[vcf-midatlantic] Ideas needed: attaching our tablets to shelf poles

[Ian Primus]

I think you're overthinking this. These are cheap, effectively
disposable tablets. Why not just glue something to them? Take an
electrical junction box cover. Use a dremel tool to cut four slots in
it, spaced so you can thread two worm clamp type hose clamps through
them. Bend the centers of the pairs of slots up a bit to give a space
so the strap of the hose clamp fits and the rest of the plate sits
flat against the tablet. Thread the hose clamps through. Epoxy the
junction box cover to the back of the tablet. Now you have a tablet
with a pair of worm clamps attached to it, that you can loop around
and tighten on to the pole.

You can use all manner of adhesives to attach such a homemade mounting
plate to the back of the tablet - epoxy, construction adhesive, double
sided tape, etc. Just think of those anti-theft plates that you find
glued to old computers to allow cable locks to be installed. Those
stay stuck. You're just creating one of those with hose clamps
threaded through it, so you can mount it to a pole.

Maybe not the most elegant, but they'd cost less than five bucks
apiece to make, and nobody would ever see them because they'd be
behind the tablets.

-Ian

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> Sooo.... there are all kind of good ways to attach solid pieces to the
> poles, but we still need something specific for the tablets themselves.
>
> The outside of these tablets is 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4.
>
> If we could find (or if someone can make/machine/3-D print) rectangular
> cases that have a cut-out in front for the screens (7" x 4.5", starting
> 13/16ths from the top edge of the device)....