.
A custom built dolly designed to move nothing but pinball can limit the possibility for game damage and makes moving a 350 pound game quick and painless. |
See our original dolly at work PHOTOSTo further reduce shipping, manufacturing costs and dolly weight - Four inch wheels are now the stock wheel size.
 We are changing to a ' bulk assembly line manufacturing' process instead of a 'build after ordered' processing to shorten the delay between the ordering and the shipping of our state of the art pinball dollies.
Dolly batches will be made at even intervals throughout the year. Only finished dollies will be able to be ordered after we build up our inventory. No dolly will be shipped until we receive full payment.
Dolly customizations can be ordered for now, however, the dolly's wheel size and customizations will eventually be limited to our finished dolly and option parts inventories.
Help protect your game investment with a Pinball Medic manufactured Yellow Jacket Pinball Dolly.
| Current Inventory of Completed Dollies | | Lot/Quantity | Enhancement Options | | 0 | WS=5",PTW,TT,CH,PTW |
Dolly construction will now be twice a year.
Our inventory, with dolly enhancement options, will be listed here as soon as they are manufactured.
Dolly Option AbbreviationsPTW=Protective Top Wood WS=Wheel Size TT=Tilting Top*
CH=Custom Handle* PT=Prototype* NP=Not Painted "=Inch
CCFW=Curb Climbing Front Wheels* *Option Not Available | |
Tested to fit under the following manufacture's pinball games:
      Gottlieb, Williams, Bally, Stern, Chicago Coin, Data East / Saga Pinball Games
DOLLY FEATURES
 Using hydraulic lift, the Yellow Jacket pinball dolly stops the arcane practice of using the operator's weight to lift the pinball machine and makes it possible to lift and move even the heaviest
of electromechanical pinball machines. Hydraulics allow for very smooth and gentle set-downs. High hydraulic dolly lift height of up to 31 inches (variable dolly lift height - measured from ground level to bottom of pinball) with optional 5 or 8 inch sized wheels allows for effortless and stable loading
of a pinball onto a medium sized pickup truck. No more lifting the pinball off the dolly; just roll the Yellow Jacket pinball mover up to the back of the truck and slide it on.  The Yellow Jacket's lift mechanism and center
of gravity are located near the base of the dolly. This produces a low center of gravity for very stable dolly operation - in spite of the dolly's compact footprint.
Dolly can be used as a pinball repair table. This dolly can provide a height adjustable platform for doing pinball game or play field repair. Totally lowering the dolly insures the pinball will not slide off of the dolly. A fully lowered pinball with its legs removed can be safely and easily rolled around a repair shop or game room.  The Yellow Jacket uses the standard industrial pinball dolly width, large wheels and a low center of gravity - insuring tilt free operation.
Total Dolly Load Weight Capacity = 1200 lbs (using 4 or optional 5 inch wheels). This dolly can easily support the heaviest of four player electro-mechanical pinball game weighing in excess of 350 pounds.
The standard dolly width insures the dolly will roll between the front legs of a pinball for easy dolly positioning.  Removable Lift and Lower Control Handles - The lifting handle
only protrudes from the coin door end of the pinball approximately five inches and does not interfere with the dolly operator's legs. This feature eliminates the "shin bruising" caused by the stepped
on lifting bar used on other dollies and increases the Yellow Jacket dolly's ease of use.
ALL control handles can be removed and reapplied during dollied game transportation to avoid any unwanted handle to operator interaction.
  Built using LARGE 4 inch solid metal roller bearing hub and lined rubber tire wheels. All wheel options use solid airless hard rubber lined tires for easy, scratch free movement including over hardwood floors and thick carpet.
Tire air is never required with any size wheel we provide for this dolly.
Dolly Wheel Options: This dolly is made with stock four inch wheels. Optional 5 and even huge 8 inch wheels can be installed. Optional wheel sizes provide the largest rubber lined wheels available on a retail marketed pinball dolly.
Upper rail assembly anti sway bars have been added to decrease front to back game motion when moving a pinball and to further steady the dolly. This helps to
insure a heavily loaded dolly will not sway when pushed by the operator. This added assembly provides both a clean look and easier dolly use.  The very tight turning radius, small footprint and large wheel size of the Yellow Jacket pinball dolly provides for a faster and easier job when positioning a game
or rolling a dolled pinball onto a lift gate; compared to the old design and longer "gurney" styled dolly. This saves valuable time when loading a large number of games onto a box truck, especially if the truck uses the small width "hide-away" lift gate.
