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diverdown:
ChadTower
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Please Please cut the front of the crt off.  Then put it in the living room and fill it up. Don't forget to invite me around to laugh. I promise to bring a mop.

I too have built said fishtank. You remove the tube and all the gutz and put a "real" tank inside butted up against the surrounding timber. The old CRT will be curved but it will have a matching surround which you remove to get a flat edge
danny_galaga:


it got so that when i was living with my sister and a housemate, between recycling and having a compost bin we didnt have enough rubbish to throw out every week! so we would often wheel out a quarter to half full wheelie bin every fortnight with our overflowing recycle bin. funny because the guy we bought the house from didnt care much about recycling and had given that bin to the shop owners across the road. they werent really happy when we asked for it back (",)

ill have to look out for old tvs the next time they do a 'hard rubbish' day (didnt know it was called that). can make me a nice 21" 'arcade' job with a chassis...
ChadTower:

Yeah, we throw out about 3/4 of a 35 gallon bag every week.  Realistically, we put out two bags every other week.  Not usually full.  We put out two bags of paper goods and three bins of plastics/etc every week. 

Of course, we got into that habit at UMass, where people would actually see that you weren't recycling and knock on your door to ---smurfette--- you out.  Damn hairy lesbos.
horseboy:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 03, 2006, 01:24:16 pm ---
How did you convert the front of the tank?  I have always wanted to do that but was never sure if I would cut the front of the CRT off for a real curved glass or just use a flat tempered piece.


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--- Quote from: diverdown on October 04, 2006, 02:15:41 am ---I too have built said fishtank. You remove the tube and all the gutz and put a "real" tank inside butted up against the surrounding timber. The old CRT will be curved but it will have a matching surround which you remove to get a flat edge

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Chad, when you pull out the monitor it leaves you with the wood and the bezel (usually the bezel is that grey color). Diverdown is saying that he just pulled out the bezel as well and butted the tank up to the wood. I thought about that, but I just didn't think that it would look right without the bezel. Like you that was my quandary, "How in the hell am I going to get a curved piece of glass to fit this and then somehow attach it to a fish tank?"

Miraculously one day it hit me. Optical illusion. I put some 2x4's in the bottom of the TV to raise the tank (standard Wal-Mart 29 gallon) to the proper height. It fit perfectly in the case with only the bottom strip of black from the tank showing through the hole. Up left and right you could see nothing but water and fish. When looking at it straight on you can see the bottom of the tank and about an inch of rocks. The distance from where the bezel touches the screen (when it was still there) and where it attaches to the wood is about 1 inch to 2 inches depending upon where you are on the curve. So, I took a thin piece of cardboard and attached it to the black strip on the bottom of the tank and to where the bottom of the bezel meets the wood. Then I filled that area in the bottom of the bezel up with the same rocks that are in the tank. The rocks blend in seamlessly with the ones in the tank. You can't tell what has been done unless you are very very close to the tank. The only problem is that the loose rocks aren't child safe. My sisters kids slung those things everywhere.

The other problem was that any real fishtank you get is going to be too tall for the top since the monitor are pretty much always attached to within about an inch of the top, so the lights and filters and stuff are too tall to fit. For that I cut a rectangle out of the top so that the tank could slide in from the back with the stuff sticking out of the top. Then I took an old broken VCR and a broken DVD player and gutted them leaving nothing but the tops of the cases and fronts of them. I screwed them together side by side and they were just long enough to cover the whole hole I cut out of the top of the TV. Then I cut out some of the metal from the sides that were attached so that it could rest perfectly on top of lighting. I never got around to hinging it, but the end product looked just like a dvd player and vcr sitting ontop of a console TV.

I am sure everything I have just explained is clear as mud, but give me break, it is hard to explain. I will try to get some pics to clear thing up a bit.
ChadTower:

I wasn't thinking of putting in an existing tank.  An existing tank is just 5 sheets of tempered glass, some silicone caulk, and some rails.  I figure a person could custom build a tank to fit perfectly in the TV. 

I'm assuming use of a wooden console TV here.  That would be strong enough to make it easy and would look good.

And if you're already making a custom inner tank, it would be possible to make the front side of it the front piece cut off a CRT.  The biggest challenge I would see is decontaminating the glass and if you can do it so that it is transparent and not scratched up.
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