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MINIAC · Aug 6th, 2002, 02:25 AM

Just completed the install of a Fischer Universal C-Box in the cubby hole under the toggle switch row:

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Model # 21172 as shown on Vehicle-Controls website
Mounted underneath radio-a/c-toggle stack
CD dispensed by pushing a button

Getting the C-Box to fit in the cubby hole was quite a challenge due to the slanted under-cowling and location of the cigarette lighter. A mounting bracket had to be modeled, first from cardboard and then from aluminum flashing. Quotes of $45 - $55 from two metal shops to fabricate a steel bracket from the model, sent me off to Home Depot in search of a cheaper solution. A few days later, after utilizing high school metal shop skills in assembling roughly $3 worth of frame angles [2], tie plates [3], sheet metal shingles [1] and machine bolts plus nuts [8], the mounting bracket was ready for installation:

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Side view of bracket showing ~25 degree angle required to parallel slant of under-cowling and clear cigarette lighter
Top view of bracket with locking base for C-Box attached
Mounting bracket fitted in cubby hole ... feet of bracket slide under back of cup-holder / cigarette lighter surround
C-Box fitted on locking base
Back of C-Box butts up against base of under-cowling ... holding storage unit (and mounting bracket) firmly in place
Just push a button and out pops a CD ... Sticky Fingers no less

Aug 6th, 2002, 02:25 AM	#1
MINIAC MINI Profiler Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: City By The Bay Local Time: 04:05 PM Posts: 8,665 Offline	Fischer C-Box - a solution for CD storage Just completed the install of a Fischer Universal C-Box in the cubby hole under the toggle switch row: ---------------- 1 ---------------------------- 2 --------------------------- 3 --------------- Model # 21172 as shown on Vehicle-Controls website Mounted underneath radio-a/c-toggle stack CD dispensed by pushing a button Getting the C-Box to fit in the cubby hole was quite a challenge due to the slanted under-cowling and location of the cigarette lighter. A mounting bracket had to be modeled, first from cardboard and then from aluminum flashing. Quotes of $45 - $55 from two metal shops to fabricate a steel bracket from the model, sent me off to Home Depot in search of a cheaper solution. A few days later, after utilizing high school metal shop skills in assembling roughly $3 worth of frame angles [2], tie plates [3], sheet metal shingles [1] and machine bolts plus nuts [8], the mounting bracket was ready for installation: ---------------- 1 ---------------------------- 2 --------------------------- 3 --------------- ---------------- 4 ---------------------------- 5 --------------------------- 6 --------------- Side view of bracket showing ~25 degree angle required to parallel slant of under-cowling and clear cigarette lighter Top view of bracket with locking base for C-Box attached Mounting bracket fitted in cubby hole ... feet of bracket slide under back of cup-holder / cigarette lighter surround C-Box fitted on locking base Back of C-Box butts up against base of under-cowling ... holding storage unit (and mounting bracket) firmly in place Just push a button and out pops a CD ... Sticky Fingers no less Last edited by MINIAC : Jan 16th, 2008 at 10:39 PM.