I can't understand some people complaining about the quality of this setup. You are watching "the post apocalyptic inventor", he has to make do with what he has, and he did an exelent job imo...
A bit of insulation, or anything soft inside the speaker enclosure would fix the boominess of the speakers. The boxes are a resonant cavity, and without something soft inside, certain sound ranges will come out much louder.
I and my friends used to take old am car radios and convert for home use, the receivers were very sensitive and had great audio, I still like to listen to OTR on Mp3, there are tons of old shows to be had for free, the shows are before my time but still great to hear, thanks for your great channel...
By the way, those off brand "shammy" cloths, which are made of rayon fibre make for excellent deadening material to put inside of a speaker. You don't need much, and it makes quite a difference!
I've just watched a couple of other boom box videos from great Scott and others. I'm coming back to yours because it totally kicks all their asses. What I love about your method is the up cycling of parts that would otherwise be landfill, and your post apocalyptic industrial aesthetic. Really love it. Keep on trucking brother.
+Matthias Wandel Doch, probier es mal! It's not that hard to please them. The important step is to gold plate everything and stick a price tag on it that's around 100x the real value. Everyone who can't hear the difference then just has untrained ears!
+The Post Apocalyptic Inventor Too bad. I enjoyed this project and you kept with the theme of using what you have and doing it on the cheap. Build what you want to build.
Oops, you said 8705 instead of 7805, when I worked in an electronics retailer I got a lot of people doing the same project and I quickly got sick of hearing about it. Glad to see you've done it properly as usual
This takes me WAY back. In about 1985 or 1986 My "Boom Box" was a Pioneer car stereo, with cassette of course, mounted in a box that used to hold a great big old "condenser" analyzer from the 1940's. I bolted a couple of 6X9's to the side of it that I had mounted in a couple small plywood boxes. I had it set up to either be plugged in to the wall with an internal power supply, or to run off of a small garden mower battery. I mounted a handle on top that was off an old tool box. I really didn't carry that beast far, but it WAS loud, which was all that mattered to me as someone about 16 or 17 years old.
I still listen to audio cassettes to this day since 1991, including records (vinyls), and CDs. My car stereo has a Radio, CD, and audio cassette players in it, and an iPod adapter installed at Best Buy back in 2010. Hell, I have a dual Sony tape deck, and a couple of VCRs, and three CRTs (2 TV sets (1 is a PVM), and a computer monitor).
I don't know anything about building resonance boxes for speakers, but i think adding a hole for free movement of air would give the speaker more freedom to move. Good video as always
Nice one.. When I was a kid back in the mid eighties, I had, in my room, a self-built wooden enclosure with an old mono autoradio and a power supply in it. The speaker boxes were also homemade, using loudspeakers from a scrapped ghettoblaster, including bass ports with a length of tube, and insulation material, as suggested by Matthias below.
I use a car radio too for the house. For a different reason- the radio inside has excellent sensitivity for weak signals we get in Australia, and good noise rejection too. I bought a brand new Kenwood for $60, already had blue tooth and line in, just needed speakers and power, I used Kenwood car speakers in a well designed box, and it performs like a hifi.
Hilarious sponsorship outreach. My son loved it. So did I. I think you meant to say "eight and seventy" instead of "eighty seven". I love that you find a way to make use of all this trash from the curb. I'm hoping that If I watch enough of your videos, one day I will be so inventive.
Hi, Thank you for this video. I managed to salvage couple of speakers same as the one you used from an old TV along with a TDA7266s audio amplifier chip. Now, you inspired me to do something with it.
I enjoy watching your videos. Yeah especially your accent and your abundant knowledge. It was difficult to see those cassettes being hammered and destroyed. May be that could be avoided. Just a thought.
I just did this for a sound system for my garage. Even down to the same concept of using scraps laying around to build it. How ever I used a old dell ATX psu. I'm not experiencing any noise like you said from the psu. I watched this video because I'm trying to figure out an antenna for it lol.
