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NoWake posted:This stuff is pretty nice, 3M's Dual Lock. Adhesive behind the strip sticks incredibly solid to glass as well as the dot strip sections of windshields, not sure about molded plastic though. I pop my EZ pass from car to car all the time and it doesn't seem any worse for wear. The barbs are big enough that I doubt they'd clog up too readily.
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NoWake posted:This stuff is pretty nice, 3M's Dual Lock. Adhesive behind the strip sticks incredibly solid to glass as well as the dot strip sections of windshields, not sure about molded plastic though. I pop my EZ pass from car to car all the time and it doesn't seem any worse for wear. The barbs are big enough that I doubt they'd clog up too readily. I'll probably give this a shot just so I can get it mounted. It's not a permanent solution, though.
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I have some 3m double sided tape that has held up for over a year in Texas, outside during work hours. I bet their Velcro equivalent would hold up equally well. I cleaned the glass and applied it when the glass was pretty warm and applied pressure for about 5 minutes.
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Genuine 3M tape can be some serious poo poo. They do some adhesives that are second only to spot welds.
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spog posted:Genuine 3M tape can be some serious poo poo. They do some adhesives that are second only to spot welds. Second only to spot welds you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLCEjeoseQ
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^I know it's a shear test, but that's still insane.spog posted:Genuine 3M tape can be some serious poo poo. They do some adhesives that are second only to spot welds. If this were a permanent installation that's definitely the way I'd have gone at least to start. But this is going to be removed twice a day, five days a week at least.
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Godholio posted:^I know it's a shear test, but that's still insane. Magnetic tape?
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You could epoxy a couple snap buttons to the camera and to your mounting point. Like these things:  Or a strong magnet
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1st clip: My favorite neighborhood 5-stop intersection. Pickup truck juuuust out of the camera's sight line to the right arrives at the same time I do. The two cars there before us take their turn, and since he's to my right he gets the right of way. Car on my left either can't see me, isn't looking, or doesn't give a gently caress. Idiots like these are why I've got a camera. 2nd clip: Pedestrian crossing a 4-lane road does everything in his power to try and get hit. Crosses one lane then stops, straddling the dashed line between. Then crosses into the median and stops at the very edge of it. The way he walks and acts reminds me of a replicant's first attempts at mimicking human behavior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLu4mgu_yXQ
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 no flatbed tow truck, no problem. was stuck behind them for a couple of miles. Every time the truck hit a bump the whole lot started wobbling... steer tires were an estimated 6" off the ground at a couple of points 
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Long Francesco posted:You could epoxy a couple snap buttons to the camera and to your mounting point. That's an interesting idea. My only concern about magnets is that I'd rather my camera not go flying in the event of an accident. I'm not sure how well they would really grip in that situation. I guess the magnetic field doesn't have any impact on the digital recording.
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I'm guessing he somehow wrapped the tire straps around the back of the car? At first I thought he just hooked the end of the arm into the sunroof or something and was really 
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It looks like the rear glass has been smashed and the straps are hooked somewhere in the interior...
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    (tim'g, click for gigantic) I snapped several other photos, but tbqh I was trying to keep a safe distance from that shitshow, as was the fellow in front of me in the white pickup. It did look like the car had been sitting for a while and had been dragged out of the bush. Flat tires on dented wheels, dented roof, busted glass, grass stuck all around. Perhaps a drunken rollover? buttcrackmenace fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Jun 14, 2016 |
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I was really expecting it to just be moving it out of the road...I didn't think for a moment that's how they were hauling it away.
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Kids learning to drift?
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USVI driving on the left will never cease to amaze me.
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nm posted:USVI driving on the left will never cease to amaze me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands#Traffic_control quote:Motor vehicles are driven on the left-hand side of the road in both the British and the U.S. Virgin Islands, although the steering wheels on most cars are located on the left side (as is the norm for drive-on-the-right localities). In the Spanish Virgin Islands vehicles are driven on the right-hand side of the road. I had no idea this was a thing. I was wondering why the third picture posted looked so weird (and dangerous) going around that blind curve.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Kids learning to drift? between the shity roads and high amounts of traffic? lol doubt it. (though there are plenty of kids driving slammed cars... there is nothing funnier than watching a slammed Civic imitate a cockroach as they skitter around avoiding potholes) nm posted:USVI driving on the left will never cease to amaze me. every time I travel to the States I spend at least 15 minutes driving my rental car around at grandpa speeds because my reflexes are all tuned to expect traffic coming from the wrong  side. Then it clicks and I'm fine for the rest of the trip.
