determined the size and did all the calculations for all the wiring stuff some of you guys were wondering why am i using what appears to be two different fuse blocks but the actual truth is these are two distribution blocks that are flexible because we can use fuses in one of them for our positive lead and then we can use these guys here these are called ground links we can use these on our ground side of the distribution i've already done my research during the fabrication phase of the amp rack itself where i determined where all these amps were going to be mounted that i want these mounted in this exact location right here so i'm going to use a series of different tools i'm going to use a center punch to mark the center of each of these mounting holes i'm going to use a transfer punch to make that hole extra deep so that i can start a drill bit in it the drill bit i'll be using is from this drill and tap set that's because i'm going to tap each of these holes which will allow me to use mechanical fasteners like this the advantage of doing it like this is rather than using something like a wood screw that as soon as you take it out the first time it degrades the quality of that hold with a machine screw we can take this in and out several times it's not going to hurt the quality of that thread in fact if you guys watch the mounting of the amplifiers and the dsp all of these are a machine screw as well i'll have a link for all of these different specialized tools for you guys down in the video description so i've got the distribution blocks mounted now i want to turn my attention to mounting this fuse block right here but my friends we've run into an issue the problem here and you can see i've got some of these rca wires ran the reason for that is i want to start to get a feel for where all my wiring is going to be and i know i'm also going to have to run power wiring from the distribution blocks over to these amplifiers as well there's going to be a lot of different wiring running through here and the problem with having this right here even though that's really the only spot left to mount it it's kind of in the way but then i got an idea i remembered that in my scrap bin i had these guys right here these are some little threaded couplers that i can use as standoffs so what i did is i marked out my mounting holes like i normally would for mounting this but instead i drilled through holes and i used a little fasteners from the back side to secure each of these in place and they're still threaded all the way up to the top so now i can mount this like so but i can also have wiring running underneath as need be so i'm going to move this out of the way for now because we're going to start connecting all of our wiring to the amplifier rack and to do this i'm going to be using the d wire ruler from the guys over at NUMBER_TOKEN star and mobile solutions they collaborated on this cool tool what this allows me to do is quickly drill holes that i can use for zip ties in order to secure all the wiring to the amp rack before i can start drilling holes though i do need to think about the path that each of these wires is going to take so
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