 The dolly's sturdy metal frame allows for easy tie-down use with no need to adjust the tie-downs when raising or lowering the
pinball game on the dolly. Tie-downs help to make the moving of pinball's up/down steep and rough inclines quick and easy.
Note: Ratcheting Tie-Downs can be purchased at most building supply houses or hardware stores and are NOT included with the dolly.
Padding must be provided between a folded down backbox and the playfield glass guides or crimping might result to the glass guides when the pinball machine is dollied or when straps are used. The tie-down's metal mechanism must also be padded to protect the game's side-art.
Cardboard will work fine for this padding.
Hydraulics allow a pinball to be lowered or raised in stages. In contrast, the 'gurney' styled dollies only allow for
fully raise or lowered dolly operation). Staged Lifting and Lowering increases the Yellow Jacket dolly's operational safety as surrounding obstacles and dolly roll
potential can be judged during the pinball dolly's lift & lowering operation and rectified prior to damaging any dollied pinball game, expensive coin-op arcade equipment nearby or overhead fans.  The Yellow Jacket uses Hydraulics to lift the pinball game. Other commercial pinball dollies use the dolly operator's body weight and/or arm strength and
mechanical advantage to lift the pinball game. On the old 'gurney' style of dolly the dolly operator stood on a lifting bar. The operator had to be 'caloricly gifted' to provide enough weight to lift the pinball, be able to stand on one leg and push down on the lifting bar - all at the same time. The obsolete lifting bar usually interferes
with the dolly operator's legs while walking and can do damage to the front pinball legs.
The 'Large Operator Requirement' of other coin operated game dollies and the lifting bar have all been eliminated on the Yellow Jacket pinball dolly. Using Hydraulic lifting, this dolly is completely 'gender neutral' and can be used effectively and safely by both men and women. Industrial High Quality hand or foot pumped and released Hydraulic system insures years of trouble free operation.
Without further need to lift and move heavy coin-op equipment by hand, this dolly will greatly reduce back Injuries and damage to coin-op equipment.
Wheel sizes can be special ordered from 3, 4 (stock size), 5 and 8 inch diameter.
Four and five inch wheels provide the SAME total dolly load weight capacity. Five inch optional wheels provide higher clearance, slightly easier roll over thick carpet and an one inch increase in Total Dolly Lift Height.
See Dolly Options Wheel and Dolly Specs Chart and Custom Ordered Wheel Chart at the bottom of this page to determine a dolly's Maximum Load Weight Capacity, shipping weight and Total Lift Height by wheel size.
Low minimum dolly height of 17 3/4 inches (optional 18 3/4 with 5 inch and 19 1/4 inches minimum height with 8 inch wheels - even lower when 3 inch wheels are used). This pinball transporter will fit under all pinball machines including under old and new style pinball games with short length legs. Note: Old Gottlieb wide-body pinball games have short length legs on the front - The Safe Cracker pinball has unusually short legs but can still be dollied by the Yellow Jacket. Unique dolly design helps hold the pinball from sliding off the dolly when the dolly is fully lowered (game's legs removed). This mechanism is automatically released when the game
is raised to facilitate loading a pinball onto a truck or when sliding the pinball game off the dolly and onto the machine's back for storage. An Optional Pinball Tilting mechanism is coming soon.
 The inherent "Self Leveling" design of the dolly's Quad Lifting Arms insures the lifted pinball machine rides
flat on the dolly even down steep inclines and uneven terrain - with the backbox installed, folded down on the play field or removed.
A small, compact footprint allows the transportation of both the pinball dolly and multiple pinball machines in the same medium sized truck with room to spare. Also for easy dolly storage under an operating pinball.
The Small footprint and dolly transporting ease of this pinball dolly helps commercial arcade sites, shop operators, coin-op route and home game room owners without large and expensive box trucks or limited storage space. You can't get this space saving (without sacrificing stability) feature with any other pinball dolly.
Solid hardwood slide rails on the top of dolly will not scratch the bottom of a game. Allow for easy operator removal of a pinball off the dolly for both truck Loading / Unloading
and for placing a pinball on its back for storage (pinball tilt dolly unloading). For an even easier time loading and unloading a pinball that has been stored in its upright position, See our new Tilting Top dolly customization option at the bottom of this page.
Welded using 70,000 PSI welding material for solid weld construction and superior strength / durability.
Constructed with thick angle iron and uses a strong metal square frame. Built to take years of hard use. Removable and Extendable Raise & Release control handles for ease of operation and easy dolly storage under a pinball.
