Ever since seeing how Alex Honnold has a hangboard mounted above the door in his van, I wanted to do the same. Good way to get some training in wherever I might end up.
Problem is, there isn’t as much space above the door frame in my van, and the sliding door track gets in the way.
So I started with a Metolius Compact II training board, and cut the bottom rungs off. This was required for clearance, and I’m not really advanced enough to make use of them anyway. I also bored out two of the original mounting holes on the board to accomodate using studs/nuts to mount the board instead of wood screws.
Then I used an 1/4″ aluminum plate to make a mounting adapter, so I could move the bolts above the sliding door mechanism. Countersunk some bolts to make the studs for the hangboard, and some 3M VHB to prevent metal-on-metal rubbing when mounted to the van.
Installed some plusnuts above the door frame to bolt the adapter plate to, then bolted the hangboard to the plate.
Done!
Andrew Liu 