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Mounting to steel I-Beam?

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Anyone have any solution to mounting cameras to vertical I-Beams?

Can't drill into them so I would need something to clamp to it and that I can mount camera to....

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Thanks....im not clear on that though....this would be a vertical I beam...

what would you do use 2 of those clamps to clamp camera flange to beam?

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Use two of them and you use two 1/4-20 screws to mount the cameras to the beam clamps.

 

Would you have any pictures of that?

What are the clamps made of....you drill straight into the clamp....? I know you know what you're you're doing, but im just trying to picture that..the clamp looks kind of small for that

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Thinking about this:

 

Do you mean remove the screw and put a 1/4-20 screw through one hole in the camera mount , through the clamp to the beam?

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Thinking about this:

 

Do you mean remove the screw and put a 1/4-20 screw through one hole in the camera mount , through the clamp to the beam?

 

No the screw that is in it holds the clamp to the beam. There are 2 other 1/4-20 holes in the beam clamp which you would use to mount the camera too with screws.

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but if that makes it a proper job then thats what id go for imho.

 

correct, but why wouldn't the other beam clamps do the proper job?

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Don't expect the first beam clamps to hold against twisting weight or force. Electricians will typically use two of them, mounted on each side of an I beam with a piece of unistrut between the two. This keeps the clamps in position. They then mount equipment to the unistrut.

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Ordinarily, advice would be to avoid mounting steel camera bracket direct to steel structural component. You could be ok, but could also develop a lot of problems.

 

Rather mount a nonconducting base to the steel and mount the camera to that.

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