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| YELLOW JACKET PINBALL DOLLY "What might be the Easiest Pinball Dolly to use in the Galaxy"(TM) |
Stock Dolly Specs, Special Order Wheels & Wheel Configuration Information
The Yellow Jacket Dolly's basic dimensions.
Dolly is measured with stock 4 inch wheels. The removable control handles are not included in the dolly's dimensions |
Dolly Frame Dimensions Length 31 3/4 inches
Width 16 inches Standard width of all commercial pinball dollies measured at main metal frame. |
Lift Height
17 3/4 (minimum) 29 3/4 (maximum) Measured in Inches |
Dolly Weight Fully assembled dolly - 86 pounds Stock 4 inch wheels
Shipping Weight
Fully assembled dolly - 91 pounds Shipping crate included in weight |
SPECIAL ORDER WHEELS & WHEEL CONFIGURATION INFORMATION
Pinball Medic can customize the wheel types and sizes installed on any dolly we manufacture. |
Yellow Jacket Dolly Maximum Load Weight Capacity and Lift Height (Min. - Max.)
See wheel descriptions at bottom of this page. |
Wheel Size (inches - diameter) | Wheel Load Capacity (each wheel) | Total Dolly Load Weight Capacity | Minimum Dolly Height (ground level to top of dolly in inches) |
Maximum Lift Height of Dolly (ground level to top of dolly in inches) |
| 8* No longer offered | 450 lbs | 1350 lbs | 19 1/4 | 33 1/4 |
| 5 | 330 lbs | 1200 lbs | 18 3/4 | 30 3/4 |
4 stock wheel size | 330 lbs | 1200 lbs | 17 3/4 | 29 3/4 |
| 3 | 275 lbs | 1100 lbs | 16 3/4 | 28 3/4 |
*Special Note Regarding 8 inch wheels - Shipping method and costs have changed to $80 per dolly due to the 100+ lb. weight of an eight inch wheeled pinball dolly. 8 inch wheel option requires extensive modification of our stock dolly frame and the price of this option reflects the added labor and parts costs. |
| Custom wheel size and type - Additional costs per dolly - Shipping Cost Increases |
Wheel configuration example - installing custom 5 inch sized wheels.
4 or 3 inch wheels - no extra cost
5 inch wheels - Additional $15 per dolly Option will slightly increase total dolly weight. No effect on shipping costs.
8 inch wheels* - Additional $115 per dolly Shipping costs increase to $80 per dolly for this option. This option is no longer offered.
Curb Climbing Front Wheels - Large 8 to 10 inch diameter solid rubber front wheels are being adapted to fit on our stock Yellow Jacket main metal frame to make this dolly able to go over very large obstacles like a street curb. The pinball will have to be strapped to the dolly before this wheel option will be of any benefit.
Pinball Medic is very near the completion of the test phase of these climbing wheels. The estimated cost of this option is $25 with an additional shipping box and shipping expenses required for these heavy wheels. With the oversized 5 inch wheel option, the dolly will have an inch difference in highth between the front and the back of the dolly (back of dolly higher then the front.). This should not cause any issues with the use of this dolly. The custimer is responsable for attaching the two front wheels using the provided 5/8" bolts and lock washer. Currently the climbing wheels option is not available for order.
Design Note: Our Coin Operated pinball dollies are normally constructed with two straight non-swivel wheels on the front of the dolly and two swivel wheels on the rear (rear=control lever end of dolly). Rear mounted swivel wheels allow the placing of a pinball machine between two other pinball games when maneuvering space is at a premium, provides dolly operator with complete controll of the stearing of the dolly and a very tight turning radius.
A dolly with four swivel wheels is hard to move back and forth because swivel wheels tend to "lock-up" and stop turning with this kind of motion. This is the reason Pinball Medic uses two straight wheels at the front and two swivel wheels at the back of the dolly as the stock wheel configuration.
The customer must request the wheel type and size customizations when ordering a dolly and reimburse Pinball Medic for the additional parts, labor and shipping costs of a custom wheel configuration.
Stock 4 inch diameter wheels (left wheel in photo) - Offer less total dolly weight then the 5 inch size wheels with only an inch decrease in Total Dolly Lift Height. Allows the dolly to easily fit under very low clearance pinball games (Safe Cracker pinball) or a wide body Gottlieb pinball with short front legs (Gottlieb's Roller Disco).
5 inch wheels (middle wheel in photo) - This size of wheel provides easy dolly maneuvering over the thickest of shag carpeting and high ground clearance for clearing dolly obstacles. This wheel size is larger then the 'optional large wheel kits' of any industrial pinball dolly on the market today. A five inch wheeled dolly will still fit under a pinball game and it only increases the cost of a dolly by $15.
