I know we've been through this before...
 

But I still can't get over how many people can't wait to gut an old tv to build a fish tank! This set caught my eye because I found one very similar in that score from a few weeks back. Read these questions, all of them intelligent until the end...

http://i7.ebayimg.com/01/i/07/00/64/24_1_b.JPG

Just for spite...
 

Just for spite, one day I think I'm gonna take an old fish tank and convert it into a TV!

--Dave

why would anyone want to gut a tv thats in excellent condition like that!? Some people shouldnt be allowed to buy these things!!!!

:puke: The whole fish tank thing gets to me too. One time I saw a late 40s Philco 10" b/w console at a thrift in excellent condition, and decided to just come back the next week for it, because I didn't really have time to deal with it then. When I came back the next week, I learned that it was sold to a guy who wanted to fish-tank it. Since then, I've felt like I had to rescue every old TV I saw even if it isn't one I really wanted, in case someone otherwise turns it into a fish tank. And now I have 40 sets in a 1 bedroom apartment. There's got to be a solution to this, but I have yet to find it.

The Great Unwashed simply don't realise that, yes, there are indeed a few iconoclasts out here that enjoy old TVs for what they are...they think the only use for an old set is to gut it & make a bar to hide their bottles of Ripple & Malt Duck in, or turn it into a fish tank. Seems like I saw the Fish Tank idea being promulgated by a latter day hippie woman w/long stringy hair, no brassiere,& questionable political leanings around 1975 or so..in one of them hippy-dippy "Back bo Mother Earth" books.

Therapy? Oh, you meant a solution to the fishtank problem! :)

Has anyone ever actually seen a fish-tanked TV? I wonder if it's one of those things that lots of people talk about, but not so many carry through on.

I have owned a few aquariums over the years, and you need a certain amount of headroom to mount the light over the tank, and to set it up and do maintenance. I think it would be very inconvenient to do things like clean the tank, change water, etc., with only two or three inches clearance above the tank.

Also, a full aquarium is heavy! You don't normally want to move them when full. If the TV was pushed up against the wall, then every day when you wanted to feed the fish, you would have to grunt that heavy thing away from the wall without sloshing water all over the place.

On the other hand, maybe anybody who would contemplate this in the first place would solve the problem by sawing a giant access hole in the top of the cabinet.

Now that I think of it I actually have never seen in person a fish-tanked TV, but I have seen TVs turned into cabinets for newer TVs, or other general A/V equipment, shelves, and bars. And wasn't there a set we were discussing a few weeks ago that someone turned into a dog house. http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67247 It's not so bad when someone takes a set with a busted crt or some other major problems and does this, but to do it to a perfectly repairable set :thumbsdn: And they should at least try to give away the chassis to someone who can use it. I have junked a few sets myself if they needed parts I couldn't find to fix it, or had something I needed to repair a similar model that was in better condition. But I always kept the chassis, and crt (if it was good) for parts to help repair other sets in the future.

cabinets for fish aquaria
 

Water weighs 8 lbs per gallon, and a tank having at least 10 gallons of water in it along with gravel and other stuff, I'll bet that the indivdiual would find a broken tank and cabinet and one heck of a mess very quickly as I know of no chassis that weighs 80 pounds plus.
Humidity not withstanding to cause the glues used to dissolve.

BAD IDEA !! Imnsho..

Bob Hodge

I turned the corner at a giant antique mall one day to be greeted by about a half dozen old tv sets. Two of them-a c.1950 table model & a 23" Motorola console-had been "tanked". No water but the aquariums were there, all set up and ready to go. The other sets were still complete. It was tempting to rescue at least one of them but the prices were all too high.

There is a real supply & demand problem with these 21" bw consoles. There are just not enough of us to rescue all of them. I have several I will give away (or close to it) and after years of trying nobody has yet claimed them. I had to part out some to make room, and I feel bad about it but sometimes you just don't have a choice. But, I couldn't see myself gutting a working tv like the one in the sale. The set would need to have major problems.

Well the auction for this one ended..I dont think the guy that wanted to fish tank it got it...unless he was willing to pay $305.00+$200.00 shipping to do that!

I suspect you would need a 20-gallon tank to completely fill the screen on a 20+ - inch TV.

The filled weight of an aquarium comes to 10 - 12 pounds per gallon, which means 200+ pounds for that size screen.

I owned a couple of modern 20-gallon tanks. They were thin glass plates stuck together with silicone seal. Never intended to be moved when full.

I wonder if the people at the mall selling TV cabinets with cheap aquarium setups offer a money-back guarantee? :-)

Seems this set's been around.
It was sold before for $370 in a bidding war between two people with very sketchy feedback, oddly the seller didn't neg the winning bidder who stiffed him for $370.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6276257820

I notice the winning bidder this time is a "0" feedback newbie, something smells here.

I was reading the LA craigslist and found this :thumbsdn:
I like these 19" round b&w consoles, but not like this. :no:

Better than a fishtank....

Service procedure would be easy: When Chinese made TV goes bad, remove said TV. Then go to Wal Mart and buy another. Place new TV where the old one was.

Or, for HDTV: Insert a computer VGA monitor. Drive it with a Samsong HDTV set top receiver box hidden inside, with its remove sensor positioned to peer thru one of the old TV set knob holes..... For a crude approximation of B&W you could short the red to blue and both those to green using a male and a female VGA connectors and some jumper wires. Make it switchable for a "color conversion"..... :D