Outbacknomad
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- Joined
- Apr 7, 2021
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- Location
- Sydney
- Country
- Australia
- Dash Cam
- 4 x Garmin 56 plus 100Ah auxiliary battery
I wanted my Garmin 56 up behind the mirror. As small as the mounting bracket is, the camera was just a bit too much in the way of the mirror if I swing the mirror to its full extent no matter where I positioned the camera.
So I cut the Garmin bracket down so it is about 9mm shorter. I made two locating pins to fit two of the four segments with small pieces of aluminium and a file, you will clearly see this when you cut the bracket.
It's not difficult, just a bit if elbow grease, about 30 minutes to cut and make two small guiding/location pins/guides, whatever you like to call them.
Glued it together with 24 Araldite. 5 minute Araldite will not give you long enough setting time due to fiddling around and filling the internal space.
Sanded the joint with some 1200 wet and dry. Not perfect for the first prototype but good enough! All up with pre sanding to get each half reasonably square, about one hour of work. But about a week to think out this solution. But more importantly 24 hours patience to let the glue set!
The mirror still touches the camera at full extent but it won't knock it off. I never actually have the mirror swung to the side this much, but it is good to have a bit more clearance so the camera will not be swinging from its cable.
So I cut the Garmin bracket down so it is about 9mm shorter. I made two locating pins to fit two of the four segments with small pieces of aluminium and a file, you will clearly see this when you cut the bracket.
It's not difficult, just a bit if elbow grease, about 30 minutes to cut and make two small guiding/location pins/guides, whatever you like to call them.
Glued it together with 24 Araldite. 5 minute Araldite will not give you long enough setting time due to fiddling around and filling the internal space.
Sanded the joint with some 1200 wet and dry. Not perfect for the first prototype but good enough! All up with pre sanding to get each half reasonably square, about one hour of work. But about a week to think out this solution. But more importantly 24 hours patience to let the glue set!
The mirror still touches the camera at full extent but it won't knock it off. I never actually have the mirror swung to the side this much, but it is good to have a bit more clearance so the camera will not be swinging from its cable.