Outdoor Speaker

26 Apr.,2023

 

1) Now that the liquid nails is beginning to cure, you will want to take your spool of speaker wire and connect it to the leads on your speaker. To do this, take a pair of scissors and make a 3 inch cut down the strip of rubber casing in between the two wires on the speaker wire, then procede to strip away about half of an inch of each wire. Go ahead and connect the wire to your speaker. Now run your speaker wire down to the bottom of the flower pot, taping it to the flower pot with some duct tape. This will be the point where your wire will exit your tiki.

2) Keep in mind that, now matter how short or long you think your speaker wire will need to be, do not cut it to length. Instead, leave all of your wire on the spool that it came on, and tuck it way/work around it for the remainder of the time you are building your tiki. I found this to be very useful when I was putting my tiki in place and hooking it up to a receiver.

3) Now it's time to make the frame a little more rigid. This is where you will want to get out your roll of chicken wire. Wrap the chicken wire once around your entire structure and crimp it together and secure it by twisting floral wire around the loops where the two ends meet. This will take a little wrestling, and in my case, another person to help. This part is a bit tricky since the bottom of the tiki flares out, and the chicken wire doesn't seem to like to make odd bends like that too easily.

4) After you have wrapped your tiki in the first coat of chicken wire, take your insulating foam and wrap the entire tiki in it, and secure it with a little bit of duct tape Be sure to not wrap the tiki where the speaker is pointing. This foam serves two purposes:
-Sound insulation: If you have ever seen an artificial concrete rock and knocked on it with your knuckles, chances are it sounded hollow. That is because most artificial rocks are simply tight chicken wire and rebar coated in concrete. The foam will eliminate a large deal of the hollowness when the tiki is finished.
-Shape: When I wrapped my tiki in the foam, i wrapped it on top of itself a little bit more towards the top, creating an hourglass shape that can be seen in the main picture for this instructable.

5) When your foam is secure, Cut a rectangular hole in the chicken wire and foam to expose the front of the speaker

6) Next, a top needs to be made for the tiki. The first thing you need to do is cut out a circle of chicken wire and wire it to the top edge of the main body, then tape some flexible foam to the top of it. Take your plastic sheeting and measure out enough material to cover the top of your tiki. Once you have your plastic measured, cut it out with your dremel tool. Glue it on top with your Liquid Nails.

The reason why I made the frame out of a foam flower pot and buckets is because I wanted to be able to move the tiki once it was completed, and making it out of rebar like most concrete structures would simply make it too heavy. Keep in mind that your tiki will weigh a lot once the concrete has cured. Mine weighs in at a whopping 110 pounds. So for every step after this, I would suggest moving the tiki on top of a rolling platform or wagon of some sort to easily move it into place after it is finished. I put mine on a wagon and a sheet of plywood, covered with a plastic trash bag.

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