Dedicated Atari TETRIS cabaret #124 - A CossackWarrior Restoration

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Dedicated Atari TETRIS cabaret #124 - A CossackWarrior Restoration

Hey guys, it's been a while since I posted one on my recent restorations. It's a pretty rare dedicated Tetris. I love Tetris, and I love this style cabaret. In actuality, the few dedicated Tetris arcades made in the Atari factory, were from leftover KLAX cabarets, as you can tell from the inside of the cabinet, the wooden mounts to mount the KLAX pcb are still in there, but not used for Tetris as the Tetris pcb I much smaller in size and mounted directly to the cabinet with mounting feet and screws.

All matching serial numbers.

What was done:

1. Cleaned and restored buttons, button bezels, joysticks cp harness
2. All metal striped and re-powdercoated
3. All inner guts removed, cleaned, restored
4. Cabinet striped, sanded, bondo'd, and cabinet spray painted with professional equipment
5. New 3M black satin vinyl applied on front and sides
6. New chrome t molding
7. Rounded top chrome bullnose bezel was re-chromed
8. Coin doors polished and chromed to match chrome t molding and bullnose bezel
9. New Teflon leg levelers
10. NOS side art applied
11. NOS cp art applied
12. Special project on scanning and reproducing the original monitor art bezel. Repro made from 2mm clear acrylic, art was reverse applied, and plotted cut to match original bezel size and center cut out.
13. Added the missing black cardboard monitor shroud (now available from Joeycuda thanks to hisnice lending his :) )

Enjoy guys :)

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geez that thing is immaculate. as clean and sharp a resto as i've seen here in a while

nicely done!

Thank you man. It was a thoroughly enjoyable restoration. No major hiccups.

Beautiful!

If you ever sell any of your resto's, reach out to me first!

Super clean.

Nick, I will let you know first. I just hope you dont mind shipping from Toronto all the way to Cali....ughhhhhh :)
 
Wow that's very clean, and shiny! Did you also paint the inside of the cabinet or just got it incredibly clean by hand?
 
Wow that's very clean, and shiny! Did you also paint the inside of the cabinet or just got it incredibly clean by hand?

The cabinet was first blown out with a strong air compressor which made it really clean on its own. Then I lightly wiped it down with a damp cloth.

Luckily the inside was in excellent condition already. It was the outside bottom edges that needed the most help. I also had to re-staple and glue the top to one side as it was coming apart about 3/8".
 
Great restore! this has and will always be one of my all-time favorite cabaret designs. :)
 
Where did you get the new t-molding, especially that piece that goes across the top? I've got a klax cabaret I'd like to spiff up.
 
Where did you get the new t-molding, especially that piece that goes across the top? I've got a klax cabaret I'd like to spiff up.

You have to reuse that special rounded molding. Basically remove it, strip the old vinyl and glue off, and re apply new chrome vinyl. It applies very nicely onto this molded plastic piece.
 
Beautiful work on a cool cabinet. Are you adding decals from Etienne?

I kept the original stickers on this one as the dedicated TET124 serial number was not in bad condition and seems irreplaceable. I am thinking of replacing the FBI sticker. I already do have that replacement sticker from Etienne. On the fence though :)
 
Thanks for the shout out :)

The chrome t-molding is out there (I think I bought mine here: https://www.t-molding.com/chrome-t-molding.html)

but yeah, I need a new wider piece across the top of the cab and have never seen any replacement anywhere.

Would love to know if anyone finds it.

Ya, I got the chrome t-molding from t-molding.com too.

As for the top rounded bullnose, are you missing yours? If not, can't you strip the one you have and re-vinyl it with new chrome vinyl?

You are VERY welcome for the shoutout, without you lending that very important inner monitor shroud to Joey, my restore and cabinet would just not look complete. Cheers!
 
Mine's not missing that bullnose, it's just gouged.

Thanks for the great advice on chrome vinyl and I'll take a closer look at it...
 
So I can just get a sheet of chrome vinyl at Home Depot or whatever and just recover it? Makes sense, but I never knew there was chrome vinyl.
 
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