What You Can Do With Your Old TV set
August 23, 2008 - 129,532 views
Since we’re environmentally aware and we really want to recycle as much as we can, we thought we’d show you a little trick for your old TV set - how to turn it into an aquarium. Naturally, the tube will have to come out and replaced with the aquarium. Fish swimming are certainly more relaxing to see than some of the shitty shows and news we get fed on a daily basis. Kitty seems to like it too!
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This is a cool Idea but readers should be warned that the capacitors in television sets are very dangerous. They store an electrical charge long after the television has been unplugged. Anyone wishing to attempt this should take extra precautions to prevent electrocution. (DC current can potentially kill you)
Some years from now you are going to realize that you have an antique and you wasted and converted into a cheap, bizarre acaurium. Nevertheless, years after that your work will have gained some kitsch retrospective acuarium concept that could get you some money after all.
Cute kitty, good idea. The TV set lid will keep the cat dry and the fish uneaten.
Very nice.
Buzzkill
what if you want to turn it off?
amazing
Kinda neat. It’s an even-more retro version of the MacQuarium, which one made with an old Mac - the all-in-one type from the ’80s.
This is very obviously (& poorly) photoshopped!
you are most definetly retarded that is not ‘ obviously’ photoshopped.
Ive seen it been made before i even saw this article.
dumbass
looks kind of tacky…. euch
where does one get a tube tv now-a-days anyway?
Simpsons did it.
maybe it’s just me but I think the working TV was far more interesting. and unless you got the parts to an e-waste center it won’t be doing any good for the landfill.
JuhAche:
I doubt it. A CRT television in not an antique in the sense that the original Nintendo or baseball cards are. A CRT Television is more like an old Apple IIe that your grandmother has in her attic that only displays text in green. Nobody is going to say “Hey, I want to watch a fuzzy picture on that 30 year old TV that weighs 110 lbs.” The only place that would want something like that would be a museum.
Cool project though. Your cat looks hungry. Did it watch regular TV when the set worked?
Seriously dudes, the thing you kept - wood - was the only thing that was not dangerous for the environment. If you don’t tell us what you’ve done with the tube and the electronic boards then you can’t really use the ‘I recycle’ card.
I tell you what I do with my old electronic stuff: I just go to a electronics store and ask them to dispose of it properly. Which I know for a fact that they do.
*Cough* SMUG ASSHOLE *Cough*
jemima puddleduck needs to LURK THE FUCK MORE!
GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY INTERNETZ!!!
ALSO COCKS!!
You should probably ditch the strip-mined kitty litter too
Growing up a it more in my childhood im 36 btw my grandmother did this same thing with her old tv set.Ahhh Gram Gram.
The moisture from the fish tank will soon ruin that lovely piece of woodwork.
Overall, this is a big fail.
Too easy, no real effort, no real thought put into the mod, and a waste of an antique vacuum tube TV set that apparently was in good condition (clean, no corrosion.)
photoshopped. i can tell by the pixels and by having seen quite a few ’shops in my day.
The first thing that came to mind when seeing this was why in god’s name did you ruin a perfectly good antique television set…even if the TV part of it didn’t work the classic wooden shell made it a keeper. And I also agree that moisture will wreck this over time.
You might want to be careful when you handle a large picture tube. If you drop it on its neck or tap it just right, it will implode and you’ll be picking glass out of you and the cat for a long time.
-JA-
Way to sound like a pompous douche bag over a televesion mod that looks like half assed shit.
the cat is awesome
I don’t know. I think my daughter and i had a good time tossing an old monitor on a burn pile, making pretty designs with the tube, and then setting the whole thing on fire.
What?!!?! At least we’ll recycle the glass…
I think this would be so much better for people then staring at whats actually on tv these days.
Jason
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i love it! i have two different aquariums in my house and they would look so much better if they were displayed more creatively, just like that.
and all of you environmentalists who are bagging on this tv aquarium should just shut up. the world is not going to end soon.
I like it.
Frankly a B&W tv set like that will not last long if used regularly anyways.
The aquarium looks cool.
You can take the old chassis apart and build a ham radio transmitter.
Now thats recycling.
You are an imaginative and commendable person. Well done!
Nice TV mod. You should write a disclaimer though, definitely not safe for kids or for people who are not familiar with electronics. I can just imagine some kid using this article as a DIY guide and gets himself killed. Cool mod though
All of these comments draw a quote to mind:
“Hurr, I argue on the internets!”
wow,amazing idea, ill try it someday with grama tv
Ducks give me boners.
Let me chime in with the “what a waste of a Good antique TV crowd. The picture tube will bite if not handled corectly, the chasis has a few places that can Bite also, the water Will not help the wood, and if you insist why not start with a dead TV and not a working one?
All together a “value reduced” project.
Charles is quite right. DO NOT take apart an old television set unless you really .. I mean really know what you’re doing. The capacitors can contain a lethal charge for a long time, the CRT can explode, the tubes contain lead and mercury. The whole things is one toxic, dangerous mess.
I am surprised that nobody came up with the obvious answer. replace the inside with modern plasma or LCD TV electronics . Then you have the old looks with modern functionality & for those without the space somewhere to put it! sell the new tv case & old tv parts at a boot sale & make some money while recycling.
Why is everyone so butthurt?
I like what you did.
The kitty is really cool - I think it looked best when kitty was IN the tv playing Rin-Tin-Tin. Perhaps kitty will one day win an ESPY! As for all you tree huggers - I have several old Tube TVs AND radios too for that matter - which one of you Al Gore Suckers will give me $500.00 for one?
Oh…and the kitty was NOT Photoshopped. I have seen a few shopped pictures in my day, and I know from the pixel count to the way the shadows are located that the kitty in the TV is REAL!
I’d give this project a B–.
Yeah, I really can’t figure out why everyone is so upset about this either. It looks good. There was actually a pet shop in the town I grew up that had one similar to this, and another one with a rattle snake in it. Always interesting.
As for the people who always shout “shopped!!” I suppose you will see that with any image on the internet.
Finally, just wax the wood with a paraffin or similar wax from time to time to prevent the damage.
Waterproof the wood, and keep a lid and filter on the fishtank, and the wood should be just fine, however, you should have a professional disassemble and dispose of the innards of the TV.
I’ve seen one of these in a few stores, and they’re really awesome.
A buddy of mine and I actually ended up making a computer case and monitor enclosure out of an old TV set that we picked up at the Salvation Army. Fun project, and possibly the most unique gaming console I’ve ever seen.
cat is awesome … LOL
That cat is definitely photoshopped.
Your cat, he is fixing your TV.
LoL
Uhm….so what do you do with the tube you take out? because that causes the most damage to the environment…