Mr. G. Brettin's Slow Motion Leg Hump

gbrettin · 12-29-2021, 10:30 AM

I'll start off with saying this. Jason Gale did amazing work! BUT, I found a little something on my Tinker Electronics display mount that I'd like a little different. The legs on the mount pushed into the plastic vents making a slight bulge. Now, I could have just buzzed off some of the extra material to settle everything down but I have OEM mounts available to me... and a crazy idea. What's new, right?

The crazy idea is to hack off the legs and adapt the oem legs onto Jason's mount. That's a lot of work for OEM mount points. You would be correct. It also introduces the possibility of errors. Caution to the wind, I've decided to make a Forged Carbon Fiber cubby mount. To do that, I need to make a cast mold of the mount, so I figured having OEM mounts would be worth the risk.

Getting started, I had to hack off the mounts from the cubby. I had originally tried to keep the whole cubby ring around but that didn't really work out for testing fitment. The legs were cut off separate. The plastic legs were sanded with my 35grit air sander so that I could lay in the cubby mold to the plastic and epoxy it.

I decided to do the drivers side to start with. The mold was eyeballed and taped into position while the other side was screwed down. My thought on this was to align the unit center because Jason had that part figured out. My only issue is a slight depth issue on the new mount near the bottom. The good news is that I didn't go full hog with the epoxy so I have some adjustment available to me.

Here's where I'm at so far.

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12-29-2021, 10:30 AM	#11 (permalink)
gbrettin A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Portage, MI Posts: 2,296 Drives: Tricycle Rep Power: 589151	I'll start off with saying this. Jason Gale did amazing work! BUT, I found a little something on my Tinker Electronics display mount that I'd like a little different. The legs on the mount pushed into the plastic vents making a slight bulge. Now, I could have just buzzed off some of the extra material to settle everything down but I have OEM mounts available to me... and a crazy idea. What's new, right? The crazy idea is to hack off the legs and adapt the oem legs onto Jason's mount. That's a lot of work for OEM mount points. You would be correct. It also introduces the possibility of errors. Caution to the wind, I've decided to make a Forged Carbon Fiber cubby mount. To do that, I need to make a cast mold of the mount, so I figured having OEM mounts would be worth the risk. Getting started, I had to hack off the mounts from the cubby. I had originally tried to keep the whole cubby ring around but that didn't really work out for testing fitment. The legs were cut off separate. The plastic legs were sanded with my 35grit air sander so that I could lay in the cubby mold to the plastic and epoxy it. I decided to do the drivers side to start with. The mold was eyeballed and taped into position while the other side was screwed down. My thought on this was to align the unit center because Jason had that part figured out. My only issue is a slight depth issue on the new mount near the bottom. The good news is that I didn't go full hog with the epoxy so I have some adjustment available to me. Here's where I'm at so far.