This would probably work on other gun with a reel that mounts in same fashion. The gun shown is a Cayman 90.
1. Make a template out of paper. The Material for the bracket here is 0.6mm INOX sheet. This can be trimmed with good tin snips. Use the paper or card template though, saves much frustration although it may seem fiddly at first.
2. You will want to replace the plastic roll-pin from the rear of the gun with a decent bolt. It not only secures GoPro to gun, but also reel to gun far better than the standard plastic pin!!! (YES, that pin is all that holds the reel base on the gun..). Buy a stainless hex bolt, M5 with a smooth section 30mm long, or longer as I did, and tap the threads more to length. This is impossible unless you have a M5 die lying around, sorry. The idea here is the nut tightens and locks, bottoming out on the non-threaded part, before pinching the tube. You could of course use washers. The nut is a M5 stainless nylock. Note that the line release side of the gun is where either the nut, or head of bolt must go. I opted to put the head there, after reshaping it to a round low profile. This is to avoid the line snagging there after release.
3. The bracket is bent in a vice between two nice square bits of hardwood, then marked and drilled. Drilling stainless is a PITA so use a center pop and nice sharp (new) 2mm HSS drill bits to start off the holes.
4. The GoPro sticky bases (very very sticky BTW) are placed on a lightly sanded area on the base, a pop-rivet stops loss if the glue decides not to be sticky one day. The pop rivet can ONLY go there, you can't use two.
5. Job done! The gopro mount shown comes with the standard Helmet kit. Some screws need trimming to match. If you trim the vertical screw nearest to the gun the correct amount it with act as a stop to flip the camera up to after loading, keeping the camera pointing the right way.
On first use it was very good, and I was very surprised to find that once in hunting mode, seeing fish, I would completely not see the camera. A one track mind helps here.
I did shallow dives due to the bad viz, up to about 14m, and noticed very little drag. I would not like to be encumbered with the cam over 20M though, although I'm sure the metal issue would be more than any real hydrodynamics.
BTW: on loading the camera is flipped to the side.
RESULTS, try in HD:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-fJnmmZEw"]YouTube - Rollizo Mala Viz[/ame]
Can anyone tell me why my video's are so pixelated during the water filming bits? I mean, it was filmed in HD etc, must be my editing. All done with Cyberlink Power director using HQ settings and direct upload to Youtube. Where am i going wrong?
1. Make a template out of paper. The Material for the bracket here is 0.6mm INOX sheet. This can be trimmed with good tin snips. Use the paper or card template though, saves much frustration although it may seem fiddly at first.
2. You will want to replace the plastic roll-pin from the rear of the gun with a decent bolt. It not only secures GoPro to gun, but also reel to gun far better than the standard plastic pin!!! (YES, that pin is all that holds the reel base on the gun..). Buy a stainless hex bolt, M5 with a smooth section 30mm long, or longer as I did, and tap the threads more to length. This is impossible unless you have a M5 die lying around, sorry. The idea here is the nut tightens and locks, bottoming out on the non-threaded part, before pinching the tube. You could of course use washers. The nut is a M5 stainless nylock. Note that the line release side of the gun is where either the nut, or head of bolt must go. I opted to put the head there, after reshaping it to a round low profile. This is to avoid the line snagging there after release.
3. The bracket is bent in a vice between two nice square bits of hardwood, then marked and drilled. Drilling stainless is a PITA so use a center pop and nice sharp (new) 2mm HSS drill bits to start off the holes.
4. The GoPro sticky bases (very very sticky BTW) are placed on a lightly sanded area on the base, a pop-rivet stops loss if the glue decides not to be sticky one day. The pop rivet can ONLY go there, you can't use two.
5. Job done! The gopro mount shown comes with the standard Helmet kit. Some screws need trimming to match. If you trim the vertical screw nearest to the gun the correct amount it with act as a stop to flip the camera up to after loading, keeping the camera pointing the right way.
On first use it was very good, and I was very surprised to find that once in hunting mode, seeing fish, I would completely not see the camera. A one track mind helps here.
I did shallow dives due to the bad viz, up to about 14m, and noticed very little drag. I would not like to be encumbered with the cam over 20M though, although I'm sure the metal issue would be more than any real hydrodynamics.
BTW: on loading the camera is flipped to the side.
RESULTS, try in HD:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-fJnmmZEw"]YouTube - Rollizo Mala Viz[/ame]
Can anyone tell me why my video's are so pixelated during the water filming bits? I mean, it was filmed in HD etc, must be my editing. All done with Cyberlink Power director using HQ settings and direct upload to Youtube. Where am i going wrong?
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