Custom V1 visor bracket

I'm a bit bored (off work today, unsuccessful trip to the junkyard and what I'm expecting in the mail hasn't come so nothing to do) so I figured I'd start a thread now for this

I got a sheet of 22ga sheetmetal at home depot today and cut a strip off that's just the width of the clip on the visor mount that comes with the V1. The plan is to make a hole in one end for the clip in the visor mount, drop my headliner, bend it up just right, paint it black, and use some very short self tapping screws to install it.

The strip didn't turn out quite as good as I wanted because I used snips, but I have no access to a metal shop and I don't feel like paying someone to do it. The edge is pretty good after sanding but it's still ever so slightly, well I guess lumpy is the right word. It will barely show though, and I'm hoping to get some black vinyl to put above my mirror leaving just enough room to not block the V1 from laser (meanwhile raising it up just a little more to decrease the chance that my rear view mirror support will get in the way also).

So far it's just a 12" ruler with no markings so not really worth posting pics...

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Originally Posted by orangekid13

So far it's just a 12" ruler with no markings so not really worth posting pics...

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But you're going to eventually, right? Might I recommend that you go ahead and get pics of it throughout the process? A lot of people post pics of products when they're done, but that's not particularly helpful in showing us how you did it so others might replicate the process.

I am in fact taking pics along the way, there's just not really anything to see

I did get my drill battery charged up so I have the bar in the visor bracket now but I don't have time today to pull my headliner down to bend it up. My sister is coming to visit so I'll be spending a bunch of time with her so my next opportunity to work on it might not be until the 6th, but I do have a bunch of evening shifts coming up so it might be a couple days before, but not until at least the 3rd

pulled out my camera to take a couple pics of parts I'm selling off on another forum and got a couple of the start of my bracket and managed to get them all off my camera just before the battery died (now it's charging haha)

I have since cleaned up the hole a bit, took me a while to find the small sanding drums for my dremel...

A lot of smaller hardware stores sell aluminun flat bar in various widths and thicknesses. That 22 gauge stuff looks a little too flimsy to me. But some 1" wide 1/8" thick aluminum flat bar might do the trick nicely. If you don't have an easy way to precisely bend flat bar, mark where the bend line should be, stick it at the bottom of a house window and close the window, and presto! You have a vice for bending the flat bar.

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Originally Posted by MEM-TEK

A lot of smaller hardware stores sell aluminun flat bar in various widths and thicknesses. That 22 gauge stuff looks a little too flimsy to me. But some 1" wide 1/8" thick aluminum flat bar might do the trick nicely.

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The 22ga is probably about the thickest that would fit in the bracket. I plan on doing my best to make it stiff by having it push the rubber edge of the V1 up to the windshield and I'm also going to see about putting a slight crease through the bend perpendicular to the width of the bend to make it less likely to wobble.

As long as the bar is right now it's pretty flexible but if I hold it within about 3" of the bracket it's fairly sturdy, and I don't intend on any section of it being that long except maybe some extra length on the section that I screw it in through.

Staring at the second picture nearly invoked nausea. Something about that background and the perspective of the long piece of metal.

haha sorry. that's like the one piece of floor around here that's not cluttered so I used it. I'll use a wall as the backdrop next time :P

I face the same problem everytime I have to take a picture of something. It's either the floor or the kitchen counter top, and of course neither of them are clean at the time I have to take the picture.

I did something like you want to do earlier in the month. I pulled off the clip to my visor and used it as an anchor point as opposed to drilling holes and using screws though. The mount will be a lot more stable if you use some sort of velcro to secure it to the headliner or the windshield though, without it mine would be bouncing all over the place.

Check it out.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...1-install.html

-Ryan