That looks amazing! I do have one minor (and easily fixable) nitpick, though... The holes on the side of the junction box were originally designed to hold a pair of (optional) thick wire baskets to prevent to speakers from falling to the ground... There are holes in the bottom of the junction box base for the speaker wires. You may also consider tying a simple knot in the speaker wires, inside of the junction box, and the speaker housing for strain relief
Ok....this comment is going to describe my last 15 minutes. Decided to take a long soak in the tub..got a little bored and I decided to look up old drive ins that still use old speakers but couldn't find any. Then I see speaker conversion to blue tooth. You tube'd it and as my grandkids would say watch this video Grandma its strangely satisfying. I was so intrigued...from getting the screws out, to buffing all the dull metal to a glorious shine to the paint job, the snapping of the wire cutters, to the EVERY STINKIN DETAIL. What a GREAT VIDEO....LOVE LOVE LOVE the sounds without the silly music or the senseless rambling of a person talking. The best, most strangely satisfying video I have ever watched and trust me I've watched thousands. Now I gotta get out of this tub!!! P.S I would LOVE ONE OF THESE. Do you do this for people or just for video?
Putting some rubber grommets in the holes where the wires come out of the speakers would keep the wires from moving around possibly cutting them and they would have gave it a cleaner look, great job though, nice to see you moving into other areas with your restoration skill.
@@joe_diy love your work, I was probably the first to ask you to move into other restoration projects, I know toys are your thing but you do them so well it's hard not to ask for more restorations on antiquities, basically old stuff being brought back to life by someone who has the skill to do it.
I don't know if you did, but before I sealed the component bodies, I would tie the cords into a knot, put a bead of hot glue at the inside of the cord holes, or a rubber/silicone grommet of some kind, so that the cords wouldn't get pulled out after assembly.
Otra gran muestra de su habilidad en la rstauracion y transformacion, excelente resultado obtenido con esta restauración de altavoz de película Vintage Drive-In y conversión a Bluetooth , mis respetos y saludos desde Venezuela. Joe DIY🤜🤛Venezuela👊💯💯👍
Hi I am doing the same resto that you did......how did you wire up the DC end of the USB cable? Once you mount the Bluetooth receiver board there is no room with the other end plugged in. I see you have wires out so I assume you cut the end buy how and where on the receiver board did you mount it? Thanks and love your work.
While restoration is amazing, I didn't liked that you've placed Bluetooth module in base, so you had to drill a hole. Wasn't there enough place in speaker enclosure, to fit it there? Therefore you could use already existing potentiometer hole. Despite this, great job.
If your running a power lead to the blue tooth device ....... Then why not run a speaker lead from a blue tooth party speaker to the original speakers ? Then you don't need to drill original equipment ....