I tried to get a Nakamichi H/U when I was building car audio years back, but ending up with a good deal on an Eclipse 8054 (I think thats the right model). I have been playing with a lot of different amplifier boards lately, and have had a lot of fun with the TI TPA311x class of chips. They have outstanding performance, and with homemade active crossovers or DSP they can make some nice active multiway drivers. I haven't got around to printing my own boards yet, but you can get a Sure audio TPA3110d2 board for less then $10 USD.
You are so lucky to find stuff like this for waste. Here in the Netherlands, just across the border, nothing. I have to go and buy it from a second hand store and negotiate the price.
a little secret with modern car units (well, past about 2006 or so) all the chip amps in them are rated for up to 18V. i have litteraly a closet full of radios, from factory to aftermarket, and ALL of the aftermarket ones i have dont complain on 16V. can get over 20W into 4 ohms on 16V. they do run a little hotter, heatsink measured around 140-150f BUT since your only running 2 of the 4 channels when used at home, thats within the safe limits of the chips
I would love idea's on a board that will have chaser capabilities for l.e.d's that flash with the music . Oh !!! GREAT STUFF MAN !!! KEEP UP THE AWESOME HACKS !!!
love it. especially the end. :) in your testing with atx power supply, you might find that the noise is actually from ground loops from signal sources rather than switchers themselves being noisy. That's been the case in my experience and it is easy to dismiss it as "smps is noisy, thats why linear is usually used for audio applications" but it's good to check first before dismissing it.
I still use cassetes from time to time, but most importantly those motors are very interesting, the run at a constant speed, no matter the voltage. If you put them on a big cap they will run for a couple of minutes then stop abruptly
One time firend ask me for AUX for old radio in car, I just soldered jack connector wires to main board to main audio chip and with it my friend was able to connect smartphone to him 70s car audio :D In my home im using car audio 600W amplifier(lol, weight is about 10kg), and 200W subwoofer, both salvaged from dumpster, amplifier was working but there was broken RCA connectors, in subwoofer problem was with speaker internal wire, that is connected to moving part of speaker(sorry, idk right word). Dad also give me damaged, polish made 40W speakers, they had damaged rubber part that hold moving part of speaker in place, but I was able to order via internet restoration parts, only few euro. Im powering this system from extremly HQ, HI-END server SMPS with 685W of power, there is no noise, because this SMPS run at high Freq, above 200kHz so unhearable level, I paid only 20EUR for this supply that is worth of 200EUR+ So, I have very loud speaker system almost for free.
Thanks for the reply! It's been quite a while since I fooled around with these... I wonder in retail stores where they have the demo display of car stereos, what kind of power supply they are running... Might be worth snatching one up if a store goes out of business.
05:34 "Nobody uses cassettes in the 21ˢᵗ century anymore..." I can heavily argue with this! 😶 I have many cassettes and yes, I using them, even I record stuff onto empty tapes! I even have 3 car radios in my room, and I like to occasionally play cassettes with them! I like the analogue sound of tapes, and the feeling of sitting in front of a pair of stereo speakers, oh... 😏 📼
Joe Walsh would finish studio work...Go out to a Automobile to Listen.. 2.Many 1980s to 1990 Cars had Great Stero Set Ups..Cadiilac and Lincolns..$ 1000 systems..
just subscribed today after watching your video on building the Fallout 4 computer in a '1973 TV set... Your projects are amazing and I am taking notes. I would donate if I had more money.
nice build..the only problem is that the radio has a code you would have lo keep the transformer on at all times so the radio does not loose power..so if you could do a bypass of the code..only using hardware and no atmega or something like that it would be lovely
I wish I knew as much as you about electronic parts and how to use them. Lots of respect for your ability. How did you develop your interest in electronic parts and how to use them properly?
