TV mount completed
Jan. 3rd, 2009 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyFor the TV we picked up for the basement, we really wanted a ceiling mount. There are actually relatively few ceiling mounts except for quite expensive commercial ones. I found one for a reasonable price, but it was too long and I'd have to modify it anyway.
Last night I cut some pieces of T iron off of an old dead garage door opener's beam, welded them into a rectangle and drilled them for the 200x400mm mounting holes. Today I puttered around with pieces of junk I had lying around the garage until inspiration struck. Here's the result. Two pieces of threaded rod through the rectangle, four eye bolts into a piece of 3/4" plywood, the bottom two snugged tight, the top two loose to allow tilting, and two U bolts securing it to a piece of 1" iron pipe, which goes into a street elbow and flange screwed to a ceiling joist. Total expenditure was the iron I had lying around, and $28 for the rest of the bits at Lowes. And I guess about 6 hours of puttering around with it or driving to Lowes for parts.
Last night I cut some pieces of T iron off of an old dead garage door opener's beam, welded them into a rectangle and drilled them for the 200x400mm mounting holes. Today I puttered around with pieces of junk I had lying around the garage until inspiration struck. Here's the result. Two pieces of threaded rod through the rectangle, four eye bolts into a piece of 3/4" plywood, the bottom two snugged tight, the top two loose to allow tilting, and two U bolts securing it to a piece of 1" iron pipe, which goes into a street elbow and flange screwed to a ceiling joist. Total expenditure was the iron I had lying around, and $28 for the rest of the bits at Lowes. And I guess about 6 hours of puttering around with it or driving to Lowes for parts.
