Looking for a quick release bracket

[Kelemvor]

No idea where to look so maybe someone here can help me search for something...

I have some speakers that I sometimes use on a speaker stand. When I do that, I have to attach a bracket to the bottom that fits over the speaker stand tube.

The bracket looks something like this:

I don't want to have to keep screwing and unscrewing the bracket so I want to attach the bracket to some sort of quick release plate that I can attach the other side of to the speaker so I can just click on the bracket when I need it and click it off when I don't.

Hopefully that makes sense...

Anyone know anything I can buy that would allow me to do this?

I figure I could make something out of wood like this where the red part would attack to the speaker and the blue part could attach to the bracket:

Just looking for other ideas.

Thanks.

 

[Fritzo]

heheheh....he said "quick release"

 

[lxskllr]

Not a bad idea, but I think wood would chip and break easily, especially if used in a professional capacity. I'd use your idea, but make it out of aluminum.

 

[Sea Moose]

http://www.ram-mount.com.au/

 

[Leros]

How about some sort of bracket where you slide the bracket over a screwhead.

 

[kevbot]

Your idea looks exactly like the quick mount for professional video camera tripod mounts. The part with the triangular slot is more or less permanently mounted to the tripod, and the camera has the mating piece screwed to the camera. Slide it in, and it locks. Move a lever, and slide it back out.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search...289936037&pn=1 has some stuff similar to what I am thinking.

Good luck whatever you do.

 

[alfa147x]

Get a tripod? Just something like this:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/247938-REG/Sunpak_620_020_2001UT_Tripod.html

 

[Kelemvor]

I don't know if a tiny camera mount will support a 20lb speaker. I think I might need something a little more heavy duty. Also when the speaker is not on the stand, it needs to be able to sit on a shelf so the part that attaches to the speaker has to be of decent size or I'd have to build something around it so it doesn't tip over.

I guess maybe a camera mount for a professional video camera but don't know how much those cost...

 

[alfa147x]

I don't know if a tiny camera mount will support a 20lb speaker. I think I might need something a little more heavy duty. Also when the speaker is not on the stand, it needs to be able to sit on a shelf so the part that attaches to the speaker has to be of decent size or I'd have to build something around it so it doesn't tip over.

I guess maybe a camera mount for a professional video camera but don't know how much those cost...

Didnt know it was 20 pounds I was thinking surround speakers like these:

But yeah tripods are not for you, they won't do 20 pounds... cheaply

 

[Kelemvor]

These are JBL G300 speakers. Probably 2 feet tall, 1 foot square, etc.

 

[kevbot]

I don't know if a tiny camera mount will support a 20lb speaker. I think I might need something a little more heavy duty. Also when the speaker is not on the stand, it needs to be able to sit on a shelf so the part that attaches to the speaker has to be of decent size or I'd have to build something around it so it doesn't tip over.

I guess maybe a camera mount for a professional video camera but don't know how much those cost...

What I am thinking of is what they used 20 or 25 years ago. A three tube camera with a CRT based teleprompter weighed a freaking ton! Somebody somewhere is selling this stuff, and cheap.

What I don't know is if this type of thing wouldn't just be trading one problem for another.

These things looked just like your picture, but were definitely heavy duty. A wood solution will probably not be long lived. I wish I was better at the goggles, but the system I am thinking of would probably hold your car up.

Also, if you are mounting the speakers in the exact same place time and time again, look into some kind of captive nut solution in the floor, so you can just bolt them down quickly every time.

Sorry if this isn't coherent, it's beddy-bye time.

Again, good luck.