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Make Toast Cooler by Modding a VHS Player into a Working Toaster

Sep 28, 2012 03:51 PM
VHS-themed toast beside a VCR and a bag of toast.

Toasters can do so much more than toast bread. A toaster oven can make your Halloween jack-o'-lanterns look pretty creepy, and you can even mod one into a reflow oven. But what about a regular ol' toaster? Well, you can turn one into a working NES console—or you can keep its bread-toasting functionality by just making it look cooler, like Instructables user lemonie did with his VHS player toaster mod.

Why is this a MacGyverism? Because more than likely you have everything you need already sitting around at home, like a VHS video player, a toaster, a metal sheet of some sort, and epoxy. For tools, you just need a Dremel, pliers, knife, scissors, and a screwdriver. Pretty simple, right?

With a little work, you can go from boring ol' this:

To this:

Now, if someone would just figure out how to mod their junk RRODed Xbox into a toaster...

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