Awesome! ATX should be more than fine, if it can supply clean volts to run sensitive IC's in a computer it should easily provide clean power for a stereo...
+Brian C Who wants to hear the fan noise when listening to music quietly, also pc power supplies are rated for hundred of watts and their efficiency is often not that great so you going to waste a lot electricity. Also you may get switching noise on the audio thrown in free.
+bazrazin1 I first measured the dimensions of the loudspeaker with a vernier caliper. Then I used a pair of compasses (I mean the "drawing tool" by that name) and a set square to draw the outlines on the piece of wood with a pen. Then I drilled a few holes with a diameter of around 10 mm into the area that I wanted to cut out. I then used those holes to insert the jigsaw blade and then I simply cut along the lines with my jigsaw. After that I ground off the edges with sanding paper.
+The Post Apocalyptic Inventor y, that is a quite complicated procedure, that's why spherical speakers r made, the oval shape is just to accommodate in a tight space, I still have that job pending, also do not have those tools, thanks for the explanation BTW.
+bazrazin1 put a clear piece of plastic over the front, trace the speaker with a marker. cut it out with scissors then us as your template to mark your holes.
One question, those boxes you used for the speakers you made, looked like old speaker housings, where they? If you get the time/materials to hand, I'd love to see a detailed video on making speakers from scrap parts.
Love your videos and your approach. I am learning a great deal. One request/suggestion. The 3300 uF capacitor on the power supply is quite large and I dont yet understand exactly what caps are doing for the circuit. If, in future videos, you could speak to that more about how these components are sized. Was that just what was provided by the Halogen lamp or did you have to size it by some other criteria? Also practical bodger insights would be welcome, like if you did not have any of that size how you would make decisions about putting two smaller ones together in parallel? Would it be important that they match or just add up to the final desired value. I love what you are doing with this old stuff and more of your insights and practical design considerations would be lovely.
+Steve Clark I won't make a general statement about that, as there are many different manufacturers, standards, models and vintages. All I can say is: This model, as well as the other models that I have worked on so far didn't need a constant voltage supply with regards to the "code" safety feature. Once I had deactivated the code feature, the stereos didn't ask for the code, no matter how long or how often they were disconnected from a power source. I din't check for all "presets", but as far as I can tell, they as well don't require a constant supply voltage to be stored. For example: The "quick buttons" for the different stations were not deleted by cutting off the power. There might be other presets though. For that case there is a second +12V pin in the connector that would supply the stereo in "Idle Mode".
I'm only going by my own personal experience really but most of the car stereos I've had needed a constant live feed. Crazy really, why have another item putting a drain on the battery especially if you don't use the vehicle often enough to recharge the battery.
+Steve Clark Yes it's indeed an odd feeling to have a consumer that constantly drains on the battery. I haven't measured it, but I can only guess, that the idle power consumption is very low though. If a car would be sitting for a longer period of time, it could still be a problem though.
+The Post Apocalyptic Inventor it could be a problem if the car was sitting unused for a long period of time, but it is a small drain and there are other things that drain the battery while the car is unused too such as alarms and immobilisers etc. i presume. If you only drive your car once a month, it's a good idea to use some kind of trickle charger. Security code on power loss is obviously a security feature as having car stereos stolen was once common so if it is locked out as soon as it's disconnected you theoretically need the paperwork that came with the car to use it again making it worthless to sell. These days you can get security codes easily online anyway and car stereos are often specific to one model of car and difficult to remove without taking the whole dashboard apart so it's not as common a problem. This particular stereo looks old enough to be from the time when stereo theft was a big thing and security was not. I remember having a stereo where the security feature was that you could unclip the fascia and take it with you and what was left was a blank panel with a flashing LED to look like an alarm. This was in the days when people installed their own alarms and they were set off every time it rained etc... good times.
+difflocktwo They are designed for light mechanical work I think. You get them for around 1€ a pair and they can last for weeks or months if you treat them well.
