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Well ahead of you bro!! just waiting on my latex hand guards and some ABS for the belt everything else is ready to go!!

Thats all we have time for today. Stay tuned for the exciting latest breaking news here…………… On The Ruck Show!!

Once I fit them all in I needed to make some adjustments. I needed to add a foam piece to the forehead. Again I used velcro to attach everything, I cut some foam from my Granger foam and velcroed it to the padding and I attached velcro to that to attach to the lid.

They all fit in the bucket perfect!! one on top, one in back and one on each side. I did trim the bottom of the back one to accommodate the rubber hose. At the same time I took hose that I got from the Home Depot carefully measured it and cut it to length of course I cut it long just in case but I had plenty to work with enough for two or three buckets so it wasn't a big deal lol. I then cut it in half the long way.

I ordered my padding from Arakyel on these boards. I saw some pics of what it looked like and knew I wanted it. It took quite awhile but I finally got it and it was worth the wait!! The padding came in four big pieces, here are three.

Ooops!!! I just realized I forgot a step; the padding!! Ok better late than never.

I cut the foam inside the lid to accommodate the two boxes. Then I cut some foam from the Granger foam and glued it to the boxes then cut it to conform to the curve of the bucket, I also trimmed it down a little cause the fit was a little too snug. I attached velcro to the foam on the boxes then attached it to the bucket. It fit perfect!!

At this point I needed to fit the boxes into the lid to get the right placement and to see where the wires are going to come out at. Plus I had to see if my head would fit inside the bucket with the boxes inside. From the advice of some wise men I used velcro to attach all my padding so I can move it around as i need to. this also is important because it hides the wires very well and holds them in position.

Here are the two boards and boxes, you can see the 9v hook ups with the green circles,. The orange squares are the Dupont wires I soldered into the mic points on the board where I desoldered the Mics from to put into the ears.

As you can see I didn't need the 9v hook up from the board. These boxes came with + and - wires and an on off switch.

The next step was to cut the 9v battery hook up and extend the wires or make them longer by adding the dupont wires. I bought 9v battery boxes on ebay for like $5 so I didn't need the hook up the board came with.

Ok back to the build. In the pic of the sound board box you might have noticed a piece of foam, I ordered the foam from Granger and cut it to the right thickness and size for the boxes. The foam served two purposes one two hold the board from moving around and two to insulate it, like sound proofing.

Hey Fella's, thought you might like to see these pics, a fellow brother took these for me

Thanks Jim for all your help!! How are the pics? I think I'm getting the hang of this. Thanks Steve

It's past my bed time, more to follow

The next thing I did was to make boxes for the sound boards, I didn't want the boards to be unprotected. I looked for weeks trying to find the right size boxes. I finally found what I was looking for. I found these plastic boxes at a local fabric store, lets just say I now have an unlimited amount of push pins lol. I had to cut off the hanging tabs then dermeled them flat. I took some black spay paint made for plastic then painted the inside of the boxes, that way the outside will be high gloss and won't scrape off. I took my wood burning tool and used a bigger tip to melt two holes in the boxes one for the volume control which was a round hole and one for the on/off switch which was a elongated hole.

Once the paint dried I centered the mics over the slits in the ear, then hot glued them in making sure not to get any glue on the - and + leads.

I had to desolder the mics from the board, sorry no pics. Once I desoldered the mics I painted the edges black cause the mics are silver and I didn't want to be able to see them through the slits.

The slits blended very well with the black, I haven't tackled the white so that will be my next build. Once I was satisfied with the slits I moved on to the mics

After I melted the slits in the ears I took my exacto knife and very very carefully cut, well more like scraped the excess plastic off. I wanted the slit to be hidden and be as straight as I could get it.

Thank you fellas I'll give it a try

I don't know how to use photo bucket to put the photos on here so while I'm trying to figure it out there will be a short intermission. Please enjoy the music while your party is being reached.