Awhile back, I bought a bracketron, inc. iPhone holder from Best Buy. It’s quite an awesome iPhone holder, as it swivels horizontal or vertical, has cushy foam for a tight squeeze, and a few other nice features. However, it had 1 flaw. It attached to the vent of your car. Perhaps my Jeep Liberty just has weak vents, but I think it more has to do with that the weight of the holder, the phone, and my mophie juice pack is just too much for any vent.
So, I had 2 options to consider. The first one would be to abandon the vent mount and drop $30 on a windshield mount. The second option was to make a few trips to Home Depot, and for less than $5, retrofit the vent holder onto a new custom mount.
I chose option 2, and the results are damn awesome if I do say so myself. In front of my passenger seat is this large handle that served no really good purpose, until now.
The custom mount is made using PVC Pipe, a 45 degree angle bracket, a t-brakcet, and a 90 degree angle bracket. Both the t-bracket and 90 degree angle bracket are threaded on the ends facing the passanger so that I can add male adapters to hold the thing up. Un-screw the adapters and the arm falls through, and can be removed.
The old bracketron swivel assembely was modified a little bit using a drill as a dremel tool so that I could attach it to the PVC Pipe with a u-bolt.
It works like a charm, and now all that’s left to do is paint it. I’ll post again when it’s 100% complete.
I’d like to point out, I was a little inspired, by this post on modmyi.com/instructables
