Ruck

I also took the wireless mic and made a foam piece to go on the mic pickup. I took the foam piece off the mic that came with it and slid mine onto it. It's not 100% but it reduced the feedback now to a point where I can have the volume loud enough for people to hear me.

I took my Aker and put a thin rubber foam all around it except for the front that velcros to the armor. I got the foam from Grainger and it helped reduce the feedback a little more.

I have the Aker MR2800 and I mounted it in my chest and when I turned the sound on so you could hear me talk it would squeal pretty loud. I had to adjust the output to the wireless mic and the volume to the Aker but I still had the feedback at a volume you could hear me. I Took and moved the Aker down to my stomach inside my armor and that helped a little.

This post is part 2 of upgrading my bucket, but is now more focused on the armor part of the upgrade. There is some over lap from the first post so this post can be viewed on it's own.

I just realized this is under my upgrading my bucket post oops!! Well there you go!!! Any way till our next adventure. I hope someone gets some ideas and inspiration from these posts. Thats why I have posted them. If it weren't for others posting there builds I never would have come close to what I have accomplished here. I would like to give all the great people of these boards a shout out!!! thanks fellas and ladies for all your help!!! Ruck

This is the finished box, you can hardly see the hinge from the outside. I did both boxes this way.

The fabric really added the finishing touch, It also hides the hinge and really completes the inside.

​Once everything was dry I took some 3M adhesive spray and some black fabric I had and sprayed the inside of the boxes. I let it get a little tacky then lined the inner and outer boxes with it. It really came out looking great!!

I then took a piece of u shaped plastic and glued that in U shape down ( n ) into the outer drop box. ( Blue arrow ) I took velco and put one side on the inner drop box ( Red arrow ) and one side on the u shaped piece of plastic ( Blue arrow ) to form the closer.

I used two small jewelry box hinges set side by side along the bottom of the outside drop box ( marked with the blue arrow ), they fit perfectly. I got them from a local fabric store. They are pretty strong too!!

On the inner box I ground down the bottom to make room for the hinge in the green circle.

And ended up with this.

So I started with this!!