RE: Re: Mount a plasma on a metal stud plasterboard wall

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can't really help on that; effectively ours wasn't fixed to the wall at
all,
it was bolted to the sheet of ply on the back of the wall, so unless the
whole partition came down, the screen was going nowhere.

In term of the stud, we could just pull the skirting board away to see
where
all the studs were, but as I say, that's in an office with bog-standard
plastic skirting. Haven't a clue what to use to go into the metal stud
though.

Have you tried asking the same question on the DVD forums?
(http://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/
<http://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/>
)
- you'll definitely get more of a response there.

Pete

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From: Jeremy Aston [mailto:jeremyaston@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 April 2005 11:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Mount a plasma on a metal stud plasterboard wall



Thanks Peter,

I don't have access to the back of the wall - well I do but it is a
staircase and the builders I am working for will not be best pleased
if I rip that out :-)

I am not sure what the benefits of putting a sheet of ply on the front
would be and if you did that if you could rely on normal screws
through the ply with the ply fixed with the plasterboard spring type
fixings or if you are best fixing the mount through the ply and
plasterboard with fixings so everything has anchor on the back of the
plaster board.

Just out of interest do you know the best fixings to go into the metal
stud with?  I assume you have to drill a pilot hole?

Cheers

Jez


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "White, Peter" <peter.white@b...>
wrote:
> We fixed through the wall and through a ply board for a plasma
mounted at
> the office (on a metal stud wall), but it was easy for us to do, as
we had
> access to the back of the wall, and it wasn't really in a public
area, so
> aesthetics weren't important.
>
> That said, IMHO it was overkill, but then again, it wasn't my
screen.  I'm
> sure someone with better physics skill that I can probably tell you
all
> about the lateral forces compared to the racking strength of the
wall, and
> as most of the force is downwards, so not as scary as it seems.
Didn't stop
> me from using bloody great coach bolts for my own plasma into a
brick wall
> though, and worrying every time it creaked for weeks afterwards!
>
> Pete
>
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> From: Jeremy Aston [mailto:jeremyaston@y...]
> Sent: 07 April 2005 01:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Mount a plasma on a metal stud plasterboard wall
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been asked to mount a plasma onto a metal stud plasterboard
> wall.   It's a 42" screen with a weight (not inc mount) of around
> 31kg.  It is either a Hitachi or NEC panel btw - not sure which one
> the customer will go for yet.
>
> Has anyone done such a thing and what approach did you use?  Is it
> safe to fix to the board and through a couple of upright studs or is
> it better to fix a ply board first and fit through that?  If it is
> possible then what are the best fixings to use?  Are there some 3rd
> party mounts better for this sort of thing than others?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Jez
>
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