I bought several RING outdoor security-cameras to install around the outside of the house.
To protect the cameras against sun & rain, I intend to build a sun & rain shade for the
cameras. This is my first prototype built with cardboard. Join me in this video as
I take this rain box-gutter, & make a sun & rain-shade out of it. Some of you might
like this idea, & make your own. So this is the rain box-gutter. It is 2 metres long
by 150 millimetres tall, & 150 millimetres wide. This is the cardboard sun-shade I made.
So what I've done is I've put white painters-tape. I've laid this over, in order to
get the outline, & mark it. And then I extended the rear by 20 millimetres
so that I can cut & bend this in. And those will be the lip which I screw into the brick wall - for
instance. Same thing on top, & same thing the other side. So now we have to cut this. This is
painted black on one side - has a plastic-film. And then inside is gray color. I don't want to use an
angle-grinder to cut it because the sparks will damage the rest of the paint. So I'm just going to
use tin-snips, & work the tin-snips around slowly. Now, they're straight-cut tin-snips. There's
red & green tin-snips for left or right cuts. I'm just going for a straight-cut.
1 more side done. Now to cut this end.
Admittedly, an angle-grinder is much easier.
I think this last bit, I'm going to use the angle-grinder because it's a way too difficult to use
the tin-snips. Okay, I've got my safety-gear on. Angle-grinder. I'm going to cut this out.
That's it. The rest I can file down smoothly. This is the cut piece.
I will now file the edges smooth. Now, I
just need to file down the edges. They're obviously rough & sharp.
Yes, that's good enough. Now I need to cut this 20 millimetre so that I can bend it in as a lip. I marked 20
millimetre in. I'm going to cut these corners. And for this I can just use the tin-snip.
So 1 cut.
Next cut here.
And I'm going to cut them so there's a 45 degree angle,
so that I can fold them inwards.
That's the 45 degree angles.
Smoothen the edges again.
What I'm going to do next is I've marked out 20 millimetre off the edge - on both sides. I'm going
to cut these so that they have an angle on the corners.
File the corners a bit.
All right, so that's what it looks like.
Next, I will drill 2 holes on each of lips so that when I fold them, & mount them to a surface, I can
screw them in with little screws like that. I have a drill with a 2.5 millimetre diameter drill-bit.
Because the surface is very smooth, I'll dot-punch the holes first, so that the drill-bit does not run.
I've dot-punched 1 hole here. I'll dot-punch another hole here. That's what it looks like.
All right, let's see if we can drill them.
That's 1 down. I can't get the hole from the other side, so I'll punch this side.
Yes, 2 holes. 1, 2.
The holes are too small. I've changed the drill-bit to size 3.5 millimetre diameter. I will re-drill them.
Test the screws. Yes, they go in much better. That's good. Now I just need
to file down the drilled surface so that it's flat.
All right, that's the holes drilled - 2 on each lip. Now, I'll bend the lip inwards. I'll use this.
CRESCENT WISS 24-inch folding-tool. This one here is going to be a problem. But it should be okay for
these. So this folding-tool has 2 sides. On 1 side, it is about 10 millimetre deep. The other
side is about 26 millimetre deep. I'm going to use the longer side to fold. So you see, I've marked out
where the fold-lines are. So put the lip in there - to the edge. The line to the edge, & then fold.
I just want to get this close, so you can see it.
There you go. That's 1 fold. So we'll fold this second lip.
Get the line to the top of the edge. Hold it tight, & then fold. There you go. That's folded.
So the 2 lips are folded inwards. This last one might be a bit difficult, but we'll give it a try.
There you go.
I can't bend it anymore because these are in the way.
So I'll just use pliers, & bend them the rest of the way down.
There you go. For this purpose, it's good enough.
It's going to be high up on a wall. So no one's going to get close up to have a look. There you go.
It's still got the protective-film over it, which I've left on to preserve it
from scratches. So I have the sun-shade here. Let me
install this demonstrator so you can see how it looks. So the base of the shade
is aligned roughly to the bottom of the camera. I have 6 holes to drill.
Make it easier if I take the camera out first.
That's it. All 6 screws in. Now we can just slip the camera in to see what it looks like.
That's what it looks like. Looks good. You can see there's a fair bit of tilt the way I've got it.
I will show you what the image looks like - with the shades on.
Before I actually install this sun-shade on the house, I'll give it a coat of spray-paint.
Well, I hope you found this video helpful, & give you some ideas how you can make
something yourself to protect your own CCTV camera. Do hit the like-button, &
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