Robert Hart
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This rather strange looking contrivance is a custom camera mount for the right side door of a Toyota Echo 2-door hatch. It simply hooks over the window edge and stays put but for added security I have also a hook with threaded shaft which engages the lower edge of the car door to stop the mount from swinging under in heavy braking or accelleration. I have also invented a conforming universal mount but am keeping that to myself for the time being.
The construction of this is fairly simple, requiring a bandsaw, or a jigsaw for the very patient, electric drill, spanner for hex headed coach screws, 18mm or thicker plywood, pine pieces, coach screws, PVA glue, threaded rod, washer, wingnut, sheetmetal folded for a thin hook to be welded onto the bottom of the threaded rod. The contours of the inner and outer car door are first profiled with thin cardboard and scissors, in several pieces if necessary, taped together until the fit is correct then drawn off onto a plywood sheet for cutting.
The screwholes in the ply panels should be drilled first, then used as references for marking the holes into the pine crosspieces. It should be first assembled dry to make sure the fit is correct and the hook ends can be lifted off out of the car window space. Then the coach screws backed off to open gaps for glue inflow, then closed lightly, the frame conformed to the best fit while the glue is slippy, then the screws fastened snug and left for the glue to set firm before removing.
The construction of this is fairly simple, requiring a bandsaw, or a jigsaw for the very patient, electric drill, spanner for hex headed coach screws, 18mm or thicker plywood, pine pieces, coach screws, PVA glue, threaded rod, washer, wingnut, sheetmetal folded for a thin hook to be welded onto the bottom of the threaded rod. The contours of the inner and outer car door are first profiled with thin cardboard and scissors, in several pieces if necessary, taped together until the fit is correct then drawn off onto a plywood sheet for cutting.
The screwholes in the ply panels should be drilled first, then used as references for marking the holes into the pine crosspieces. It should be first assembled dry to make sure the fit is correct and the hook ends can be lifted off out of the car window space. Then the coach screws backed off to open gaps for glue inflow, then closed lightly, the frame conformed to the best fit while the glue is slippy, then the screws fastened snug and left for the glue to set firm before removing.
