How Do You Make A Morton Salt Ipod Nano Speaker Dock?
The Morton Salt Company introduced the round blue box with the little girl and the umbrella in 1914. “When it rains, it pours,” appeared that year in a series of ads in Good Housekeeping Magazine. Since then the round blue box has become synonymous with table salt. You can convert the iconic container into a whimsical speaker dock for your iPod. Remove the salt from the Morton container. Invert the container and give it a few good shakes to loosen any crystals clinging to the bottom. Remove the label from the salt box in one piece. Set it aside. Use a sharp knife and cut through the glue that holds the top of the container in place. Set the container aside. Cut the wire on a pair of headphones leaving only the audio plug (jack) and about 12 inches of wire. Strip the wire. Solder the green to the speaker’s negative contact. Solder the red and gold wire to the positive contact. Drill a 1.5 mm hole into the right side of the dock adapter where the iPod sits. Fit the audio plug into this h
