Today's Project...

Up until now we've used our laptop as our GPS. We have Co-Pilot software on our laptop.It has a lot of features that are RV specific (propane tunnel avoidance, height restrictions, etc.)that we have liked but when we were in Baton Rouge we bought a Garmin GPS to use. Linda needed the GPS to find nursing home locations in the middle of the night or to find her way home after a long shift in a strange town. This is the laptop holder that I had installed in Bertha...bought it on e-bay. On the trip home from Baton Rouge to Pennsylvania we tested the Garmin against Co-Pilot and couldn't see any noticeable difference in the route. Since the Garmin is much smaller we've decided to use that and I wanted to convert the laptop holder into an arm rest/cup holder since there isn't anyplace for us to rest our right arm while we are driving. I started out by taking the plexi laptop holder off and removed a couple of pieces of the black iron. Went to Lowes and bought 3 floor flanges, a 12" section and 8" section of pipe and created this base. The front floor flange was already screwed into the floor to support the laptop holder. By putting a floor flange on the 12" section of pipe, it fit nicely into one of the cup holders to provide the rear support.

I cut out the arm rest/cup holder (used our favorite cups as templates for the holes),sanded, primed and painted it with enamel.


Then attached it to the flanges with screws...


The view from Boomer's seat in the back....

We're ready to roll....got a place to rest our arm...iced tea and coffee in our mugs...and open highway as far as the eye can see....