you are a hero been wanting to do this with an old car stereo and this was randomly recommended to me.. you even include a list of everything needed in discription. this is too perfect

5:56 4 hands confirmed, he's clearly a lizard

That charger is overkill, they make much simpler and cheaper chargers for lead-acid batteries. Also, the 30-amp power supply is way overkill, that radio probably only draws a maximum of 10 amps at full volume. Although, the wiring job is done well and looks very professional.

6:15 "Because safety first." *immediately drills into the box directly towards the SLA*

4:57 ablawablaweeblawhlradio?

In the netherlands we call it “radiokist”, we use them for scouting. I have 2 of them

I built a car stereo boombox around this same time you made this video so that I can use it with my outdoor projector system and have never felt happy with the results. Seeing this video, now I know why. I have always called mine version 1 expecting at some point in the future to remake it, I have a feeling that time is coming very soon. Thanks for the video, gave me some great ideas on how to improve the one I made previously.

Takes me back to builds I did in the 90s. Made a few bucks doing it and rekindles a desire to do more current builds.

Very impressive and beautiful design as well. Good job guy!!!!

Made one myself using lipo batteries, a 18cm sub, two hybrid high/low speakers and one 8cm mid speaker . I added a bluetooth module and leds. Love it, so thanks for the idea.would you like to see vids of it? Tho it draws 12amps avg You should also seal the boxes lid with some rubber, in my case it boosted the sound a lot.

I have to admit, I really enjoy watching all your projects. When you are ever in Los Angeles USA. I am taking you out to have a Great Steak and Beer. Great Show!!! Bravo!!!

my friends and I use to do this back in the late 80's. We made a portable box with 4 12" speakers and another box for a car stereo and amp and powered it with a car battery. We would use my friends parents mini van, take out all the back seats, and would cruse down the strip. Now we didn't care that we was in a mini van, when your 16 and 17 years old, thumping music that can easily be heard 50 feet away and hanging with your friends was a blast. AAaahhhh... the good Ol' days.........

Great project! One addition could be some solar cells with a boost converter on the top of the box to take advantage of the sun in a picnic or something!

Great Scott!! That is cool!

Wow! As always, your work is amazing and beautiful. I wish I had your talent to be able to make such fantastic things. I'd give anything to own something so special-something that cannot be purchased at any store. I don't know what to say. Thanks for sharing and making me jealous! You rock!

I made a similar boombox about 25 years ago. Several in fact. Seeing your video, reminds me I could use a CD player boombox with an input for an MP3 player, or SD cards..

I love your content. Your radio uses an average of below 2 amps, plus under 3 amps for the battery charger. Screw it he says! Enormous 40A power supply to power it 😂😂

Very good mounting, but your boombox needs a VU graph, Mr. Scott!

that's the most quality electronics I've seen on one of these builds sofar.. Well done!

Great Video! Ive had the same exact idea floating around in my head for the last couple months or so,but never got around too starting it.

Could you provide a full picture of your wiring diagram?

Must have been 1965, or perhaps 64 not sure which, when I saw my first car radio run from 110 volts. It didn't work great, but after some tinkering, we got it playing well enough so listen to the KOMA Good Guys (KOMA was a very powerful radio station in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Everyone in the Midwest tuned their AM Radios to 1520 anytime after the sun sat!) My buddy didn't have a radio in his bedroom, and wanted to be able to listen after his huge family (mom-dad and 8 brothers and sisters!) went to bed. So we visited the midnight auto supply (we broke into the local wrecking yard after dark) and acquired (stole) a car radio from an old Chrysler (they had fancy radios!) to power it, first we tried an old battery charger (found at the local dump ground) but the rectification and filtration were just not that good and there was a Lot of noise over the speakers, (2 count 'em 2) front and back speakers! So we tinkered some more, and I think we finally found a way to filter the power from my old Lyonal train transformer through an old motorcycle battery, and at long last we had radio! While at first all we could get was the local AM radio station, another visit to the midnight auto supply found us with a pair of rear mount radio antenna's with very long cables that allowed us to mount one antenna on each window of his bedroom, we ran a ground wire from the normal mounting points where the antennas grounded out on the car body, and drove a six foot long copper rod into the ground. That night, we had KOMA and the Beetles blasted away through his bedroom. We thought we were in rock and roll paradise! Then his dad came in and saw what we had built. Now he was an old fart, he had farmed most of his life, and was probably the most honest man in town, so all the parts from the Midnight auto supply were returned and the music died. Nice to see that our idea survived. We were lucky his old man didn't find our stash of 8mm porn films, secretly ordered from the back pages of some men's magazine. Man those were disappointing, all they consisted of were some very blurry black and white films of naked women playing baseball! If you ran them at 1/2 speed though you could almost see nipple!