+Liam Harrison "Planned Obsolescence" at work. The radio might be a bit older, but nobody can tell me, that there wasn't a better solution, when this device was made. I'm sure, that I got this for free, because the former owner couldn't read the display anymore.
12:19 No its not only in the video :D 17:05 Most of the times the noise can be easily filtered. Loved how you smashed that cassete drive & cassettes :D
Nice job,Wouldn't it have been better to integrate those small speakers into the same metal enclosure as the player,Seems like the external speakers are wasted space when there was plenty of room on the metal enclosure for them.
I found this video to be very enjoyable to watch. I have subscribed! I have a wonderment though. Would it be possible to see the same thing done, but with new high end car audio? I would like to build one using high power speakers and a head unit with a high power amplifier. I'm curious mostly about what kind of power supply I could purchase to power such a project?
I can't understand some people complaining about the quality of this setup. You are watching "the post apocalyptic inventor", he has to make do with what he has, and he did an exelent job imo...
He even says that he works with, what he has.
Your knowledge of English never fails to amaze me. I know skilled machinists who do not even know what the word "swarf" means. Fun video, as always.
A bit of insulation, or anything soft inside the speaker enclosure would fix the boominess of the speakers. The boxes are a resonant cavity, and without something soft inside, certain sound ranges will come out much louder.
+Matthias Wandel I actually put old rags inside. I forgot to show that in the video.
+Matthias Wandel I saw your speaker project long back and I've been seeing your Pantorouter build. Man of Skill...I truly admire you.
I and my friends used to take old am car radios and convert for home use, the receivers were very sensitive and had great audio, I still like to listen to OTR on Mp3, there are tons of old shows to be had for free, the shows are before my time but still great to hear, thanks for your great channel...
I think the industrial look is phenomenal. It almost has that Fallout look to it. Great Job!
By the way, those off brand "shammy" cloths, which are made of rayon fibre make for excellent deadening material to put inside of a speaker. You don't need much, and it makes quite a difference!
I've just watched a couple of other boom box videos from great Scott and others. I'm coming back to yours because it totally kicks all their asses. What I love about your method is the up cycling of parts that would otherwise be landfill, and your post apocalyptic industrial aesthetic. Really love it. Keep on trucking brother.
Reading the comments, I see that this video attracts plenty of "audiophile" type logic. I guess I should avoid making videos about things audio!
+Matthias Wandel
Doch, probier es mal! It's not that hard to please them. The important step is to gold plate everything and stick a price tag on it that's around 100x the real value. Everyone who can't hear the difference then just has untrained ears!
You should still do it Matthias, make some wooden speaker cones!
+Matthias Wandel That's my philosophy as well. It's the reason why I normally don't make a lot of audio related projects.
+The Post Apocalyptic Inventor Too bad. I enjoyed this project and you kept with the theme of using what you have and doing it on the cheap. Build what you want to build.
You should have used that ATX power supply with no decoupling caps just to get them all rilled up.
fantastic work mr von ziegler, a well done finished project doing it the hard way by using the cassette player as the donor parts master.
so many modifications to the tape deck car stereo good job. and it's awesome you using old electronics for parts and making things work.
I am a rare one I still listen to 8 tracks and cassets. I do like the idea of adding rca and other options. Very nice information.
Oops, you said 8705 instead of 7805, when I worked in an electronics retailer I got a lot of people doing the same project and I quickly got sick of hearing about it. Glad to see you've done it properly as usual
This takes me WAY back. In about 1985 or 1986 My "Boom Box" was a Pioneer car stereo, with cassette of course, mounted in a box that used to hold a great big old "condenser" analyzer from the 1940's. I bolted a couple of 6X9's to the side of it that I had mounted in a couple small plywood boxes. I had it set up to either be plugged in to the wall with an internal power supply, or to run off of a small garden mower battery. I mounted a handle on top that was off an old tool box. I really didn't carry that beast far, but it WAS loud, which was all that mattered to me as someone about 16 or 17 years old.
