Make a Morton Salt iPod Nano Speaker Dock

The Morton Salt Business launched the spherical blue box with the small woman and the umbrella in 1914. "When it rains, it pours," appeared that yr in a sequence of advertisements in Great Housekeeping Magazine. Because then the spherical blue box has turn into synonymous with table salt. You can convert the iconic container into a whimsical speaker dock for your ipod.

Items You may Need to have

ipod Nano, 2nd era ipod dock adapter Mini-speaker Spherical Morton salt container Ear buds or headphones Sizzling glue gun Electrical drill and #six bit Scissors Craft knife Soldering iron Cardboard or poster board Wire strippers

Take away the salt from the Morton container. Invert the container and give it a number of Great shakes to loosen any crystals clinging to the bottom.

Get rid of the label from the salt box in one piece. Set it aside. Use a sharp knife and minimize by way of the glue that retains the top rated of the container in area. Set the container aside.

Lower the wire on a pair of headphones leaving only the audio plug (jack) and above twelve inches of wire. Strip the wire. Solder the green to the speaker's detrimental speak to. Solder the red and gold wire to the good make contact with.

Drill a 1.5 mm hole into the appropriate side of the dock adapter wherever the ipod sits. Suit the audio plug into this hole so that the ipod connects to it when inserted into the dock.

Pull up the spout on the salt box. Minimize a circle of cardboard or poster board to In shape inside of the best of the container to reinforce it. Use a craft knife to reduce a rectangle in the top rated of the container that is more than 1/sixteen inch scaled-down than the dock adapter.

Set the wired speaker going through up into the bottom of the container. Glue it in spot to the bottom of the container. Pull the audio plug in by means of the leading of the container. Exchange the top rated of the container and glue it in area.

Suit the audio plug in and glue it in location. Glue the dock adapter about the rectangular opening. Drill a range of holes all around the dock and the spout to permit seems out. Glue the label back again on the carton.