How narrow-minded can one be, it would also make a great LITTER BOX!!

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/ele/436209025.html

May I have a moment and philosophize. I think all collectibles must go through a period of abuse, before they start to increase in value. After 2009 I wouldn't be surprised to see lots of old TV sets being destroyed for fun and sport, in carnivals, fund raisers, radio and TV station promotions, etc. . then after most of them are gone, their price will skyrocket, especially the rare ones squirreled away by those odd old fellows back in the early 2000s. Remember almost every collectible was at one time someone else's trash.
Philosophizing over, we return you to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress! Logan :banana:

The idiotic destruction of a potentially valuable-to-a-collector antique television aside, I have to admit that watching fish swim or a cat taking a dump is far better entertainment than 99.99% of today's television programming.
Tom

No worries guys. I believe Adam saved this one:

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=129011

The only TV cabinet reuse I ever saw was my Grandma's house, the old (and quite attractive!) 50's vintage double door RCA cabinet was gutted after the TV died, and turned into a book case. This might have been in the 60's, after the new Zenith arrived. Well, back then, such a set wasn't worth much anyway...

I never understood the 'fishtank' thing. It seems just stupid, though i'm not a fish person anyway...

I don't understand it either. I've heard many mention it as something cool to do with a "useless" old TV. I've seen people selling the ones they built at markets. I have never seen one actually in use with fish in it anywhere. I just doesn't seem practical. Once that tank is inside the TV cabinet full of water and fish it becomes very difficult to get at it do any of the necessary maintenance to keep the fish alive.

I've seen old TV cabinets used as bookcases, speaker boxes and even a rabbit hutch. All of these were built because the it was less work to build something out of the TV cabinet they already had than it was to build it from scratch, not because they wanted something that looked like an old TV that wasn't a TV.

[QUOTE=nasadowsk;1387610]The only TV cabinet reuse I ever saw was my Grandma's house, the old (and quite attractive!) 50's vintage double door RCA cabinet was gutted after the TV died, and turned into a book case.

Oh, do I have a heart wrenching story along these lines...

About 1964, a rather well-to-do neighbor decided that the cabinet of
their old and unwatched B&W DuMont TV would make an excellent book
case for their daughter's college law books. They offered me the 'guts'
from the set for free if I would remove it all quickly.

I offered to have a custom book case built if they would let me buy
the entire working TV set from them, but they were steadfast in their
desire to use the case of *that* TV for the book case.

So this is how I ended up with the two chassis and 30BP4 from a perfect,
working, mint condition Dumont Royal Sovereign Teleset. :^( :^( :^(

...

the post about the teleset makes me very sad

No worries guys. I believe Adam saved this one:

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=129011

This is the same set I picked up on Thurs., I have more pictures of it over on the other thread.

I don't understand it either. I've heard many mention it as something cool to do with a "useless" old TV. I've seen people selling the ones they built at markets. I have never seen one actually in use with fish in it anywhere. I just doesn't seem practical. Once that tank is inside the TV cabinet full of water and fish it becomes very difficult to get at it do any of the necessary maintenance to keep the fish alive.


I'm an aquarium guy, and the amount of specialized equipment required to run a TOTL aquarium these days is much higher than it used to be. Where are you going to put a 10lb co2 cylinder in an old TV? Not to mention that the trend in aquarium design is toward minimalism (to the point of glass intake and outflow tubes for the filter) to focus the attention onto what's inside the aquarium, not what's holding it.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/zminick/IMG_6664.jpg

Why not gut it and do THIS (http://www.leokempf.com/tv/)? :scratch2:

Why not gut it and do THIS (http://www.leokempf.com/tv/)? :scratch2:


Not the greatest job on that one.. White speakercloth over the tuner knob holes? Couple of shafts without knobs? :no:

agreed