I still listen to audio cassettes to this day since 1991, including records (vinyls), and CDs. My car stereo has a Radio, CD, and audio cassette players in it, and an iPod adapter installed at Best Buy back in 2010. Hell, I have a dual Sony tape deck, and a couple of VCRs, and three CRTs (2 TV sets (1 is a PVM), and a computer monitor).
I'm using a car amplifier and a fitting subwoofer+speakers for months now and everything is working very nice
I have hundreds of audiobooks on tape. Some of which aren't available anymore anywhere else.
Slowly but surely digitising them.
I like the metal case. Thanks for sharing!
I don't know anything about building resonance boxes for speakers, but i think adding a hole for free movement of air would give the speaker more freedom to move. Good video as always
You done a splendid job regarding transformation of the car stereo, well done.🙏
Nice one.. When I was a kid back in the mid eighties, I had, in my room, a self-built wooden enclosure with an old mono autoradio and a power supply in it. The speaker boxes were also homemade, using loudspeakers from a scrapped ghettoblaster, including bass ports with a length of tube, and insulation material, as suggested by Matthias below.
I use a car radio too for the house. For a different reason- the radio inside has excellent sensitivity for weak signals we get in Australia, and good noise rejection too. I bought a brand new Kenwood for $60, already had blue tooth and line in, just needed speakers and power, I used Kenwood car speakers in a well designed box, and it performs like a hifi.
11:39 - That music sounds like the stuff they play inside an Irish pub toilet while I'm taking a sh*t...
Hilarious sponsorship outreach. My son loved it. So did I.
I think you meant to say "eight and seventy" instead of "eighty seven".
I love that you find a way to make use of all this trash from the curb. I'm hoping that If I watch enough of your videos, one day I will be so inventive.
+tomalcolm Hehe. I love the picture of you and your son laughing about my silliness :D
Hi,
Thank you for this video.
I managed to salvage couple of speakers same as the one you used from an old TV along with a TDA7266s audio amplifier chip. Now, you inspired me to do something with it.
Well done. I enjoyed the end very much.
I love your videos and your german accent
Your channel is something that I was searching. Thanks for the upload.
I enjoy watching your videos. Yeah especially your accent and your abundant knowledge. It was difficult to see those cassettes being hammered and destroyed. May be that could be avoided. Just a thought.
Great video, very detailed. Plus great guy, clear and good sense of humor. Good work mate!
I am keep using cassetes today!! Don't laugh and DON"T destroy cassettes.... Save cassettes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still use them as well :)
+Α. Παυλίδης I've many cassettes too, and old machines to play them on. A sort of Sanctuary for old audio things, my house :-)
Who's judging? Some of my favorite cassette albums were never released on CD, let alone digital...
He is crazy. He should send his cassettes to me and I will record over them !
Α. Παυλίδης I converted a broken audio cassette to a jack- to - tape adapter
Very nice video......especially the last part, therapeutic
I just did this for a sound system for my garage. Even down to the same concept of using scraps laying around to build it. How ever I used a old dell ATX psu. I'm not experiencing any noise like you said from the psu. I watched this video because I'm trying to figure out an antenna for it lol.
I tried to get a Nakamichi H/U when I was building car audio years back, but ending up with a good deal on an Eclipse 8054 (I think thats the right model). I have been playing with a lot of different amplifier boards lately, and have had a lot of fun with the TI TPA311x class of chips. They have outstanding performance, and with homemade active crossovers or DSP they can make some nice active multiway drivers. I haven't got around to printing my own boards yet, but you can get a Sure audio TPA3110d2 board for less then $10 USD.
Finally you start doing some blacksmithing videos!
+T3hJones Lesson 1: "Cold Working of Steel"
You are so lucky to find stuff like this for waste. Here in the Netherlands, just across the border, nothing. I have to go and buy it from a second hand store and negotiate the price.
