Blulu Aluminum Angle: Making My Roof-Camera Brackets
I cut and drilled aluminum-angle stock into small custom connections for the roof equipment. The finished brackets hide the repeated measuring, drilling and hardware adjustments needed to make them fit.
The camera work continued beyond the first connection between profiles. I enlarged holes, added an attachment at the camera’s front mounting point and prepared more bracket pieces as the remaining mounts took shape.
I also brought the drill press into the project as the drilling accumulated. My notes about buying shorter bolts came from the same fitting work: changing the hardware length would reduce the repeated bolt shortening.
A custom aluminum-angle connection between the extrusion pieces in my mount.
Making the Small Brackets Around the Roof Equipment
I cut and drilled short aluminum mounts for the light-bar extrusion.
I continued making angle-bracket pieces for the camera assemblies.
I adjusted holes and fitted the pieces around the extrusion and hardware.
Short connecting brackets between the light-bar extrusion and the roof-rack extrusion.
My Takeaway for Choosing the Kit
I would compare the stock profile and the lengths needed for the planned blanks. Blulu supplies short angle sections; Randall and M-D supply longer lengths that can be divided into pieces. The number of cuts, bracket shape and hole positions remain part of the job after choosing the stock.
Product Details And Van-Build Uses
Specification
Product Detail
Stock Shape
Right-angle aluminum section
Fabrication
Cutting and drilling
Build Context
Roof-camera bracket work
My camera-bracket work used cut and drilled angle pieces to join the extrusion and device mounts. Lay out the holes on both faces of the stock before cutting short pieces, including their orientation at the finished joint. Keeping the angle dimensions with the sketch helps preserve the relationship between the two faces. The selected stock is the starting material, while the diary photographs record the separate work of fitting the individual brackets on the van.
The holes on the two faces belong to the same finished bracket and need a consistent orientation.
Alternative products
Two Alternatives to Compare
Randall Manufacturing supplies a longer angle length with one-inch legs and an eighth-inch wall. The M-D option has a narrower equal-leg profile in a long length. Stock profile and the number of bracket blanks obtainable from a length are useful differences to compare with the short Blulu pieces.
Product
Why compare this option
Purchase link
Blulu Aluminum Angle Stock
Short right-angle aluminum sections for custom bracket blanks.
This equal-leg aluminum angle provides right-angled stock for custom fabrication. Its long, narrow profile offers another blank for cutting and drilling small brackets.
