GPS Bracket for Jeep Wrangler

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Kchula-Rrit
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GPS Bracket for Jeep Wrangler

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Here is a bracket to mount my GPS in my car, a Jeep Wrangler. The car came with a little holder for (presumably) a mobile phone or Apple-Pod on top of the dashboard. The bracket plugs in to the hole where the phone/Pod holder was. The unit is assembled with #4 x 3/4 inch flat head sheet metal screws.
Here's my FreeCAD info:
Computer is a Raspberry Pi 8GB
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) (LXDE/LXDE-pi)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.9.2
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.1
Locale: English/United States (en_US)

The GPS slides over the flange at the front.
GPS Bracket Upper View.jpg
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GPS Bracket Lower View.jpg
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Here's a photo of the assembled part:
Bracket.jpg
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This is the "Mark I" prototype in blue, to better show the assembly:
Mark-I.jpg
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Here is the GPS mounted to the dashboard:
GPS In Car.jpg
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I'd have shown a close-up but the Web-site only lets me attach five files.

K-R.
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Re: GPS Bracket for Jeep Wrangler

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Can you provide the file ?
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Re: GPS Bracket for Jeep Wrangler

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Here are the files. There are six of them, so I collected them in a zip-file. The Web-site only let me attach five files.

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Re: GPS Bracket for Jeep Wrangler

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:idea:
sketch upon face : TNP

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Re: GPS Bracket for Jeep Wrangler

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I assume there is something wrong with the "GPS Base" file, but I do not know what it might be. Here is another copy of the file, outside of the zip file..

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Re: GPS Bracket for Jeep Wrangler

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My file is just for ideas (dimensions are not perfectly correct).
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