jrtm Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 I have a B&W LCR600 centre speaker that I would like to mount on the wall. It weighs 12.5kgs and its depth is 311mm. Does anyone know where I can get a wall mount that is inconspicuous?
ritzav Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 I have the same centre speaker and this is one i was looking at at one stage http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/viewp...ductid=OMB07060 But then gave up as mine just sits on an entertainment unit and i just put some rubber pads under it, which seems to be isolating the speaker from the equipment inside the unit very well.
jrtm Posted September 25, 2008 Author Posted September 25, 2008 I have the same centre speaker and this is one i was looking at at one stagehttp://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/viewp...ductid=OMB07060 But then gave up as mine just sits on an entertainment unit and i just put some rubber pads under it, which seems to be isolating the speaker from the equipment inside the unit very well. That looks exactly what I am after. Do you think dry wall with butterfly screws will hold the brackets and the centre speaker? The wall studs are unfortunately off centre.
ritzav Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 That looks exactly what I am after. Do you think dry wall with butterfly screws will hold the brackets and the centre speaker? The wall studs are unfortunately off centre. Sorry, Not sure. I am not too skillful in areas of DIY but it might be worth asking the web-site itself before ordering and also your local hardware store or someone here may have a suggestions. And if it works out for you, please do let me know by posting back or uploading a picture as I am a little keen on doing it, luckily ours is a brick wall so my guess is mounting this should be an easy task if i go down that path. goodluck
Shonky* Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 As a non trade person I think you might be pushing your luck with those butterfly screws.
fawlty99 Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 As a non trade person I think you might be pushing your luck with those butterfly screws. If you had hollow wall behind both brackets then I'd suggest attaching a piece of ply (say 6 mm) to the wall behind the speaker and then attach the brackets to the ply. The width of the speaker would mean at least one stud was available for screws and use hollow wall mounts in the 4 corners. Paint the ply same colour as the wall & I doubt you'd notice it.
Mr.Bitey Posted September 25, 2008 Posted September 25, 2008 Personally i'd go a little thicker than 6mm... and use a FEW of the bigger 9kg ramset toggles (with the spring loaded anchor) plus fixing the piece of board to the stud with some LONG wood screws (measure the thickness of the wall, subtract the thickness of the plasterboard on one BOTH sides, add the thickness of the plywood/mdf your using and that'll give you a pretty good idea about how thick the stud/noggin is you want to screw into - get a screw a little shorter than the thickness of the noggin plus (or metal screws if going into a metal frame house) the thickness of your plywood/mdf board. Between the toggles 9kg ea, and the direct fixing of the BOARD to the Stud/noggin with some long screws you should be right :-) for extra strength consider using toggles to attach the shelf brackets to the board - this will spread the weight of the speaker over the surface area of the board - if you just fix the speaker bracket to the board with small screws it'll likely rip out because the board isnt that thick. (You could use thicker board, but you'll see it). Make sure you dont put the toggles holding the BOARD to the WALL where you want to fix the speaker bracket :-) Use washers on the toggles when fixing to the board else that may pull through. Cheers, Bitey
joz Posted September 26, 2008 Posted September 26, 2008 Heres a link to a pic of mine... Early HT pics Its basically a custom L bracket screwed heavily into the studs.It has some extra bracing at the 90deg joins though and id done in about 20mm square tube. From most angles its invisible and the center channel looks as if floating. More pics if you click on the link to HT in my sig.
djOS Posted September 26, 2008 Posted September 26, 2008 (edited) On my first HT I had a timber shelf mounted to the gyprock wall using 4 plaster-screw mounts and while it held to the wall quite well, after a while the plaster seemed to be pulling away from the timber frame behind so i got a lamp table to sit my center on instead. In this pic you can still see the 4 metal plaster-screw mounts just above the speaker. Edited September 26, 2008 by djOS
el-ricardo Posted October 10, 2008 Posted October 10, 2008 I have the same centre speaker and this is one i was looking at at one stagehttp://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/viewp...ductid=OMB07060 But then gave up as mine just sits on an entertainment unit and i just put some rubber pads under it, which seems to be isolating the speaker from the equipment inside the unit very well. Thank you, I've been looking for ages for something that could hold my 30kg Klipsch centre and this is perfect. Ordered yesterday and received today so thank you for the post, it's appreciated.
moochy1503560064 Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 (edited) heres my DIY attempt last year http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/pr1mo82/Picture636.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/pr1mo82/Picture643.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j99/pr1mo82/Picture644.jpg Edited October 13, 2008 by moochy
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