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I'll be making a few more next month.

Erik, Are you using the lever on the side of the mount? It is 'unlocked' when the lever is loose, and you swing it over to lock it in place. On the side with the handle, there's a notch in the rubber skirt that should line up with the left plastic piece that juts up from the top section. Unlock the suction cup, place it firmly against any reasonably flat and non-porous surface (eg glass, metal), and swing the arm over to lock. As everyone who has witnessed this will agree, there is not a snowflake in heck of it falling off by itself.

OK Erik, just for you, my dodgy sketch again! You can use it at the front of the car, on the front windscreen, or at the back with the rear windscreen. You use the mini tripod if you need to raise the camera off whatever surface is underneath. For best results, put some tension into the system so that the camera mount is really snug, being pressed down by the windscreen and pushed up by whatever's underneath it - all tightened up so that the camera isn't jumping around. Hope that helps. Perhaps if people take some photos with the camera mount set up in their cars?

You connect anything that can record an A/V source, so a video camera with external inputs works nicely.

Hehehe, I've certainly asked enough of your patiences, so I'll wait.

Everyone who's paid, you either already have your mounts, or they are in the post. If anyone else wants one, let me know.

Well, Duncan and Majanal have theirs... sidewaymambo was going to drop by for his but hasn't yet... OK, time to send out emails to everyone, especially to get mailing addresses.

4th June? No worries.

Hey, Ric Shaw is on Parramatta Road, right? Let me know what day and you can pick yours up.

eriktufa, email me your mailing address, so that as soon as I have tripods, I can put your gear in a box and mail it off. You can send me the shipping costs afterwards.

Right now dude, right now! I've got a single mini tripod that I can swap with you in order to get my own tripod back. I'm in North Strathfield, next to Homebush, send me an email or ring me (0415 346 379) if you want to drop by and pick yours up.

Wouldn't you know it, Fletchers in the city was out of the mini tripods. But, if anyone wants to get their mounts sans tripod as soon as tomorrow evening, let me know! You'd have to swing by my place to pick them up, and I'd give you back $5 for the tripod if you ordered one.

funkymonkey, Yes, similar, I think the setup in the first pic is 2.4GHz. I have the receiver in the second pic. I haven't trialled it inside of a car yet, so I don't know about interference. I need to borrow a video camera that can record from an external source.

Hey guys... Can you give me until next week? The camera mount stuff is all over the living room floor, and they're not far from completion, but I'm really snowed under by uni work at the moment.

Just letting people know, assembly of the camera mounts has begun. That's not as simple as it sounds, though, there's a fair amount of manual labour required... and I've got a pinch wound on my thumb to prove it! Anyway, every mount is done by me personally, by hand, so no two mounts are exactly the same! The people who put in their deposits or payments first will of course get theirs first. For the people who said they definitely wanted one, but have not paid or put in a deposit, now would be a good time. Otherwise, I might be tempted not to offer the mounts at the group buy price anymore...