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My guide camera is a modified Connectix Quickcam Grayscale. I had a Cookbook camera case lying around, so I used that for the camera. The following pictures illustrate the construction.
 

The QC camera head board is RTV´d to a piece of 3mm Foamie, which is cut to fit the inside of the CB housing. There is a rectangular hole in the foamy for the CCD to poke through. I put a coated 25mm window in the front cover of the housing, then RTV´d the Foamie to the front cover, aligning it with one screw hole to aide in setup. The housing was put in place, and a MagLight flashlight was placed on the back of the QC PCB to get the whole mess to stick.
 

The rear cover was constructed from two 1/16 inch thick pieces of ABS - one cut to fit the inside diameter of the housing, and the other to fit the outside diameter. A 6mm piece of Foamie was cut to the same size as the smaller ABS part, and the two were RTV´d together. They were placed inside the housing, and the larger ABS piece was RTV´d to the outside. This was weighted to hold them in place while the RTV cured.
 

After the RTV cured a while, I soldered a ribbon cable to a 10-pin single row header, and then to the camera head PCB. This assembly was then placed in the housing again, and the header epoxied (J-B Weld) into the slot provided. The AB gate wires were brought from the connector and the PCB for attachment to a toggle switch mounted on the rear cover.
 

This picture was taken at a slight angle - the CCD is centered better than it looks.

Mounted on the ETX. I used velcro bands to tie the cable to the body to relieve strain. The cable was made by removing the 9-pin connector from the end of the cable, and replacing it with a keyed 10-pin Molex KK-100 socket and crimp pins. I put RTV on the wires to make a strain relief, but the original heat shrink and molded grommet need to be removed and the strain relief re-done.