Overhead Monitor in H3

[Humvdood]

howdy,

As I've said in other posts I own a shop here in fort worth.
I have a double din dvd player that will source out to other monitors.
I was going to do the headrest monitors but I get overhead monitors for dirt cheap.
If anyone's done an overhead monitor in your H3, how did you mount it?
Just wondering... I don't want to weld anything cause I'll burn through the paint on the roof and throw sparks all over the inside of my ride.
Don't really want to glue a piece of plywood to the roof cause this is texas, its a black car, and it gets super hot and I'm afraid it'll fail.
I'm thinking about using the three OS handles on the roof as mounting points and hammer/dollying some long, thin strips to form to my roof and mounting the monitor brackets to those...

 

[chad]

i'm curious about this too for when i add a back up camera with dedicated monitor

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

nutserts to the cross braces

 

[Humvdood]

nutserts to the cross braces

Yeah once I pulled the headliner down it was easier than I had anticipated.
i did a 14" monitor.
i used 2 - 12" sections of 1x4 and a sheet of ABS plastic.
see the pics

 

[Humvdood]

They're all upside down and I can't fix it from my iPhone so use you're visualization skills

 

[chad]

thanks, that gives me some more ideas

 

[Humvdood]

Just a note - those cross rails are the same depth as those cheap green T-posts. I had originally planned on using two sections of T-posts painted black but I was doing this by myself and couldn't get the sections positioned squarely. The wood will rattle less and the sheet of ABS works as like a big gasket and smoothed the edges out so you don't see any lumps in the headliner.

You could probably center a mount on the main cross rail but I wanted it scooted back some to make sure it wasn't in my peripheral vision while driving. This monitor was $60 on Amazon - way cheaper than the $1000 headrest monitor.