Next week: "Give your bathroom some rustic charm. Remove the toilet bowl and replace it with a metal bucket. All your friends will marvel at the upscale/vintage, depression era feel!"

At least this one isn't as ridiculous as the crib spring re-purposed as a Christmas decoration yesterday.

Thank you, Particleman. My sentiments exactly.

HA! HA! PARTICLEMAN. I agree about the crib spring as a Christmas decor.

Oh come on you guys, this is fun. (Agreed on cribs-as-anything-but-cribs though. Go ahead and repurpose them for storage or something but as a decor element I've never seen it work...)

Funny... :-) I think it's fun and cool! Might be replacing my toilet bowl aswell. Cool idea!!

lol @particleman you made my day. Must have missed the bed spring Christmas ornament post lol.

Any links to that crib-christmas-thing you all hate so much?? Would like to see it... ;-)

The idea looks cool, but as a vintage audiophile, I gotta say I think this is a tragedy! Get your record player or receiver fixed or sell it on eBay to someone who will love it. Old audio equipment is almost always repairable. Please don't turn it into a coat rack.

BGR5928, I'm not a vintage audiophile and this still looks like a tragedy. Cute, but unless the equipment is far-gone or you happen to have a spare faceplate, fix it and use it or pass it on. I've seen musical instruments, beautiful vintage typewriters, cars, furniture, etc. similarly dismembered to create faddish items and it always hurts. My mom is a leading offender - she cuts the legs off tables, paints marquetry, rips old instruments to pieces for use in dioramas, and smashes up granny's china to make "mosaics". I find another casualty on every visit.

BGR5928, my sentiments exactly. My heart hurts looking at this.

I agree with the last three comments. If you want to do this, go on Ebay and buy a faceplate, don't destroy a perfectly good receiver (especially not a sansui) to make a coat rack. Ruining likely repairable equipment like that breaks my heart.

Brilliant!!

I'm with all the audiophiles here, if you wish to destroy or damage something beautiful, just become a so-called street artist or something and go spray-paint the Statue of Liberty or a nice Art Deco building. See how it feels.
There's just too much vandalism to end up with something that will look terrible in your house. You need to hack or DYI something, use IKEA or Target stuff, it's not build to last and it's mass-produced enough that nobody's going to suffer watching the clumsy result.

But then, when the headline says "record player" and what you see is a receiver, it's obvious the writer knows jackshit about audio equipment.

This isn't cute at all, it is a tragedy, as others said above. I shudder at the thought we'll next see magnificent and rare vintage speakers turned into planters and turntables morphed into lazy-susans.

why would i want to destroy such a great vintage object to make it a rack...

It's a cute idea for five seconds and then it turns sour. Aside from the objections noted above, I've never seen a stereo where the knobs were far enough apart to be useful as coat hooks.

It's total cruelty and vandalism and it doesn't even look good.
I hope the sansui survived.

As others have said, this is a receiver, not a record player. Secondly, if you are going to do this, chop up a POS dual receiver, not a quality vintage receiver.