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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: fogman on June 15, 2004, 08:45:59 am
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How is everyone mounting their Act-Labs gun? You can't disconnect the gun from the video box. Has anyone opened the gun and clipped the wire?
I would like to mount the gun on the side of the cab, but I don't want to make a hole big enough for the gun or the vid box. Any suggestiosn???
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When I built my cab, the Act-Labs guns were still in pre-order status. I assumed that a 1.5" diameter hole would be sufficient to run the cable through. You obviously know my frustration when I saw the size of the gun and the vid box.
After thinking about it for a bit, I took an old DB-9 cable (male-female) and cut it in half. I cut the cable between the lightgun and the vid box and soldered the two halves of the serial cable to either end. Now I can detach the gun from the box and run one end through the small hole in the side of my cab. It also extended the length of the cable by a few feet, which is nice.