My Custom DIY Dashboard Rail Mount

Decided to create my own BYOD rail... its made with a $13 aluminum Picatinny Rail from Amazon, some scrap aluminum angle, and a dollar or so worth of screws.

Basically, I cut the bulk of it out with a hacksaw and used several files to clean up the details. I plan on painting the top where the rail sits black, and the lettering the same color as the dash (so it's a little more subtle).

All in all, it was a fun little project. The material cost was low, but I spent several hours with file in hand.

All I can say is wow. Nice work. With a hand saw and file you are an artist.

That's art!

That's some commitment right there. Nice job!

Very nice!

Wow, just wow. That is some meticulous, and super creative work there. I barely have the patience to detail my rig, let alone something this intense. Well done.

I know I won't be the only one, but I will be the first one on here to tell you, that you should sell those. Really cool OP. nice work.

That looks great!

Very nice indeed. I'll take one, only about a 1 week lead time, right? Nice job!

Layman said:

I know I won't be the only one, but I will be the first one on here to tell you, that you should sell those. Really cool OP. nice work.

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I bet if I had a computerized milling machine I could knock one out in 5 min, this one took me the better part of 5 hours start to finish.

REALLY nicely done! I would buy one!

That is insane man!!!! I cut a little notch out of aluminum angle stock before and marveled at my sort of straight cut…..but this….this is next level stuff!! that is seriously well done.

Bmadda said:

REALLY nicely done! I would buy one!

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same. You program a milling machine to do it and start selling them, PM me. I’ll take one

MFP2241 said:

I bet if I had a computerized milling machine I could knock one out in 5 min, this one took me the better part of 5 hours start to finish.

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PM me, I have a solution.