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Godholio posted:Ok, so I bought the Aukey DR-H2 and finally had some time to get the wiring set up. Jeep/Chrysler is stupid and doesn't use a normal fuse box anymore, so I had to get a little creative. Anyway, that's all set up. However, I'm still stuck on how to mount this thing. It's going to attach to the plastic trim at the top of the windshield. Here's the complicating factor: I have to be able to easily remove it. It has to be removed before I can get through the gate at work (also in certain areas when I've got the top removed). Velcro and similar fasteners would probably be fine, but wear out pretty quickly and will collect dust which pops free and will go right into the camera when I rip it free, so those are out. My other idea was just a small sheet of lexan/ABS plastic (I've got some scrap that's big enough) to fit between the camera and the trim. Aukey provided some 3M adhesive tape, but I live in a place that spent 2 weeks below 20*F this winter and is already over 100 for probably the next two months...I'm not confident it'll hold up. I could use JB Weld or something to stick the plastic to the camera, then maybe a dual-lock fastener (similar to velcro) on top, but that will still require replacement every few weeks. http://www.proclipusa.com/accessories/locking-move-clips/locking-move-clip-accessories.aspx I spend a rather inordinate amount of time looking around for generic quick-release systems with flat plates for mounting things, and this is the best I could come up with that has a locking feature. I considered a rotary mount but then it might precess out of the locked position depending on how much vibration you'd get, so I stuck to looking for slide locking mounts. There's a ton of generic camera-tripod interface mounts that you could buy but they're all expensive as hell because ~photography~. If you find a cheapie one that you don't mind destroying (you'd have to remove the camera body screw stub) you could adhesive-mount the camera to the plate and adhesive- or screw-mount the base plate to wherever. Good google search terms are "quick release bracket", "quick release plate", "quick release mount", "slide bracket", things like that. I couldn't tell you what you'd want or be willing to work with but that proclip system was the best thing I found that wasn't something camera-related you'd have to modify. Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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I think that's something I can work with. I'll give the 3m stuff a shot since it's arriving today, but if there's too much vibration, or when I have to replace it in a few weeks, I'll probably piece something together from that site. Thanks!
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Biker wrangles a cop and throws him at a chick who didn't yield properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV2JBbol2To Google tells me South Windsor is in Connecticut, is there really such a place where Utopian ideals like 'right of way' and 'zipper merge' are actually followed and enforced? You're probably more sensitive to it being on a motorcycle, if something that this happened in my car I wouldn't even bother pulling the video to upload, much less try to flag down a cop.
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I can only imagine this working for an off duty cop. If I tried that in New Orleans I'd either get no response, "i'm on break", "i didn't see it", or assaulted by the cop.
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I hate this loving place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcNm8PD7W1g
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Hahaha that exasperated sigh, if life were a sitcom you'd be bitching about that guy to George in the diner later on.
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Both of those are loving awesome.
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So looking through this thread, is the Street Guardian the non GoPro better recommendation with the Spy Tec MG380G as the ~$100 recommendation? Looking to get a dash cam, but not the cheapest on the market?
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Takes No Damage posted:Biker wrangles a cop and throws him at a chick who didn't yield properly: I love how she doesn't even move her head in the slightest while he's honking. Either she is blind as a bat, or she is ignoring him for some dumb reason.
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MrOnBicycle posted:I love how she doesn't even move her head in the slightest while he's honking. Either she is blind as a bat, or she is ignoring him for some dumb reason. "If I ignore the problem it's not really there"
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MrOnBicycle posted:I love how she doesn't even move her head in the slightest while he's honking. Either she is blind as a bat, or she is ignoring him for some dumb reason. "He's on a bike, I'm in a car. He's going to lose if I keep coming over."
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Gothmog1065 posted:So looking through this thread, is the Street Guardian the non GoPro better recommendation with the Spy Tec MG380G as the ~$100 recommendation? Looking to get a dash cam, but not the cheapest on the market? I'd say that the Mobius is consistently the most recommended one Howver the DDPai M6+ looks amazing for <$150 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OPrYBWCAYc
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Takes No Damage posted:Biker wrangles a cop and throws him at a chick who didn't yield properly:
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Cugel the Clever posted:Ugh, the comments section... Don't. Just don't. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-youtube-comments/kehdmnjmaakacofbgmjgjapbbibhafoh
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two_beer_bishes posted:I hate this loving place At least he's in a drat near empty road instead of pulling poo poo like that in the middle of the city. I cleared my desk/workbench off Wednesday and found my Cobra 840 dashcam that locked up and quit working 45 minutes after I took it out of the box... which has apparently been plugged into a USB charger this entire time and was merrily recording the back of my computer monitors in a constant loop since last fall. It works again  so maybe I'll have some content for this thread soon, we shall see.
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two_beer_bishes posted:I hate this loving place I've been following this thread for a while, and this is my favorite by far. Your comment makes it for me.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Ugh, the comments section... We're also having a mild poo poo flinging about it in CA if you wanna look at the monkeys fling poo poo at each other.
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Here's something we can all agree on, putting spindly little plastic sticks as the barrier for HOV lanes was perhaps not the greatest idea in hindsight. From my local subreddit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIX7EDOPoY
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Dayum. I think those barriers would have worked as intended if not for previous dummies breaking them and creating breaks in the barrier.
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