Fish tank conversion

[Steve K]

I bought this DuMont last year at the ETF and I finally got around to working on it. When I got it home I realized that I couldn’t find the Sam’s for it and it was full of odd oil filled capacitors and had a strange looking CRT. I plugged it in and just got smoke. I figured without a schematic I couldn’t get it working. I know that a lot of people repurpose old TVs so I figured this would be a good candidate because the cabinet was so nice.

I threw out the chassis as it didn’t look like it had any usable parts. I only had a small fish tank to start with and I had to prop that up on a box. I will get a 5 gallon tank later. To make it easier to feed the fish I put a hinged lid on it. After cutting it out the edges got chipped up so I painted the edges of the opening white to hide the bad parts. I have yet to glue on the knobs. I think it turned out nice.

I decided to save the CRT before the trash men came and turn it into a unique flower vase to put on top of the set. Unfortunately it imploded when I tried to cut the neck off and I had glass everywhere.

Steve