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JulianL
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Hi everyone. I'm a newbie here, about to purchase my first plasma, but already I've found this forum incredibly useful. In an attempt to contribute something I thought I'd share my cunning, but currently untested, plan for hanging a plasma screen. Some of it might be specific to me but I suspect that it could work for many other people.
I have picture rails around my house, I have white walls, and I don't want to tear up the plaster work to hide cables. Here is my planned solution....
I'm going to drill 2 bolts into the wall, just above the picture rail, and at a 45 degree angle into the wall. I plan to use something like 10cm long, 1cm diameter bolts and screw them in so that only about 5mm of thread is clear of the wall. Because they are high up I expect them to be almost entirely hidden in the shadow of the picture rail. The bolts will only be seperated by 2 or 3 cm and be above the horizontal mid point of where I want to hang the screen.
Next I will get some white picture cord which I will wrap once around each of the bolts (that's why I plan to put 2 in, just paranoia in case one ever came loose, which would be virtually impossible due to the 45 degree downward angle into the wall), bring it down to the plasma, loop it through the carrying handles at the back (mine will be a Panny 7 series), and tie the cord in a secure knot (might need to ask a sailor about this bit!) behind the panel. Then, again just for paranoia, I'll tie up a second cord in exactly the same way so that if the first cord ever came loose then the second would act as a backup. I already checked the breaking strain of picture cord by the way, would you believe that the size up from the thinnest is 130kg breaking strain!
Finally, I'll now make up a white power cord and buy a white VGA cable and run these cables up the hanging cords (probably tie them on with white cotton), run them along the top of the picture rail and then down the corner of the room to my Sky box and DVD player.
For me the advantages of this scheme are (1) it'll disguise the cables by making it look as if the plasma is hung from them and just accentuate the effect that the screen is just another picture on the wall, (2) I don't need to hack up the walls, in fact if I subsequently want to move the screen then I don't even have any mounting holes in the walls, just the 2 bolt holes easily filled and hidden, (3) it saves the cost of a wall bracket, the whole thing will only cost about £5 to do, and (4) because of the way this will hang, it will automatically give the screen a bit of a downward tilt which, because I am mounting it slightly high, is what I want.
Anyway, maybe this will be of some interest to anyone with similar circumstances.
- Julian
I have picture rails around my house, I have white walls, and I don't want to tear up the plaster work to hide cables. Here is my planned solution....
I'm going to drill 2 bolts into the wall, just above the picture rail, and at a 45 degree angle into the wall. I plan to use something like 10cm long, 1cm diameter bolts and screw them in so that only about 5mm of thread is clear of the wall. Because they are high up I expect them to be almost entirely hidden in the shadow of the picture rail. The bolts will only be seperated by 2 or 3 cm and be above the horizontal mid point of where I want to hang the screen.
Next I will get some white picture cord which I will wrap once around each of the bolts (that's why I plan to put 2 in, just paranoia in case one ever came loose, which would be virtually impossible due to the 45 degree downward angle into the wall), bring it down to the plasma, loop it through the carrying handles at the back (mine will be a Panny 7 series), and tie the cord in a secure knot (might need to ask a sailor about this bit!) behind the panel. Then, again just for paranoia, I'll tie up a second cord in exactly the same way so that if the first cord ever came loose then the second would act as a backup. I already checked the breaking strain of picture cord by the way, would you believe that the size up from the thinnest is 130kg breaking strain!
Finally, I'll now make up a white power cord and buy a white VGA cable and run these cables up the hanging cords (probably tie them on with white cotton), run them along the top of the picture rail and then down the corner of the room to my Sky box and DVD player.
For me the advantages of this scheme are (1) it'll disguise the cables by making it look as if the plasma is hung from them and just accentuate the effect that the screen is just another picture on the wall, (2) I don't need to hack up the walls, in fact if I subsequently want to move the screen then I don't even have any mounting holes in the walls, just the 2 bolt holes easily filled and hidden, (3) it saves the cost of a wall bracket, the whole thing will only cost about £5 to do, and (4) because of the way this will hang, it will automatically give the screen a bit of a downward tilt which, because I am mounting it slightly high, is what I want.
Anyway, maybe this will be of some interest to anyone with similar circumstances.
- Julian