Mother Daughter Projects

  • Blog
  • About
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
  • Tools
    • Tool Tuesday
  • Maintenance
  • Improvement
  • Decor
  • Tech
  • Blog
  • About
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
  • Tools
    • Tool Tuesday
  • Maintenance
  • Improvement
  • Decor
  • Tech

DIY for Homeowners

Vintage Radio for Modern Tech

3/17/2016

0 Comments

 
​by Steph    ​Sign up to receive project updates by email!
Picture
Mom volunteers at a thrift store and she grabbed this find before anyone else! She took it home where I spotted it and took it to my house to see what I could make. After some thought, I realized it would be a great spot to put my computer hard drives and dock. The front would look like a radio and the back could be open (for ventilation) and hide some of my tech gear. I’m working on a new office desk so this radio came along at the perfect time.
Mother Daughter Projects
Materials:
  • Vintage Radio
  • (2) Scrabble tile holders
  • Wood Stain (Minwax Mission Oak)
  • (3) Wood shelves (made from scrap wood in my garage)
  • Wood glue
  • Hot glue gun
  • Aluminum foil tape
  • Level (I needed a short one so I used the level on my iPhone- which you can find in the compass app)

Tech:
  • Computer Dock (Elgato Thunderbolt Dock)
  • Hard drives (G-Tech mobile & G-tech external)
Mother Daughter Projects
I started by cutting some scrap wood to size for the shelves.
Mother Daughter Projects
Mom thought scrabble tile holders would make a perfect bracket for my shelves, so I cut them to size and covered them with a dark stain.
Mother Daughter Projects
I unscrewed the guts from the radio and kept a few parts to add back in place.
Mother Daughter Projects
I figured out the placement of the shelves and brackets. With the drives plugged into my dock I only need one cable to connect everything to my computer.
Mother Daughter Projects
I used hot glue to attach the bottom shelf and the radio knobs back in place.
Mother Daughter Projects
I used aluminum tape to attach the dials in place. Even though these parts will not function anymore, I wanted to attach them back for the full vintage radio feel.
Mother Daughter Projects
I cut the radio station graphic down and used double sided tape to attach it to a cut piece of card board.
Mother Daughter Projects
I hot glued those parts in place.
Mother Daughter Projects
I used wood glue to attach the brackets to the inside of the radio.
Mother Daughter Projects
After that dried, I leveled out the shelf to get the left side bracket location.
Mother Daughter Projects
I glued the other brackets in place and let dry.
Mother Daughter Projects
I decided not to glue the shelves in place in case I need to move them for cables. I can easily use wood glue in the future if I need to secure them.
Mother Daughter Projects
I put my dock and hard drives in place, connected everything together, grabbed my computer and done! A vintage radio to hide my modern tech.
Vintage Radio for Modern Tech. MotherDaughterProjects.com
Have an other ideas for hiding tech/cables/desk storage? Let us know in the comments!

Please note: We are not sponsored by any of the companies/products that we used. These products were picked and bought by us.

FYI: We are not professionals, and we don’t claim to be. This is what we found worked for our project. Yours may need a little different approach. Safety first!

FYI: Amazon/Home Depot affiliate links are being used on this page.

Related Projects

Picture
‘Harry Potter’ Style Picture Frame
Picture
Lightsaber Headboard
Picture
Apple Watch Lego Stand
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    MotherDaughterProjects.com

    Mother Daughter Projects
    ​
    Steph & Vicki

    We're homeowners sharing our DIY adventures as we learn to maintain, improve, decorate, and ​use tech in our homes.
    Share your projects with us here:  
    ​#trylearnshare
    MotherDaughterProjects.com
Mother Daughter Projects, LLC ∙ est. 2015 ∙ Tallahassee, FL by Vicki & Steph ∙ Privacy Policy