If you use a ground loop isolation transformer for each channel between your Bluetooth module and the amplifier, you can eliminate that buzzing noise.
Very nice job. You are one smart cookie.
a little secret with modern car units (well, past about 2006 or so) all the chip amps in them are rated for up to 18V. i have litteraly a closet full of radios, from factory to aftermarket, and ALL of the aftermarket ones i have dont complain on 16V. can get over 20W into 4 ohms on 16V. they do run a little hotter, heatsink measured around 140-150f BUT since your only running 2 of the 4 channels when used at home, thats within the safe limits of the chips
Excellent project! Interesting, factual and funny video. One of your best.
I like him he works with what he has.
I would love idea's on a board that will have chaser capabilities for l.e.d's that flash with the music .
Oh !!!
GREAT STUFF MAN !!!
KEEP UP THE AWESOME HACKS !!!
i love the way it looks
Sounded like the start of a good mad-scientist "Muahahaha!" laugh there @ 20:17
love it. especially the end. :)
in your testing with atx power supply, you might find that the noise is actually from ground loops from signal sources rather than switchers themselves being noisy. That's been the case in my experience and it is easy to dismiss it as "smps is noisy, thats why linear is usually used for audio applications" but it's good to check first before dismissing it.
Like your videos, gives me a lot of inspiration for recycling electronics.
Superb project sir :D
Dude, you're GOD. Your projects are KILLER!
I still use cassetes from time to time, but most importantly those motors are very interesting, the run at a constant speed, no matter the voltage. If you put them on a big cap they will run for a couple of minutes then stop abruptly
One time firend ask me for AUX for old radio in car, I just soldered jack connector wires to main board to main audio chip and with it my friend was able to connect smartphone to him 70s car audio :D
In my home im using car audio 600W amplifier(lol, weight is about 10kg), and 200W subwoofer, both salvaged from dumpster, amplifier was working but there was broken RCA connectors, in subwoofer problem was with speaker internal wire, that is connected to moving part of speaker(sorry, idk right word).
Dad also give me damaged, polish made 40W speakers, they had damaged rubber part that hold moving part of speaker in place, but I was able to order via internet restoration parts, only few euro.
Im powering this system from extremly HQ, HI-END server SMPS with 685W of power, there is no noise, because this SMPS run at high Freq, above 200kHz so unhearable level, I paid only 20EUR for this supply that is worth of 200EUR+
So, I have very loud speaker system almost for free.
Sir you are a maddddddd scientist !
Thanks for the reply! It's been quite a while since I fooled around with these... I wonder in retail stores where they have the demo display of car stereos, what kind of power supply they are running... Might be worth snatching one up if a store goes out of business.
How many amps should the power supply be? So I can be on the lookout for them so save.
Thats some McGuyver Stuff there! Cool
05:34 "Nobody uses cassettes in the 21ˢᵗ century anymore..."
I can heavily argue with this! 😶 I have many cassettes and yes, I using them, even I record stuff onto empty tapes! I even have 3 car radios in my room, and I like to occasionally play cassettes with them! I like the analogue sound of tapes, and the feeling of sitting in front of a pair of stereo speakers, oh... 😏 📼
Good fun and useful information. Somehow we need to get you into country music from West Texas.
Joe Walsh would finish studio work...Go out to a Automobile to Listen..
2.Many 1980s to 1990 Cars had Great Stero Set Ups..Cadiilac and Lincolns..$ 1000 systems..
just a small comment: to reduce the voltage out of the rectifier, just put two or three in series diodes to drop down with arround 1,2 or 1,8V :)
just subscribed today after watching your video on building the Fallout 4 computer in a '1973 TV set... Your projects are amazing and I am taking notes. I would donate if I had more money.
been wondering on that for a while, thanks!
nice build..the only problem is that the radio has a code you would have lo keep the transformer on at all times so the radio does not loose power..so if you could do a bypass of the code..only using hardware and no atmega or something like that it would be lovely
Awesome, and nice destruction on the end ;)
Thumbs up :D
Alex
hey, nc to see you are back and uploading videos! how was your trip?
