Convert Old Floor Radio To Minifridge

I templated the back using the radio housing.

Convert old floor radio to minifridge.

After its conversion its an am fm radio with mp3 player with bose bookshelf speakers and 150 watts of power. It did take up many weekends but it was well worth the time and effort. Cut a 6 hole in the side down low for the smoke box. 22 make an air.

If modern black box electronics don t go well with the more timeless decor of your home perhaps it s time to camouflage them. So i decided to modernize it but keep the old look and make the old controls work a new radio. This project was a lot of fun. However all old radios pretty much work the same way so the steps below should work for your radio.

Take an old desktop radio in beautiful art deco or mid century style and make it a modern bluetooth music player. Keep in mind that every old time radio is different. The existing racks are great for smoking hams or turkeys salmon. In this case that means turning a vintage radio into a modern wi fi.

For my radio i picked up a 1 8 in. Cut a 3 or 4 hole in the top and add some galvanized stove pipe pipe for the vent. We have our supplies. It needed a full make over and a revamp of everything.

Time to get to work. Project panel tempered hardboard. I purchased a beautifully styled late 1930s montgomery wards tabletop radio empty case at a radio swap meet many years ago. How this farnsworth radio looks on the inside will be different from how your philco or zenith looks on the inside.

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. I will show you how to take an antique 1940s radio and turn it into a personal mini bar. I cut it using a jigsaw and dry fitted it to make sure it fit within the sides of the radio. Attach a smoke box from an old smoker and seal it up.

Mod your old time radio. You just have to turn an old radio into a bluetooth speaker. Make a smoker made an awesome smoker out of an old freezer. You can have the best of both worlds though as redditor billyjole illustrated in a post on the subreddit r diy.

The original parts are the knobs case metal frame dial and bezel. I used the old back to figure out where the two screw holes should go to attach the new back for a perfect fit.