Stage 5 – Some Assembly Required

After I finished all the sanding, painting, sanding, painting, sanding, …you get the idea, I brought all the pieces inside to make sure they start to dry really well.

I then started putting things back together to make sure it was all working out. I tackled the assembly of the Speaker panel and had to make a few adjustments there.

It turned out pretty good. It was mainly the knob, and also I wanted the whole thing to be able to come off the cab, for servicing and access.

I also taped up the inside where the marquee would be, with some metallic tape. Kinda weird stuff, it’s like a foil, and bonds to itself super easy. But it’s pretty useful, as it’s reflective and will increase the light output for the marquee (top portion) art.

I also added an outlet/socket. I was a bit nervous about this part, as I’m not used to dealing with voltage coming out of a house outlet. Luckily my brother-in-law was in town on a visit. Just so happens he got his degree in electrical engineering too.

So I broke out the socket and asked him about it. In no time at all, he had cut off the plug on the surge protector and rewired it into the socket. He even tested it, while I nervously held my breath, haha!

That socket will be on the outside of the cab, and allow me to plug a cable into it to power it. Which leads directly to a surge protector that the computer, monitor, speakers, and lights will be powered with. In later pictures, you might end up seeing what I’m talking about. It will be at the bottom right of the back of the cabinet.

Lastly, those are a couple pictures of the cabinet sub-assembled.

I’ve mainly been busy with getting some art together for the project. I hope to share some of that process next time, as I think it might be more interesting to most of the followers of this blog.