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Old 09-19-2005, 08:07 AM
Xavier Paredes Xavier Paredes is offline
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Xavier Paredes
Hello dear forum,

I just wanted to update you all on how this worked out.

The wall I was attempting to install the plasma on is a wall which it's other side is the side of the building. After drilling a hole for the first toggle anchor we learned that there was a sort of wooden rack (if you will) that is attached (somehow) to the brick wall of the buiding which as ultimately holding the sheetrock. In some places there was 1.5 in. of space between this rack and the brick wall and in others there was less space. Clearly not enough clearace for the toggles to snap open.

We wound up chiseling-off some wall to make space for the toggles. Very time consuming. We used about 6 toggles and bolts. We also used about 5 concrete anchos (big ones) to anchor the bracket to the brick wall.

As you can see we used a set of toggles and concrete anchors to hold this aprox. 175lb monster (plasma 150 lb., bracket aprox. 125 lb.).

It's been already a couple of weeks and the TV is rock solid against the wall, uhhh. building, uhhhh no both!

I don't even want to start telling you how dificult it was to drive the cables from the plasma down to the hole in the bottom of the wall. In a nutshell, we wound up slicing the wall to make it easier to pull the cables down.

Wall is now patched and painted and wife is happy too.

Now I'm on to finding a good surround system.

Wish me luck.

Xavier
New York.
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