How to remove that 80s smell from a DK cab?

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Anyone have tips on getting that monitor dust/ dirt and or cig smell out of a cabinet? My DK has a very distinct 80s arcade cabinet smell I would like to remove from inside... Lol
 
That particular smell is the smell of the hobby.

Love it, live it, stroke its fur...

...or maybe Febreeze?
 
Anyone have tips on getting that monitor dust/ dirt and or cig smell out of a cabinet? My DK has a very distinct 80s arcade cabinet smell I would like to remove from inside... Lol

I used Pledge to clean the inside of the cabs. I recommend wearing a respirator while doing so since it's an enclosed space.
 
The best is scrubbing a donkey kong control panel plexi, specifically with a soft steel wool over the cig burns - you can almost smell it like it was yesterday.
 
If its really a problem, you can strip the inside clean it with something (Simple Green or even a bleach/water mix), let it dry then seal it with Kilz primer.

I had a Twin Eagle that must've been in a bar. It smelled like cigarettes, beer and well, basically bar funk. I loved it, but its not exactly what I wanted my house smelling like so I kept it in the garage.

My buddy took the cab and did put it in his house. After about a month it just stopped smelling. This might happen with your DK if its not some nasty mold funk creating the smell.
 
Yea it's just the cab, I have the mikes arcade repo panel. I'll try the pledge. No mold in the cab, the cab was empty and is great shape except for the base, which I replaced. Just has that layer of dust inside from the heat over all those years. Smells like a unfinished basement in my apt.
 
If its really a problem, you can strip the inside clean it with something (Simple Green or even a bleach/water mix), let it dry then seal it with Kilz primer.

+1. I'd try the bleach water first then stick a box of baking soda in the bottom of the cab. Give it a few days. If it still smells, then you can seal it with primer.
 
The wood is porous, so it likely absorbed the smoke smell which will emit forever. You can mask it for a little bit, but it will probably come back to some extent.

I looked at purchasing an old house from the late 1700's, and it had an old cigar parlor in it. Guess which room still smells like smoke after all these years even after all the cleaning, and being smoke free since the 30's? ;)
 
maybe try a bowl of baking soda in the base? Certainly would take no effort adn worth a shot.
 
I had a DK cab that smelled so bad it stunk up my entire garage! It wasn't the lovely arcade smell we all wish we could bottle and make our wives wear as purfume....This was a nasty smokey, mold, wet basement smell.
Upon restoring the cab, I sanded it inside and out, and then used pledge on all the exposed wood surfaces inside the cab.
It killed the smell about 90%......
The rest has mostly faded with time
 
seal the inside with clear polyurethane. 3 or 4 coats, until it starts sitting on top of the wood (particle board, ply, whatever).
Everything that has a coating on it, clean with clorox cleanup.
 
Thanks I'll try the least effort approaches first. I'm gonna paint the cab soon too, if it's not gone by then, I'll try the more intense methods
 
My Q-bert had some weird perfumy-like smell in it when I got it home from the prior owner. I sold it some time back, but for some reason my mind still retains the matrix-like data that tells me what it smelled like. Odd.
 
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