Convert Old Floor Radio To Minifridge

The original parts are the knobs case metal frame dial and bezel.

Convert old floor radio to minifridge. For my radio i picked up a 1 8 in. Take an old desktop radio in beautiful art deco or mid century style and make it a modern bluetooth music player. 22 make an air. It did take up many weekends but it was well worth the time and effort.

I cut it using a jigsaw and dry fitted it to make sure it fit within the sides of the radio. Converting an old radio to dab. However all old radios pretty much work the same way so the steps below should work for your radio. It needed a full make over and a revamp of everything.

Mod your old time radio. I m probably asking for a beating here but i really don t have an issue with converting the works of an old radio to am fm bluetooth so long as the appearance of the unit looks original and the work is well done. The existing racks are great for smoking hams or turkeys salmon. Attach a smoke box from an old smoker and seal it up.

This project was a lot of fun. So i decided to modernize it but keep the old look and make the old controls work a new radio. Keep in mind that every old time radio is different. How this farnsworth radio looks on the inside will be different from how your philco or zenith looks on the inside.

I templated the back using the radio housing. If modern black box electronics don t go well with the more timeless decor of your home perhaps it s time to camouflage them. There are several products that can be plugged in to a traditional radio or hi fi tuner to enable them to receive digital audio broadcasts. Make a smoker made an awesome smoker out of an old freezer.

After its conversion its an am fm radio with mp3 player with bose bookshelf speakers and 150 watts of power. I used the old back to figure out where the two screw holes should go to attach the new back for a perfect fit. In this case that means turning a vintage radio into a modern wi fi. I purchased a beautifully styled late 1930s montgomery wards tabletop radio empty case at a radio swap meet many years ago.

I will show you how to take an antique 1940s radio and turn it into a personal mini bar. Project panel tempered hardboard. You can have the best of both worlds though as redditor billyjole illustrated in a post on the subreddit r diy. Cut a 3 or 4 hole in the top and add some galvanized stove pipe pipe for the vent.

You just have to turn an old radio into a bluetooth speaker. Time to get to work.