For my radio i picked up a 1 8 in.
Convert old floor radio to minifridge.
The original parts are the knobs case metal frame dial and bezel.
After its conversion its an am fm radio with mp3 player with bose bookshelf speakers and 150 watts of power.
Mod your old time radio.
We have our supplies.
Attach a smoke box from an old smoker and seal it up.
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.
It needed a full make over and a revamp of everything.
Cut a 6 hole in the side down low for the smoke box.
You can have the best of both worlds though as redditor billyjole illustrated in a post on the subreddit r diy.
However all old radios pretty much work the same way so the steps below should work for your radio.
I will show you how to take an antique 1940s radio and turn it into a personal mini bar.
Make a smoker made an awesome smoker out of an old freezer.
Cut a 3 or 4 hole in the top and add some galvanized stove pipe pipe for the vent.
So i decided to modernize it but keep the old look and make the old controls work a new radio.
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.
You just have to turn an old radio into a bluetooth speaker.
This project was a lot of fun.
You can check what s.
Time to get to work.
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.
In this case that means turning a vintage radio into a modern wi fi.
Take an old desktop radio in beautiful art deco or mid century style and make it a modern bluetooth music player.
Converting an old radio to dab.
I cut it using a jigsaw and dry fitted it to make sure it fit within the sides of the radio.
Project panel tempered hardboard.
It did take up many weekends but it was well worth the time and effort.
Keep in mind that every old time radio is different.