+Stratos Vasilas My trip was great. I will talk about it in the next Lab Report. I guess that will be in a few days.
Nice work!
great video by an awesome man , thanks
Is there possible to connect faceplate itself to my home amplifier ? If possible ...please let me know about pin strategy
End Part video shows - Creative to Destructive person!!
I wish I knew as much as you about electronic parts and how to use them. Lots of respect for your ability. How did you develop your interest in electronic parts and how to use them properly?
why not built encrypted card with reader from the magnetic reader and the tape?
how can you remove the background noise from aux?
Did you remove the battery from the bluetooth receiver? If not, will this create an issue in a few years when the battery goes bad?
Really enjoy your vids, great work.
Awesome! ATX should be more than fine, if it can supply clean volts to run sensitive IC's in a computer it should easily provide clean power for a stereo...
A cap for current spikes could get necessary tho.
+Brian C Who wants to hear the fan noise when listening to music quietly, also pc power supplies are rated for hundred of watts and their efficiency is often not that great so you going to waste a lot electricity. Also you may get switching noise on the audio thrown in free.
why not run each loudspeaker with an 8ohm resistor in parallel to it to half the resistance?
I'll like to find out how you fix the feedback noise from Bluetooth as I have it my car stereo also.
how much ampere transformer r u use in this project
I want to add my old lg tone to my car stereo cd player since I'm not using it. but I don't know what to look for to connect it.
what is that rca block (the little silver panel with all the rca connections on it) used for in your bench setup? is it just like a giant hub?
What is the song name starting at 11:35? I can't find it.
How to cut the oval shape for the speakers, I also do have those from my TV set, want to utilize them.
+bazrazin1 I would do it with circle cutter thing for a drill, but I think that either jigsaw or angle grinder would do the job fine.
+bazrazin1 I first measured the dimensions of the loudspeaker with a vernier caliper. Then I used a pair of compasses (I mean the "drawing tool" by that name) and a set square to draw the outlines on the piece of wood with a pen. Then I drilled a few holes with a diameter of around 10 mm into the area that I wanted to cut out. I then used those holes to insert the jigsaw blade and then I simply cut along the lines with my jigsaw. After that I ground off the edges with sanding paper.
+The Post Apocalyptic Inventor y, that is a quite complicated procedure, that's why spherical speakers r made, the oval shape is just to accommodate in a tight space, I still have that job pending, also do not have those tools, thanks for the explanation BTW.
+bazrazin1 put a clear piece of plastic over the front, trace the speaker with a marker. cut it out with scissors then us as your template to mark your holes.
+Sirus that was the answer I was looking for.
epic and it looks like something out of Fallout!
The Post Apocalyptic Inventor+Can you do a shop tour plz ?
Loved the ending!!!
One question, those boxes you used for the speakers you made, looked like old speaker housings, where they?
If you get the time/materials to hand, I'd love to see a detailed video on making speakers from scrap parts.
What bluetooth module are you using in this build?
Love your videos and your approach. I am learning a great deal. One request/suggestion. The 3300 uF capacitor on the power supply is quite large and I dont yet understand exactly what caps are doing for the circuit. If, in future videos, you could speak to that more about how these components are sized. Was that just what was provided by the Halogen lamp or did you have to size it by some other criteria? Also practical bodger insights would be welcome, like if you did not have any of that size how you would make decisions about putting two smaller ones together in parallel? Would it be important that they match or just add up to the final desired value. I love what you are doing with this old stuff and more of your insights and practical design considerations would be lovely.
And now I find your RFID zapper video which addresses a lot of this. Thanks.
What if I want to save cassette player?
Imagine what could be constructed from all the world's junk!
