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06-15-2010, 09:52 AM
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Forget fishtanks. I think this one takes the cake!
I think the most disheartening part is the mention of "Many more like this available"! This ranks with the litter box conversion that was posted a while back! Sigh.
http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/hsh/1781313501.html 
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06-15-2010, 12:07 PM
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I have thought about being buried in my RCA Mark VIII console stereo...
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06-15-2010, 12:34 PM
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Wow, that's two pretty tough threads in a row. And "many more like this available" insinuates there's a high demand for these things. That just isn't possible. Hopefully there aren't too "many more". Besides, it doesn't even look finished. You can see the pipes through the glass and you couldn't actually store anything so it has no other function than to hold a sink up. I wouldn't worry about too many more of these being made.
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06-15-2010, 01:56 PM
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Unbelievable, who in their right mind would think that's attractive, or even "Shabby Chic"
It's just plain tacky, not to mention too high for a sink unless you're 7 ft tall. I guess they could lay another one on it's back and complete the bathroom ensemble. 
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06-15-2010, 02:17 PM
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Last year on Seattle craigslist there was a radio console made into a dry sink. The photo's long gone, but here's a quote from the seller's description (I am not making this up):
"I wanted to ruin a piece of furniture in to a sink." Mission accomplished! Phil
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06-15-2010, 07:04 PM
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And the pipes are visible through the front?? HIDEOUS death of what seems like a bunch of great restorable sets
 Then people wonder why we try and save every set we can, they're not made anymore, that's why, we're gonna run out of them at some point. Run on sentence over.........................................now
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06-15-2010, 07:39 PM
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I am convinced that due to ignorance, a LOT of people think old sets can not be made to work again. Any "repurposing" is a valid use of the old cabinets and the "guts" are just useless junk.
Of course if they would take the time to do even least amount of looking they would find that these old sets can be saved and used as designed, but that would require a level of initiative that goes way beyond them. Last edited by DaveWM; 06-16-2010 at 06:13 AM.
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06-16-2010, 03:38 PM
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Sadly, a lot of people do this stuff because they've been media-conditioned to think American-made technology is junk (like cars from Detroit), and deserves a good "art-ifying". There are dozens of mutilated bezels and whole sets turned freak-show-prop being displayed around Seattle as art.
Other people are such a happy blending of arrogant and ignorant attitudes toward anything thats soooo last-year. We are pretty spoiled as a whole, and if Mommy or Daddy doesn't give us a new one we have a mutilation-therapy session with something cool from our ignored past. I'd almost buy the darn thing if I had the chassis for it. Every time I find an empty cabinet in a thrift store, etc., I ask if the "rest of it" is still in the back room. Maybe if they would stop accepting empty cabinets...
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