Portable DVD mount

OKJeep · **Posted:** Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:36 am

Someone asked so here it is.

Disclaimer: This is not a highly engineered piece of equipment. I had this idea on my way home from work the day before we left for Colorado and this is what I came up with. I have a portable hanging/mounting bag system thingy with no less than 28 straps that wrap around everything to secure the player, then when my daughter puts her foot on it the thing flips upside down. This one will not do that, and it attaches and dettaches in a couple of minutes. No, I wouldn't use it off road or on a race track, but it works great for traveling.
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I bought a piece of 22ga sheet metal from HomeDepot. I traced a box a little larger than the player (mine is a 9"!), then cut the excess material off and notched the corners with the a cutt-off wheel on the RotoZip (I love this thing).

I then took some 1/4" bar stock as a straight edge and a rubber mallet and beat the sides down to form the box. I also smothed all the edges and corners with the RotoZip (I love this thing).

I had a piece of 1x2 RedOak laying around and it was longer than the distance between the inner legs of the headrests, I didn't measure because it fit and I didn't feel like cutting it down. I mic'd the headrest posts then found a drill bit that looked like it would work, it did. I had some silver and black spraypaint and painted both pieces. Just before we left that morning, I found some bolts and nylocks that looked like they would work and mounted the box to the cross piece and everthing worked perfectly, to my amazement. The Liberty did smell like spraypaint for a little bit.

When she (our daughter) wasn't watching a movie, I'd take the box off and she would use the cross piece for a foot rest.

It's very basic but did the job well.

Guest · **Posted:** Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:02 pm

Looks good...
Does it block the view at all

I wonder if it couldn't hang under the board somehow so it wouldn't block
the rearview?

Good idea and quick and cheap to...

Mike

OKJeep · **Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:12 am

Depends what you're looking for! I can't see my daughter, but I can still see out the back. It's a great height for her to see and any flying feet only tough the cross bar or metal box.

Cacher123 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:20 am

It's a great idea but those edges on that box look awful sharp!
I did a similar mount for my laptop but instead of putting it in a box I got a piece of 1/4" smoked plexiglass the size of the laptop base and put two strips of velcro full width on it. Reverse pieces on the bottom of the laptop and zippo! on and off in like 3 seconds. I'd just be leery of the metal box. Cool engineering on the fly though!

OKJeep · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:10 am

Plexi was actually my first thought, but I bought the metal just in case. When I got home, the plexi I had was too thin and all the velcro I had added up to about 2".
The metal is not that sharp and all the corners or cut edges have been smoothed.

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