ammo can console

here it is 12 bucks and 2 hours of sanding painting mounting balencing and beer drinking later and i got a home made console that don't look bad. I don't know what size ammo the can holds but my buddy who just got back from iraq told me they did thid in their hummers (the real ones not the face lift suburbans) now i just need to lock it. next up ammo can speaker boxes.

 

Probably 20mm. I'd like to know how much each one of those cans costs us taxpayers, and they just throw 'em away.

 

that's probably on the bottom of my "goverment spending concern" list

 

If you want to take it one step further, here's an idea for you.

 

did you put a lock on yours ? i'm digging the cup holders

 

Very cool guys.

 

Yeh you can find the 9MM ones just floating around on the ocean, like this pic proves

Found it last summer while out in my kayak. Opened it up and it was still dry inside. I plan on using it in Chia.

 

I'd be afraid to open that one up -- maybe find a dead cat, or worse.

 

This is a great idea, BTW! Didn't somebody post some photos a few days ago about 3 or 4 ammo cans he'd mounted under his hood? I need to find that post....I don't think I saved those photos.

OK, found it. It was Slaghammer...http://www.earlycj5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36448&highlight=ammo+can

 

Someone say speakers??? Here are mine. Old Jerry cans work good as well with 10 inchers in the side and tweeters in the filler hole.
http://www.earlycj5.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=14392&d=1161236261

To lock a box like this make the hole in the latch wider to fit a small muffler clamp or threaded eye bolt. Bolt the clamp or eye bolt to the box then flip the latch over it to hid the nut/s. Place a pad lock through the clamp and it secures the latch.
Ed

 

I shook it before I opened it just to make sure R) Nope it was totally dry inside, a testement to how waterproof those things are since it was floating upside down for at least a month according to the marine biologist I saw right after I found it.

 

These are all some great ideas. It's an awfully big console just to keep an ink pen in, but a great idea nonetheless.

 

if i had to take a guess at teh ammo can size from the first post i would say 40 mm grenades for a mk19mod3, thats what i used for mine and it fit just right between the seats. mine is in the first post of the link and a friend posted some pics further down of the one he did also with a 40mm cah and some pics of his .50cal cans for the rear wheelwells

http://www.marylandjeepclub.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3400&highlight=console

 

Anyone locally need any cans? Let me know. I am quite busy right now, but take a break or two to keep the insanity by checking on here. I will "scrounge" some up. It could be a couple weeks so be patient. We just spent over 30,000 .50cal rounds on our last gunnery.

 

I don't need any cans, but if you ever need a passenger for a ride-along to the range you just let me know!!!

 

i'm gunna put an amp in there, run some wires to some speakers and run a wire to my ipod. no stereo to steal or build a drain plug and make it a nice cooler

 

I had thought about a cooler. It would be cool.

 

I've been known to fill up both fiberglass saddlebags on my Harley with ice and beer....on more than one occaision. Works good but melts quick.

 

I'm interested but I suppose shipping to Reading,Pa would be costly