4 & 5 inch wheel Note: Four inch wheels have the SAME Wheel Load Capacity as five inch wheels. The Total Dolly Load Capacity is not affected by installing four or five inch wheels on a dolly.
Four inch sized dolly wheels can improve the compatibility between the dolly and its operator as they decrease the total dolly weight without sacrificing the easy thick carpet roll through provided by the five inch wheels.
3 inch wheels - (not in wheel size photo) Offer the lightest dolly weight of any wheel option and will not increase the cost of the dolly.
Note: Two inch wheels are the standard size wheel on other commercial quality pinball dollies.
Wheel Replacement: All wheels frames are welded directly to the metal dolly frame.
The same sized metal wheel with rubber lined tire, bearings and wheel mounting bolt can be replace with minimum effort, however, wheel sizes can't be changed after the dolly has been manufactured..
All wheel prices represent the standard wheel configuration of 2 straight wheels on the front and 2 swivel wheels on the back of the dolly.
NO part of any 8 inch wheel can be ordered or replaced. Pinball Medic installs only airless hard rubber lined wheels on any dolly we manufacture. Tire inflation is never required. |
| Optional Dolly Equipment & Customizations |
All dolly customization options will be on the dolly order form
Dolly and Pinball game protecting Hard Wood mounted to the top of a dolly. This option protects both the top of the dolly and the bottom of the pinball from scratches. The optional protective hard wood will cost $15 per dolly.
Eight Inch Wheel Sized Yellow Jacket Pinball Dolly Under a game. This option is no longer being offered, but may return on other dolly modles being made and tested by Pinball Medic.
8 inch wheels (right wheel in photo of wheels) - Only through extensive dolly modification (without sacrificing the dolly's low center of gravity and dolly stability) could this huge size of wheel be installed on a Yellow Jacket pinball dolly and still let it fit under all used and new pinball games.
Street curbs, highly offset door jams and even off-roading will not be a problem with this incredibly high ground clearance dolly. The two box shipping method and dolly assembly are mandatory with this wheel option.
Even with huge eight inch wheels a control handle equipped dolly can be stored completely under an operational game without taking up any extra home game room space.
 Pinball Medic has stopped all development on the Tilting Top option. We are changing dolly manufacturing methods and design and have stopped all dolly option development to complete these manufacturing changes. For the near future, the Tilting Top and eight inch wheel options are not longer offered.
Tilting Top - A new option that will be available for our pinball dolly. This dolly function enhancement allows a stored upright pinball to be placed on and taken off the dolly with ease. All dolly wheel sizes will be able to support this dolly enhancement soon.
Note: An up righted pinball is one that is sitting on its back end with its legs removed. It is usually stored this way to decrease the game's storage space footprint.
The upper support rails of this newly designed tilting top dolly are made to tilt up and be used like a four wheel hand or refrigerator dolly. The dolly can now be used to place an up righted pinball onto the top of the dolly without the need to physically pick up the game and set it down on a dolly. The dolly does all the work for you and can even place the pinball back down on the ground in the upright position with ease. The tilting top dolly can be locked into its normal operating position fully loaded with a game and can operate normally as a lifting pinball dolly after the Tilting Top operation has been completed. Game holding straps will never have to be adjusted even when the pinball is tilted, lifted or moved by the dolly.
We make moving pinball games easy!
Yj dolly fully raised 31 inches (measured from the ground to the bottom of the pinball game. Dolly in photo uses five inch wheels).
This dolly will lift much higher then the old 'Gurney' style of pinball dolly. It's also very stable when fully raised.
It also has a mechanism to stop a legless pinball from sliding on the dolly when it is fully lowered.
The dolly can be shipped with the largest available wheels on a retail marketed pinball dolly (5 inch wheels and 8 inch wheels).
Each wheel uses hardened roller bearings and hard rubber lined scratch free metal wheel hubs.
Dolly fully raised showing use of an optional tie-down strap.
Straps (not included) help when moving a pinball down hills or on ruff and rocky dirt roads The straps do not have to be adjusted when lowering or raising the pinball game.
Note: The Backbox does not have to be removed to safely transport a pinball machine using this dolly. It was simply removed in this photo to make its size smaller. Removable Lift Control Handle only protrudes five inches and will not interfere with the dolly operator's legs or walking ability.
All control handles can be removed and reattached on a loaded dolly at anytime to avoid any unwanted handle to operator interaction. The lift handle (long handle seen above) is used to effortlessly position the dolly under the game.
