I can?
Can someone please explain (preferably visually) how these Serpa quick-release mechanisms work?
And Fallschirmjäger, do you suppose you might be able to go into a little more detail about your specific solution? That picture doesn't jibe with my understanding of what you said, leaving me confused.
In this pic, you can see two 'female portions' and one 'male portion'
Normally you would mount the one male portion on your holster and use the two female portions to mount to the belt slide or paddle of your choice to allow using the same holster in multiple areas. To remove the QD holster you move the two spring loaded latches on the female portion towards the holster and rotate 1/16th? turn to disengage the teeth on the male portion. (Sometimes it almost takes three hands, which brings into question the whole "QD" thing, but... yeah, that's the idea.)
In my case, I mounted a female portion on the transmission tunnel of my car, using some threaded bolts (metric, I believe, that I found at the local home improvement store by seeing which ones would thread into the rubber donut of the 'grocery net mushroom,'. Aside from the fancy head that the loop of the netting slips over, it's pretty much just a bolt and a rubber cylinder that bulges when the bolt is tightened. Drilling the tunnel was easy, I used a very low speed and only a touch to get through the plastic. There was sufficient room behind the plastic without any wires, carpeting or other vital car parts, thankfully. My first hole was kind of ... hesitant, I drilled and then got an idea of the depth before drilling holes 2 or 3.
I should probably note that I didn't use this system to provide QD for a SERPA to be switched from the transmission tunnel to my belt. I wear a left-handed holster and used a dedicated ""normal"" holster inside the car. Us handicapped guys suffer for our sins that way.
.... andddddd, now that I'm thinking about it, I don't remember purchasing the 'net mushrooms' separately. I seem to recall that they came with the cargo nets and that I wound up with a few extras when they were all installed. I Think they came 4 to a net, and since I already had two anchors on the floor, I wound up only needing 4 of the 8 that came with two nets.
... and the picture I posted where I said "You can see the mushroom anchor ..." I guess should really be "you can see
a mushroom anchor..." since I don't have a way to take a photo of the actual installation I did. That was to give a half-ashed mental image of what one would look like if purchased.