The boombox I built like that back in 1995 still works great, though it is on its third battery. Those lead-acid batteries only last 3-5 years. I used a Radio Shack 40 watt EQ booster, two 6.5 inch 2-way speakers, and originally a 15AH battery from Science Surplus. Box was made from 3/8 inch plywood, glued together and L brackets for corner support. I meant to put in hinges for the lid, but just having it press fit into some weather stripping held it in place pretty well. I plugged my Walkman into the aux input, and enjoyed my favorite tapes. Of course now I play my music from my phone's headphone out.

Wow this takes me back. I made something similar with a radio and speakers from my mums Austin and used a neighbours motorbike battery for power. The box I put it in doubled as the seat on my go cart. I was about 10. Good times :D

If you put a piece of rubber or foam on the border of the lid and fasten it with screws you will get much louder and deeper sound because no air pressure is escaping. Please try it, you will hear a big difference!

what are the magnets in this design?))) it is very funny. The cover must jump from bass sounds. And you need to make either the phase inverter or the system of "closed box" . But in any case, to do the cover tightly closed(latches) sealed

Love your narration... like you said "such a genius"

You're a genius. I respect this work a lot. Keep it up.

use a small cooler for a box.. it will sound better, and it has a handle...

Hey, could you do something with Solarpanels?

This man is an absolute legend

Hello Scott, i love the videos that you make, i've learned so much thanks to you. Keep it going, you're awesome.

That wasn't you during the construction was it? I see a right handed person! Busted!

4:57 "at a level above the radio"

Thank you for sharing this with the UKposts community...

Very cool Scott, electronics and woodworking are two skills that are very handy to have.

I bet when you put a song that bangs the cd starts to scratch

WOW you use very few hot glue this time

It did inspire me, so I built a similar project, a powerful boombox without a car radio, I used a 30w amplifier, some good quality speakers and I also put an Inverter so I can use the large capacity of my 18650 Li-Ion battery pack for powering something I might need.

This is a very nice project you did. The beauty of it is, if the car radio would break, all you would need to do is replace the radio and radio wiring harness. All of the other wiring would be in place already.

Ich denk noch die ganze Zeit: Irgendwie klingt der Akzent deutsch. Und dann 4:31 BÄM, Pflege-Öl. xD

is that the 3d printer power suply?

your a scientist/enginner....respect....your vids are amazing and accurate.

you are a craftsman scott!!!

I love how you say "you might be thinking ...." and I'm over here like nah cuh I have no idea what your talking about lololol

Mehr deutsch geht nicht🤣🤣🤣🤣Aber gutes video

Awesome job dude. I do a lot of stuff with Remote Control equipment and this would be a great addition to my hobby bench when I go to events. Well, something similar anyway.

Alter du bist der Chef!!! Danke!!!

*Wow, cool tutorial. If only I knew what the hell you was talking about with electrics.* *Me on ITV Breaking News, ''man tries to create boom box but blew himself up''! LOL.*

Instead of the switch, why not use relays? You could have set up the relays directly to the power supply. Whenever there is power from the power supply, it could disconnect the battery and connect it directly to the power supply to allow the battery to charge and it would do this automatically instead of having to add funky switches in the front. Then the only switch you would need is one connected to the ignition wire of the stereo so you could turn the car stereo on and off.

