havesomejoe
Joe Petrakovich
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2019
- Messages
- 38
I'd like to make some kind of wind fairing to prevent as much wind as I can from going under the panels and pushing up.
I don't want to have to drill anything, since that was the whole point of using VHB with this aluminum mounting rack setup.
There are plenty of decent tutorials showing some ways to do it on youtube, but they don't quite fit my application so I'm wondering if others on here could share any creative ideas they have come up with or can think of now. I also don't really have a workshop so ideally it can be created with minimal tools.
See attached photos for my situation.
I plan to use a piece of ABS plastic that I cut into the rather odd shape at the front of my van roof, but I'm not sure about how to mount it.
There is no more room for a front cross bar, so I can't use the loop style fairing brackets. However, I could mount something brackets onto the underside of the front-most solar panel. Do they make pre-angled brackets or something that could allow me to angle the fairing plastic properly?
My other thought was to VHB-tape a large aluminum door hinge onto that hump, and then just rest the top of the fairing onto the side of the panels and tie it down somehow so it doesn't move.
I don't want to have to drill anything, since that was the whole point of using VHB with this aluminum mounting rack setup.
There are plenty of decent tutorials showing some ways to do it on youtube, but they don't quite fit my application so I'm wondering if others on here could share any creative ideas they have come up with or can think of now. I also don't really have a workshop so ideally it can be created with minimal tools.
See attached photos for my situation.
I plan to use a piece of ABS plastic that I cut into the rather odd shape at the front of my van roof, but I'm not sure about how to mount it.
There is no more room for a front cross bar, so I can't use the loop style fairing brackets. However, I could mount something brackets onto the underside of the front-most solar panel. Do they make pre-angled brackets or something that could allow me to angle the fairing plastic properly?
My other thought was to VHB-tape a large aluminum door hinge onto that hump, and then just rest the top of the fairing onto the side of the panels and tie it down somehow so it doesn't move.