Here she is all done! Of course, this was originally a table top model but I couldn’t resist putting a lazy suzan hair pin leg base on it.
When Mel and I were first dealers at Midway I looked into Justin’s shop (Stellar Electronics) and I saw this TV cabinet. I remember thinking I would love to get my hands on it. Over time as I got to know Justin and he knocked out a couple of conversions for us I asked him about this TV cabinet. Justin said he actually had plans to dispose of it, so I asked him if a conversion was an option and he said sure!
Here is where we started with. This restoration and conversion was a little bit of a Frankenstein, but I think it looks great.
As in my earlier post about this television, I took the cabinet home and restored the case and dressed it up. We had plans to place it in our kitchen so we could watch the boob tube as we enjoyed dinner.
Once I was done with the restoration, I dropped the cabinet back off to Justin and he worked his magic. He found a donor television and mounted it into the cabinet. Justin also installed an HDMI connection!
The front panel flips down for your component connections.
Justin hid the sensor in the right knob. You can see the small hole.
Justin always manages to mount the remote sensor in hard to find locations.
As usual, TCM is playing. I think that is Ingrid Bergman on screen, not sure what movie though.
We are very pleased with how it all turned out. It is great to know that new life has been breathed into this old cabinet. Once more it will entertain a new family that will enjoy it for many years to come.
Oh, you also might have noticed our Moss lamp with the Hedi Schoop
figure mounted on it. What makes this Moss lamp unique and rare is that it’s also an AM radio.
I think we have all the conversions we have room for. I recommend that if this seems cool and something you might be interested in, to check with Justin of Stellar Electronics to see if he can complete a conversion for you.
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