Thats really cool, Im gonna have to try an make this for my setup it looks awesome! great video.

Well done! Keep it up!

some cheap and good car radio with usb and aux ports?

Does the pitch of your voice only hover between C#3, D#3 and F3? you desperately need a voice module upgrade.

The first and best homemade. Car Radio pulls a lot, but the Result is the safest and most well thought-out that I've seen. I would try the Car Radio against a small Amplifier based on 12V and the corresponding Audio Transmitter. All TOP so LIKE

I started building mine in May 2015 and kinda finished it in April 2016. Now I have a portable bluetooth speaker with radio that goes for 8 hours of music on a decent volume. I got to use a lot of old parts that were laying around. My handlebar is from an old bus, my speakers are Magnats from 1998 or so. My charging system is an external automatic charger that goes into mains and is directly connected to the battery via XLR plug. The whole system weighs about 12 kg ...... But that's okay, it'll help you become super strong over time ;) I will do a UKposts video at some point but that will take some time

Why using Lead-Acid Batteries? Use LiFePO Batteries. They have a lot larger engery densenty than Lead-Acid Batteries and are similar safe.

Is it possible to create a bluetooth box almost from scratch?

Nice job man!

great job!! I was thinking of making up something like that. except, I would use a UPS backup instead.

What are your qualifications? Are you an electrical engineer?

I feel like you should try to make a cheaper one

wow Thats awesome, I wish I had your knowledge with wiring and electronics.

Great Video congrats my buddy!

I made one of these for my auto mechanics class I didn't need hardly anything in this video

Make an Electronics Basics video for transistors!!!!1

Genuinely had no idea I wasn't already subscribed. Great video, I'm going to try and upcycle a broken Bluetooth speaker to make an upgraded mains powered Bluetooth speaker.

love this project

YOUR VOICE MAKE ME THINK OF AN INDIAN SMURF

2:09 was so funny....lmao....lol

Great tutorial and the result is dope. What a cool radio! 2 thumps up!

That's looks so sweet .

i made it

2:43 charging controler...

I bought a stripped drift beater, will definitely make one of these to take the place of the back seat lol

Really nice work - thank you

i love comments

i do this project in 2002... 14 years ago.

i loved it scott cheers m8

I have that radio! It’s been in 4 cars 3 broke down the other caught fire due to a recall not getting done. I still use it today! But it’s now my speakers for my computer.

magnets to hold the top closed? come on, you can do better xD

I cannot understand this. it blows my head of what are you saying

An amazing video, really happy how it turned out, i would love tho a bit more explanation on the wiring how and why, but overall very good made!

Cool build

But Can It Run Crysis?

videos great but the stereo n speakers are cheap...i would use premium audio systems

from Argentina. Great job!!!!

Didn't know the trick seen at 6:35. Very smart and a great time-saver

I HAVE THE SAME CHARGER !!!! ALIEXPRESS FOR LIFE!!!! XD btw really nice video i liked it ^° hehe Pflege-öl 4 life xD

this is too complicated i dont know a shit 'bout elctricity itself, ill mess something up

Very Nice Design! I Enjoyed This. Thank You for Posting. :)

bro, your are awesome, nice work

Putting electronic devices in wooden box's is highly dangerous as they can easily catch fire!

"Over priced" HAHAHAHA

These videos are great; thanks!!

thanks for this idea...youre great!!

" DIY " its sooo easy do this everyday ..... not

Bro your projects are too much awesome.. I like your all videos.. Iove your projec😘😍

Kmart had a very cheap Kraco radio on sale. The $14.95 set came packed together with speakers and antenna. I actually used cardboard box for the enclosure for two weeks until I made one from metal.

Nice job! Think I'll try this.