The trick to any adhesive guys is the surface of the material your'e trying to stick it to must be clean of any & all residue. I carry a box of alcohol prep pads in the truck. Scrub the window & wipe completely dry. The stickum will stick then. My experience is many, many years of glass mount cellular antennas. They take a lot more extremes than a little weightless ir emitter on the front of a piece of a/v gear. The silicone will also work.

Actually, I prefer Bubbalicious (Raspberry Lemonade).

With regard to internally mounting the emitter, I keep thinking about that, but I'm nervous about cracking open a non-customer owned piece of equipment (cable box). Also, once you place the mouse inside the box, do I have to worry about placement, or are we just flooding the inside of the box with IR, and placement becomes irrelevant?

Thanks for the input!

Fred

Use the stikies they come with, after all of your testing apply a bead of clear silicone to each side of the emitter. I have never had a service call for this yet.

Clear silicone is what I use. I stick the emitter on like normal then run a very small thin beed along both sides. Cool part is pulling on it wont do a damn thing, but to get it off just twist it a bit as you pull and it will come right off - no damage to the equipment.

I have tried everything else and this has worked best for me.

Mike

I keep a small tube of clear silicon in my laptop bag just in case. The covers come in very handy as well, I always try to use one or the other.

What about those Motorola cable boxes with the convex window - no flat surface to stick to.

I've started opening the "window" and sticking the emitter inside.

Same thing w the DTV TIVO models.

Dish 942's and DTV H-10's suck as well, cause the eye is recessed, causing most of the factory sticky tape to not be used.

Put em inside the chassis. Most of the components we use are very easy to open.

Silicone and Hot melt all sound great too, but the best thing to to make sure it's CLEAN. VERY VERY CLEAN.

Also, I have a product I use for double sided tape applications... it's called VHB tape from 3M. It's a clear double sided tape, good for IR reciever mounting too (looks way better than the white foam double sided tape). I even use with large zip ties to mount smaller components inside racks or 42" enclosures. Use a very sharp razor blade to cut and manage it.

$60 a roll, last you a year.

I just superglue gel the crap out of the things to these cable boxes. Comcast could care less and they NEVER come off. Some of the new DVR boxes we are getting have a 1/8" IR input.
Anyone know where I can find 3/16" to 1/8" adaptors? The URC MRF-250 is supposed to be changing to 1/8" plugs anyway.