The next five photos below were supplied by a customer and show our pinball mover, a hand truck dolly, a Star Trek Next Generation (STNG) pinball and even a full sized upright video arcade game loaded in a tiny truck bed. This truck has a cab and a very short length bed and was still able to fit all these games and dollies inside.
Pinball Medic can't count how many trips our dolly has saved us because of its small footprint. We would have had to leave paid for games behind if we used another pinball dolly.
The only thing we wished this customer had done was to pad the tie-down strap mechanism running across the side art of the Star Trek pinball. Otherwise, he did a great job loading all of these games and dollies (x2) into a very tiny truck bed. We also noticed he completely blind folded Captain Pecard. Leaving us to believe "Number One" had to make it so! That's never a good thing to do.
Optional Tie-Down strap (not supplied with dolly or by Pinball Medic). The tie-down does not have to be adjusted when the pinball is raised or lowered when operating the Yellow Jacket pinball dolly. A hold-down strap is recommended when using the dolly on rough or uneven terrain. Also, when you need to lift the front wheels off the ground to easily clear a curb.
"Scotty, I've got to have this pinball transporter now!"
Our pinball transporter makes loading a game into a truck a one person job!
The high lift height of this dolly makes it easy to either slide the pinball off the dolly or place it on its back to save space in a small truck bed. Both of these procedures can be done using only one person.
NOTE: Remember to remove the strap before sliding the pinball off the dolly.
The new 8 Inch wheels can lift a game almost a meter and can accommodate larger sized pick-up trucks with high tail-gate heights.
These eight inch diameter wheels are so large our stock four inch wheeled dolly frame can roll under the 8 inch wheeled dolly.
We have managed to fit (without damaging the games) three up righted pinball's (one a wide body pin), a full sized upright arcade game and a Yellow Jacket dolly inside the same mid-sized pick-up truck (a Mazda B4000 with a cab and regular bed length).
Over a 1000 pounds of coin-op in one mid-sized truck. 5 inch wheeled Yellow Jacket Dolly in a mid-sized Truck with room to spare. Try that with another dolly!
The compact size of this heavy duty pinball dolly with removable control handles really helps when moving a large game collection without the benefit of a large vehicle or trailer. It's also very easy to store under a game.
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| Multiple Dolly Purchase Pricing Bulk order prices assume stock 4 inch wheel size and standard configured wheels. |
| 2-5 | 6-9 | 10-20 | | $310 | $299 | $285 |
Total Order Savings Shipping not included | | $18-45 | $120-180 | $340-680 |
THE YELLOW JACKET PINBALL DOLLY CAN STABLLY LIFT AND TRASPORT THE HEAVIST OF ELECTRO MECHANICAL AND WIDE-BODY PINBALLS.
Priced at $335
Lower than the cost of most other
coin-op - commercial - industrial quality pinball lifts. Shipping, Texas sales tax and dolly equipment options are extra.
Bulk purchasing can save on shipping charges as alternative shipping and packaging methods can be used. Sale Priced dolly has stock configured (two swivel wheels on back of dolly - Two non-swivel wheels on the front of the dolly) and has four inch installed wheels.
PINBALL DOLLY SHIPPING METHODS
 Pinball Medic Amusements can ship the dolly in one large box either as a totally assembled or a disassembled dolly. A typical fully assembled dolly with stock four inch wheels (weighing 91 pounds) will cost $70 to ship in the U.S.A. using the ground shipping method.
Assembly is quick and easy using the photographic and step by step assembly manual. All assembly tools are provided (except an adjustable or 3/4 inch open ended wrench).
Please indicate if you want the fully assembled dolly on the order form. We suggest using a trucking company for multiple disassembled or fully assembled dolly orders to the same business destination. Shipping can be terminal to terminal or for a little more in shipping charges door to door with bulk dolly shipping.
Note: Not all cities have a truck shipping terminal for the companies we use. Due to weight and distance variables for any given number of dollies, Pinball Medic can't approximate the cost of truck shipping, however, using a truck to ship multiple dollies will save considerably when compared to shipping each dolly by ground shipping.
The "Yellow Jacket Pinball Dolly", "Deluxe Yellow Jacket" Air Hockey & Billiard Dolly and Lazy Lift Pinball Dolly are registered trade marks of the Pinball Medic Amusements Company.
Pinball Medic is the only manufacture of "Yellow Jacket" & "Lazy Lift" dolly products and holds the Patent rights to the "Yellow Jacket" Pinball Dolly, "Deluxe Yellow Jacket" Pool and Billiard table and Lazy Lift pinball dollies.
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