well i guess putting a car stereo in a custom case is good.

Posted at 12:10 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by monkeyslayer56

So that’s where the sign went…

Posted at 12:21 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by JD

Nice, but were do I put in the cassette?

Posted at 12:58 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by Kyoorius

now where did i stash my 8-tracks?

Posted at 1:57 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by johnsora61

I did one out of iron bracket, added wheels and a fold out handle ’cause it got too heavy. Used it while I was at UPS in Indy. all it had was a ford factory radio, but i gave it to a kid who put in a car cd/radio. wish i had it so i could post picks. my job took me outside so i had to do a little waterproofing. it worked great, had sitting on the back of a tug.

Posted at 2:33 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by aztraph

Nifty project. Terrible post title.

Posted at 2:53 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by M4CGYV3R

Well…. I built one of these when I was a kid, like 20 years ago and it wasn’t a big deal then, so I’m thinking it’s still not a big deal now.

Hell I even mounted one on a motor scooter once after building a converter to step up the voltage so it would run the car stereo and the CB radio I had strapped to the box I made for the luggage rack (not like you can call that a rack but I digress).

While this is a great way to learn about electricity and such, and how to wire up a car stereo, there’s nothing ingenious about this project, and this post is another glaring example of the lackluster crap that you’re willing to post here in an effort to fill pages.

For god sake’s man, leave this kind of kids tinkering for instructables.

Posted at 3:37 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by Zymastorik

Everyone should steal road signs – after all everyone (everyone with a job anyways) just loves higher taxes.

Posted at 3:38 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by VonSkippy

Hope you have a receipt for that road sign.

If not, you’ll probably get to see quite a few of them when you’re on that chain gang picking up litter on the roadsides.

Posted at 5:04 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by pookey

@VonSkippy- The sign wasn’t stolen, it was salvaged from a burn pile. There was a large collection of damaged signs being burnt. I cut the enclosure out of a part of the sign that was still ok.

I Don’t think that cost either of us any tax dollars. (It did help out the environment in some small way though.)

@pookey- Sorry, no receipt- tie me up!

Posted at 7:38 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by Sam

Sweet boombox, job well done on this one.

And as always, haters all be hate’n because they don’t have any bad ass portable thump devices themselves.

Posted at 8:21 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by Tof

i used to make really nice ones like that to sell

Posted at 8:38 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by mikula

I’ve always thought about doing this. It’s nice to see someone follow through so that I don’t have to throw money at it (lol).

I’d definitely like to see more of the true hacks (such as this one), and less full fledged projects, like some of the things I’ve been seeing on here lately.

Posted at 9:20 pm on Oct 20th, 2009 by James

The tweeters and bass air intakes positions should be inverted as the human ear can find easily the direction a high frequency comes from, but as the frequency drops this becomes harder (to the point we have single channel subwoofers on stereo systems). That way the stereo image would be widened.
Nice build though. Boom boxes are one of the few things I miss from the 80’s.

Posted at 12:34 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by asdf

I hope they calculate right box volume for speaker, because if not they lost a lot of sound quality and power

Posted at 2:33 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by therian

Using a road sign looks good and gives it an urban feel. I might borrow that idea ;)

Posted at 2:56 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by jim

For a party last month my friend needed me to set him up a sound system.
We had:
2 car amps
2 normal amps
1 surround sound system (Special amp and 5 speakers)
2 car subwoofers.
Decks

I bought an 800w PSU and managed to hook up the car equipment to the normal equipment resulting in 2 subs and about 8 speakers.
It was bad ass.

Posted at 3:39 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by George Stone

did you separate the left and right air cavities inside? you know, so the woofers aren’t fighting each other, even with the breath holes they could still interfere with each other, nice build btw.

Posted at 4:40 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by vikki

I’d really like to know about the power-supply side of this project, and how it works with the battery charging and so on ..

Posted at 6:11 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Jay Vaughan

@asdf- thanks for the tip, I hadn’t thought about that at all.

@therian- Yeh, I measured the volume of the speaker enclosures that originally housed the speakers, and made sure to mimic that in the boombox.

@vikki- There are two separators inside that divide up speaker/amp+battery/speaker.

@Jay- The battery system is really simple, the stereo and battery are hooked up in parallel to two screw/bananna plug terminals on the top, which allow a car battery charger to be connected. It can also be hooked up to solar panels, which I did while working in the summer.

Posted at 8:47 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Sam

And by “salvaged parts” you mean “stolen road signage.”

Posted at 10:48 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Maj