Re: Outdoor camera connections.

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert Macy" <robert.a.macy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mar 20, 8:13 pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:12:14 PM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
>> > "Jim" <alarminex> wrote in message news:01b7c2a9-3104-44e0-9947-
>>
>>  Tough problem. Not going to be easy but if you can chisel and/or grind
>> off a flat spot on your rough surface large enough for your 4x4 box to
>> sit flat on top of your penetration hole in the wall. Plastic box can be
>> painted to best match the wall color but you need to use the right paint.
>> Be sure to caulk well around the box against the box. Good luck. Les
>>
>> Thanks Les,
>> I've been thinking about it and today I thought about buying some
>> duct-seal and putting it on the back of a piece of Azek or PVC decking
>> and just screwing it to the wall. The weather wouldn't affect the board
>> and the duct-seal would steady the board and would "space it" too.
>> Duct-seal wouldn't dry out and it would keep the board steady. I thought
>> about epoxy on the back of the board also but I'd be concerned about
>> controling the epoxy so it didn't run down the building before it dried.
>> I'm thinking that there's all kinds of "caulking" stuff out there too.
>> I'll have to take a look next time I'm at Home Depot. Maybe just simple
>> construction cement would work too.
>>
>> Any other suggestions are welcome.
>
> If the brick wall is that nice, don't do anything that permanently
> mars it, except for the feed hole. Instead take a mold of the surface
> with that conformal foam, like they use in packing. That stuff is like
> a squishy pad. You would make it flat on the outside mounting surface
> and a 'perfect' fit on the inside towards the wall. If you want, you
> could make it rigid using expandable fill-foam, cut to shape, then use
> a thin sealant between the two. Then there's the fibre glass epoxy
> method, too. That's used in boats so would be water proof and last a
> while.

I see somebody has started to think outside the box a little bit for camera
mounting.