Speaker pole

[Creighton]

Job well done there! Congrats.
Creighton

[Rebel]

Great job. Those disc make a great cook surface on an outside Turkey fryer after plugging the center hole.

[scalebowler]

Tried today at putting the logo from the drive-in that I bought the speakers from on the base but that did not go too well so I just painted over it. Maybe I'll decide to try again sometime  in the future but for now I'm just going to leave it as it is. Too bad I can't find a picture of their sign that's not a photograph. Could take that and print it out on some decal paper and just put a decal on.

[Creighton]

Send the image to my email. Should be able to fix it.
Creighton

[scalebowler]

Did not have them wired up yet but I did take the speakers outside to see how they looked with the rest of the setup. I think once they get wired up to light up they should look much better (and once I built a nicer stand to hold the sound equipment). Ended up watching Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

[sc1101]

Killer Klowns. LOL Look out for those cotton candy coccon's. Set up looks really good. The whole neighborhood will be over now.

[Creighton]

Cool, Great job.
Coming along well. Minor progress here as well.
Killer Klowns is right up there with several from the era.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mBVrY2B3zE
Appears to be in Italian but holds true to the original.
Creighton

[scalebowler]

Got my light socket for the junction box today and I think I discovered a design flaw with either the socket or the box. It seems that with the socket I got the terminal board in the center casts a shadow so that only half of the dome lights up and it looks really bad. So I plan to leave this one as it is and light the other speaker box that I have. (that one is only a light that lights up the pole so all I need is a low voltage light bulb. No big deal there)

[scalebowler]

Also have some plans for my theater. Since I just got a welder I was thinking about building a screen holder that will look similar to a real drive-in screen with some large letters hanging on the back that say "(what ever I decide to call it) Drive-in" and maybe a lighted sign showing what's playing. Figured it could be done quite easily using some electrical conduit and making it so the screen hooks onto the structure and everything else is hooked up to the structure (if that makes sense. I'll get some drawings made up soon). Also plan on replicating the drive way lights that they have at the drive-in. Figure I could make them out of some pipe fittings and some smaller diameter disk blades.

[scalebowler]

Got a chance to bring the speakers back to the drive-in. They worked GREAT! Pictures are not the best because the sun was going down pretty quick.



Think I pretty much nailed the height for the pole. Pretty good considering all I had was some pictures of my car and a couple random measurements from an old speaker pole installation drawing I found online