We developed the non-drill mount specifically for company drivers who cannot modify the truck. It uses 3M "aircraft tape" designed to hold things on the outside of airplanes. The KEY to it is that it is HEAT activated. Per the included instructions you must clean the area with something to remove any grease, dirt, or grime with a solvent like methanol or some other cleaner that doesn't leave a residue. Measure beforehand so you know exactly where you are going to place it and then stick it on. Now take a small torch or a heat gun and heat the plate so that it is just beyond a temperature where you can touch it with your hand (say 120 - 130 degrees.) Now push against the plate. Repeat this 3 times. Finally put a bead of silicone or RTV around the edges of the bracket so that high pressure water from the truck wash can't be sprayed under. At this point the bracket is extremely well-attached. I have hung off them and I weight 220 pounds and the Qube weighs 17.
To take it off, REPEAT the heating process and it will "unbond" and come off. There will be some adhesive residue left that comes off with any solvent (again like methanol or isopropyl alcohol) without leaving and blemishes. It can then be reused on another rig as long as you let us know to fire you off anther set of fresh tape.
On a V10 there is only the coax cable to your receiver in the sleeper. On a V20 or V30 there is the coax and a 12V wire that needs to be tapped into any of the many 12 volt wires in the cab or sleeper (like the back of a lighter socket.) My favorite way to run these is down the back of truck and up under into the sleeper where the QualComm wire runs in. If you don't have a QualComm, don't worry because all modern rigs have plug up underneath the sleeper where you can run wire in. If you own your truck you could drill a 1/2 hole up by the Qube and run directly in that way too, but most just use the method of going under. Take another look at the pics of the trucks I posted earlier and you will see the wire running down this way.
There is no way that they can just "pull" that bracket off. However a very motivated thief could use a ladder and unbolt it from the bracket with some tools, but it would take them some time and visibility of course.
Yes. We have made a bracket that clamps on to either of your mirror brackets that can be easily popped off and on at will.
Hope that clears it up a bit. Good questions!
- Don
Sat TV in my truck
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by ElCamino, Jul 9, 2009.
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Dude! They rake you over on that thing. It's $300 for the season broken down into 5 monthly payments of $59.95. Also, only DirectTV has it so they can charge what they want.
"Miss Dieselboss" is a Vikings fanatic so in order to get them every Sunday here in the West, we "have" to get the package. If I don't... well...
bad things happen.
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hmmm... a vikings fan, did you no that vikings fans wont come to my city anymore to see a game, i mean some still show up, but hardly anymore the way they used too, i mean, i no the eagles dont do all that well with McBaby still the q-back, but im a die hard eagles fan,
, and i hated, absolutly hated missing the games on tv last year, i think 60 a month aint so bad, i mean, i need to " have " it or, or bad things will happen to me too....
and plus, with this new crap that call digital sucks ### everytime a truck/bird/plane/person/leaf/dust/shadow/fly/bee/dragonfly/owl/dove/pigon/deer/elk/moose/elephent/tigar/bears,oh my/ go by the truck... the blue screen gets old, the skipping shows that look like a skpipping dvd is just annoying anymore
and its only been like this for a month now, thank your mr govt, you suck even more now
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