Nigel Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Hi All! NOTE: I just realized, this maybe should have gone in to Miscellaneous Tech... Sorry! Now that I have a little more time on my hands, I thought I'd share with you the mount that I came up with for my SDS programmer. For some time, I had been tossing around several ideas in my head on how I could mount the thing but nothing I could think of really appealed to me. My criteria were that the programmer had to be easily removable (to hide it when I was away from the car), and it had to be adjustable for best viewing. So, like I said, I pondered several ideas for a couple of years with no ideal solution coming to mind until one day when I had an epiphany! I happened to recall that there are articulated ball-heads for camera mounts. I figured that that would be perfect to give me the adjustability I desired. I did a search on line and came up with a miniature ball-head that had a magnetic mount for the camera! Well, that would cover my other criteria that the programmer be easily removable. But unfortunately, this ball-head was $50US, which would work out to $100CDN by the time I got it. But the magnet idea was perfect, and I had seen some rare earth magnets in various sizes in the Lee Valley catalogue... http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/page.aspx?c=2&p=32065&cat=3,42363,42348&ap=1 http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/page.aspx?c=2&p=32066&cat=3,42363,42348&ap=1 So, I was sure I could make something myself. I continued my search for ball-heads, and found one for $15US. Perfect! Here's the link: http://www.clamperpod.com/miniballhead.html Below is a series of pictures. I made the bracket out of aluminum on the mill at work. I taught myself how to use it, and this is the first thing I made. The black circles are adhesive-backed anti-scratch pads that go over the magnets. Because the bracket is aluminum, steel cups are counterbored into the aluminum that the magnets then go in.. The bracket then screws onto the end of the ball head arm. The ball head is mounted to an aluminum plate that I used to replace the map light bezel when it broke. You can’t see it, but there's an adjustment knob on the head that you loosen to swivel the ball arm around. Nigel '73 240ZT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spork Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 I like it, now I need to make one for my LM1 instead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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