Converting Floor Radio To Shelf

So i decided to give it a new life as a vintage bluetooth audio speaker.

Converting floor radio to shelf.

First of all let me point out that this 35 00 western royal console radio was broken and in my assessment would cost more to repair than to convert into a classy good sounding radio i was at my local thrift store a few months ago and saw this radi. Restoration new life out of a busted 1930 s radio conversion. I had this cool looking soviet russian transistor radio neywa 402 made in 70s on my shelf for a year. See more ideas about van van life van camping.

Converting old radio into a bluetooth speaker. This project took me a couple of weeks of evenings after work and weekends. You can have the best of both worlds though as redditor billyjole illustrated in a post on the subreddit r diy. Time to get to work.

Keep in mind that every old time radio is different. We have our supplies. Am transmitters are harder to come by and buy. It was a tough but exciting project because i didn t really know what i was going to do with the electronics at first.

You can buy fm ipod transmitters to play an audio source mp3 ipod xm over fm radio by the boat load. Third the am transmitter to link a xm receiver. However all old radios pretty much work the same way so the steps below should work for your radio. In this video i convert my great grandparents broken 1937 philco radio model 37 60 into a bluetooth speaker while i look into getting the radio repaired.

Cost time and skills. Today though i m writing about all the creative and interesting ways people have found to destroy them and there are quite a few ways from gutting a radio cabinet and painting it a garish white to turn it into a shabby chic display case to cutting pieces off radios to make into shelves for putting in a modern radio to. Sep 13 2020 explore edward collin s board van conversion floor layout followed by 358 people on pinterest. It was nice to look at and had a sentimental value but it didn t work.

Most off the shelf modulators are fm but an am one can be made easily. You just have to turn an old radio into a bluetooth speaker. Normally i write about how to fix an antique radio. Total cost was about 600 because i purchased new stereo equipment to replace the.