Smoky

Hi folks

I'm not new here, but I've never posted. I've been lurking on mp3car for a looong time. I've probably built a carputer 3 or 4 times on paper for different cars I've owned. But I've never pulled the trigger.

I have however employed things I've learned here into my home racing simulator cockpit building (see attached pic) and into other various car projects not carputer related.

This yields my questions...I'm currently flat mounting a Xenarc 7" into a panel for my simulator's dashboard. The panel is 1/8" thick. I realized the other day that the screws in the Xenarc are not long enough to go through the back cover, the panel, and into the screen panel with enough bite (only two threads make it through).

Where can I buy these screws in different lengths?

Or do you guys just leave off the back cover when you panel mount these screens in your cars?

Or maybe some of you are retapping the holes in the screen panel and using different screws altogether?

Please advise. This is literally the last step in my dashboard build (see attached pic). So I'm hoping someone here has encountered this problem and knows where to source the parts or has a better solution.

Thanks in advance!

-Smoky

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