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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: kevhenson on January 29, 2006, 18:48:44

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on January 29, 2006, 18:48:44

has anyone mounted a laptop in there disco?
looking for some way of getting it in drivers view... so if anyone has any pics be appreciated

cheers

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: dazzawhipple on January 29, 2006, 19:41:18

I have made my own and should be fitting it soon

I will take some pictures later for you


Darren

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on January 29, 2006, 20:11:26

cheers darren... was it hard and did it involve welding as i cant weld so a bit of a handicap there!!

cheers

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Dave on January 29, 2006, 21:18:03

I made one bit of welding but only tacking together. Some pic's here.
http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/dave/gallery/GPS

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on January 29, 2006, 21:24:53

thats dead neat dave....does it interfere with the passenger much?? got to be able to get my lad in he does the gates  :D

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Dave on January 29, 2006, 21:43:26

No not really its just got a bar that comes up the side of the tunnel but lots of room still. My wife fits :wink:  no problem.  It bolts to the bottom of the seat so can be taken out easy.

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on January 29, 2006, 21:55:57

i like the look of that...will have to try and replace welding with pop rivets or nuts and bolts tho!!

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: fish on January 29, 2006, 22:04:00

Thats a great laptop mount,  you should start mass production and knock them out on ebay, I am sure you would sell loads!

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on January 29, 2006, 22:07:38

Quote from: "fish"

Thats a great laptop mount,  you should start mass production and knock them out on ebay, I am sure you would sell loads!

me for one  :D

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Dave on January 30, 2006, 18:55:39

Get your self an old bed table for the metal and all the adjustable bits. I can take it out and take some pic of it for you to copy if you like. With one of them table its easy.

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: chris9119 on January 30, 2006, 19:30:09

Kev

If you follow my link below you'll find more pictures of the one below.

Chris

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on January 30, 2006, 19:37:37

chris how did you mount it to the dash?

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: defuzz on January 30, 2006, 20:03:38

thats great Dave, looks really good.  What softeware are you runnign with the dual OS view??

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on January 30, 2006, 20:30:07

Quote from: "Dave"

Get your self an old bed table for the metal and all the adjustable bits. I can take it out and take some pic of it for you to copy if you like. With one of them table its easy.

yes please dave if you dont mind

cheers

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Colin 009 on January 30, 2006, 20:41:56

Found this site if it helps http://www.autolaptoplinkinc.com/index.html

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Dave on January 30, 2006, 21:23:31

The software is memory map, its also got a night mode so the screen is not bright at night.
 Kev i will try and get you some pics tomorrow in the daylight.

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: chris9119 on January 30, 2006, 23:26:23

Quote from: "kevhenson"

chris how did you mount it to the dash?

welded on a flat plate and fixed it through the grab rail mounting bolts.

Chris

ps: if you look in the gps section for a simular thread, the "blue Peter" directions are there.

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Ralph Hardwick on January 31, 2006, 16:05:07

Kev
This might be of interest as another route to follow.

I use my laptop with memory map for all our greenlane runs.  At the moment the laptop sits on the passenger seat or on their lap.

I am planning to get one of these in the near future:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/7-TFT-LCD-TOUCH-SCREEN-XGA-VGA-MONITOR-For-Laptop-GPS_W0QQitemZ5860621040QQcategoryZ67772QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and mount it either on the dash top or on the roof console.  Then the laptop will go under the seat (in a padded cradle/drawer).  Because it's touch screen I wont need to access the mouse pad and by using microsoft screen keyboard (which apparently is built into XP) I wont need to access the keyboard either.

When I set off I will simply switch the pc on and plug it into a 12v supply and usb which I will leave 'plumbed-in' under the passenger seat.

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: strapping young lad on January 31, 2006, 16:56:25

ive looked into this project before and found this to be very handy..

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=170466

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Dave on January 31, 2006, 20:21:39

Put some pics of the base in for you kev hope this helps.
http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/dave/gallery/GPS

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on January 31, 2006, 20:26:28

thats great dave... cheers... just keeping my out for one of them over bed tables now


cheers

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Matt_H on January 31, 2006, 22:00:51

RAM make a good laptop mount, it uses a ball and socket system which means it can be moved around to accomodate passengers etc, and a big tray that adapts to any laptop size, the whole thing is about 50 quid and works really well

http://www.ram-mount-uk.com

click on picture gallery, select car mount then there are two sets of disco pics in there as well as another '4x4'

Matthew

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Lee_D on February 01, 2006, 20:27:00

I've done one in a RRC but when I got the Disco it wouldn't fit due to the electric seat motors. Otherwise the seats are the same so would have gone in.

Here it is in the Rangie anyway. I sold it for £10 a couple of months back.

http://www.lrproject.com/rangie1/laptop/

Used scrap bar, a seat knob, speaker mounts choped and weled and velcro to secure the laptop. Never fell off and took some pulling off.

Lee

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on February 01, 2006, 20:36:34

dude...that looks good... how did it fix to the seat?

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Lee_D on February 01, 2006, 20:59:30

It had a bar same as the vertical support which run under the seat. This had a plate at the front with a hole in it which the front seat bolt went through and sandwiched it between the seat and the seat mount / floor. The rear of the tube had a bracket welded in place at the rear of the front seat so that it bolted to the floorpan/seatmount at the back of the rear seat, this would be just in front of the rear passengers feet if you see what I mean.

Only required one hole drilling for the rearmost bolt.

A dammed fine bit of British bodging if I do say so my self  :wink:

Lee

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on February 01, 2006, 21:25:27

one thing im learning on here is there is some very resourceful people!!

very impressed

cheers

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: Littledan on February 01, 2006, 21:42:48

kev,

my dad has a ram mount in his defender 90

http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=11666

go down the page a bit and there is pics there :D

dan

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: dazzawhipple on February 08, 2006, 22:49:01

Heres mine,

I have played around with it still think it could be better

http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/dazzawhipple/gallery/LAPTOPMOUNT

Darren

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: kevhenson on February 11, 2006, 09:43:13

thats looking good daz...take it there isnt anything under the dash yo worry about drilling into?

Title: laptop mount in a 200tdi
Post by: dazzawhipple on February 11, 2006, 15:56:10

I asked that question heres the replies I Had http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=18059

Darren