Finished Cooler Radio

Finished Cooler Radio Video Clips. Duration : 4.58 Mins.

Seen plenty of radios on the Guadalupe River....I finally decided our group needed one too! With help from my wife, we built the radio. We just broke it in this past weekend. It was a hit! We calculated that it would last about 6-7 hours, but with the horn going every 5 minutes it lasted about 5-6 hours. No OVERHEATING! Check out pictures of how we made it: www.flickr.com Thanks for looking! Update: 01/24/2011 Things I would change? 1. I would not make the oval cut outs again! It was way too difficult...not worth the I saved. This guy on ebay makes and sells standard 6x9 oval cut outs that are made by a CNC machine. 2. Do not paint the cooler. No matter what paint, no matter what paint adhesive...no matter how much you roughen the surface...the paint just does not want to stick.. It is very easy to just scratch it off..I would suggest just putting vinyl stickers to personalize it...The bed liner on the bottom worked well thou. 3. I originally wanted to paint the top white...but I didn't think it would be so labor intensive to sand the body filler...I would not waste my time again trying to sand it smooth...I didn't find out about body filler "glazes" and/or these rough fills to rough sand the body filler till after I gave up. I was sanding big bumps of filler forever when I just could have used the file. 4. Do not take the original wheels off. You will find that it is difficult to attach a new axel and wheels to it. Plus with those wheels I put on it didn't fit inside ...