+Enig Ma From all the world's junk? We could probably build a spaceship and fly to mars with it :D !
Do you leave the mains power to this radio constantly on then?Most car radios need a constant 12v feed to retain presets and code don't they.
+Steve Clark I won't make a general statement about that, as there are many different manufacturers, standards, models and vintages. All I can say is: This model, as well as the other models that I have worked on so far didn't need a constant voltage supply with regards to the "code" safety feature. Once I had deactivated the code feature, the stereos didn't ask for the code, no matter how long or how often they were disconnected from a power source. I din't check for all "presets", but as far as I can tell, they as well don't require a constant supply voltage to be stored. For example: The "quick buttons" for the different stations were not deleted by cutting off the power. There might be other presets though. For that case there is a second +12V pin in the connector that would supply the stereo in "Idle Mode".
I'm only going by my own personal experience really but most of the car stereos I've had needed a constant live feed. Crazy really, why have another item putting a drain on the battery especially if you don't use the vehicle often enough to recharge the battery.
+Steve Clark Yes it's indeed an odd feeling to have a consumer that constantly drains on the battery. I haven't measured it, but I can only guess, that the idle power consumption is very low though. If a car would be sitting for a longer period of time, it could still be a problem though.
+The Post Apocalyptic Inventor
it could be a problem if the car was sitting unused for a long period of time, but it is a small drain and there are other things that drain the battery while the car is unused too such as alarms and immobilisers etc. i presume. If you only drive your car once a month, it's a good idea to use some kind of trickle charger.
Security code on power loss is obviously a security feature as having car stereos stolen was once common so if it is locked out as soon as it's disconnected you theoretically need the paperwork that came with the car to use it again making it worthless to sell. These days you can get security codes easily online anyway and car stereos are often specific to one model of car and difficult to remove without taking the whole dashboard apart so it's not as common a problem. This particular stereo looks old enough to be from the time when stereo theft was a big thing and security was not.
I remember having a stereo where the security feature was that you could unclip the fascia and take it with you and what was left was a blank panel with a flashing LED to look like an alarm. This was in the days when people installed their own alarms and they were set off every time it rained etc... good times.
How long do those gloves last? What are designed for? Interesting light duty gloves with nice finger tips.
+difflocktwo They are designed for light mechanical work I think. You get them for around 1€ a pair and they can last for weeks or months if you treat them well.
your videos are good
Hi there! The Philips car stereo, was it made in Belgium? I don't know if you can tell? Loved the video by the way!!
I just love non replaceable incandescent bulbs.
+Liam Harrison "Planned Obsolescence" at work. The radio might be a bit older, but nobody can tell me, that there wasn't a better solution, when this device was made. I'm sure, that I got this for free, because the former owner couldn't read the display anymore.
And I still use Cassettes Dear - from 1981 to 1995 era - work perfectly fine on ken wood deck (purchase in trash) !
Fantastic!
That's a very informative video, now I know what to do with my old car-stereo. Do you not like cassette tapes?
12:19 No its not only in the video :D
17:05 Most of the times the noise can be easily filtered.
Loved how you smashed that cassete drive & cassettes :D
cassette drives and tapes should _NOT_ be destroyed
Alex Jamieson There are millions of them in auto wrecking yards across North America.
Millions....
Nice job,Wouldn't it have been better to integrate those small speakers into the same metal enclosure as the player,Seems like the external speakers are wasted space when there was plenty of room on the metal enclosure for them.
Woah, fascinating.
Kids in Africa could had eaten that cassette deck...
Aaahahahahahaha!
Is that a joke? I'm of low iq
@@ghart56 that would be the better way in scenario like this
I found this video to be very enjoyable to watch. I have subscribed! I have a wonderment though. Would it be possible to see the same thing done, but with new high end car audio? I would like to build one using high power speakers and a head unit with a high power amplifier. I'm curious mostly about what kind of power supply I could purchase to power such a project?