Fire extinguisher speaker mod looks great, sounds tinny?
Homemade gear just got hotter
Usually, and as the name suggests, fire extinguishers are used to extinguish fire. These modded speakers, however, are more likely to start one: a raging inferno of ownership envy. If only we could buy one…
These are homemade speakers crafted from empty fire extinguisher canisters. An extremely talented DIYer posted a photo step-by-step guide of how he built these bad boys, which is handy because the rest of the instructions are in Russian.
In a nutshell, he goes from this…
To this...
And to this...
And then to this...
Amazing.
With the thick metal shell, it's hard to tell how they'd sound - tinny perhaps? Actually, who cares? We'd take a set on looks alone...
(TopMods via: BoingBoing)
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