One of the original problems with this machine was the massive cabinet damage. Many people would've parted the game out for that purpose. The floor of the cabinet was held in by drywall screws. The front corner of the cab was split open by the shooter. Some nitwit replaced one flipper button with an older Bally or Gottlieb unit, and enlarged the hole and removed the flange the flipper button's PAL nut screwed up against. The cabinet was very rough.

To many prototype collectors, original = value. I could stick it in another cabinet, like my friend Ben did with his Creature - he took a BSD cab and used it to replace his CFTBL cab eith no floor - but this wasn't as smooth a transition as hoped. I could've also bought a  new cabinet, but that's a lot of $$. Plus, it wouldn't be 'original'. I don't want to do anything that is a permanent mod that will be non-reversible. This won't be mine forever, and somebody, someday, may want as original a game as possible.

You can somewhat see drywall screws holding the floor in the cabinet here:



Closeup:



Shot of the split corner:


And the enlarged flipper hole:


From the other side



And a good idea of the damage to the bottom:



The bottom panel of the cabinet fits into a routed channel in the 4 sides of the cabinet. When the bottom gets knocked out, it is often due to the channel the bottom slides into being broken. You can see where pieces are missing in the above photo.





And a picture, showing where the transformer was moved to:



So, I sent the CFTBL cab to my friend Mac in Ohio. Mac is a master woodworker. Mac began the repairs removing the floor.





How to tackle the cut out flipper button?



The identical sized area is routered out around the cut out flipper button.



Cab is roughed back together





Lower repainted and decaled



Only real flaw is a misalignment of the front decal, start button should be centered in the speaker on the front decal.





Mac did an awesome job and I don't know if I could've repaired this cabinet myself.