I am Norm I work for Crutchfield today we're going to show you how to it wall
mount a TV the what we have here is a TV that's you've already taken out of the
box it's brand-new and the very first thing that we're going to do is we're
going to mount the wood these are called the verticals and they're going to get
mounted to the TV this is what the TV actually hangs off of and in this
particular one there is an adjustment knob it's important that when you hook
the verticals that the knobs are facing on the outside not the inside much
easier if the knobs on the outside you can just reach from the side adjust it
if they're on the inside you got to reach up from underneath and it's kind
of awkward so when you'll need a phillips screwdriver and on most tvs
there'll be four mounting holes pretty much all tvs so you want to make sure
that when you're putting this on here that the bottom edge or the verticals
are not sticking out past works fine doesn't look good
so on a lot of tvs there is a shipping
screw that's designed to protect the back of the panel remove those you're
not going to use them and I'm using a Phillips screwdriver
not a flat blade screwdriver
in the box that these came in there's also a long assortment of nuts and bolts
screws out of all of these you're only going to use four of them all the rest
of these are extras and they're all different sizes and lengths and stuff
like that so one of the things you have to be careful of when you are finding
which set of screws see where I just took and just I just hand tighten the
screw down see how much of the gap is remaining there's a metal stop that's
designed to prevent the screw from going any further in there one of the things
you got to keep in mind is is that do not take your build screwdriver and keep
cranking because it'll go through the stop and into the back of the screen and
you've just bought yourself a TV so one of the things that happens fairly often
is that the manufacturers of the TV wall mounts will give their best guess as to
what will work and so we took a few minutes to find the right combination of
spacers so that they would physically hold these in so this turned out to be
the right combination for us
so one of the things I do is is that there's different slots in the thing
I'll actually push it all the way up so that I know that I'm as far as I can go
that way I know that these are the exact same height and the reason why that's
important is so that when you go to hang the TV on the wall the TV's level is not
cockeyed one way or the other after I've tighten it I actually go
Brown one more time and just make sure that I haven't missed one these are used
to lock the the TV to the wall so you can't accidentally hit a tree shoulder
something like that and unlock it you actually push these down just a little
bit what we're gonna do now is mount the horizontal piece and this a lot of the
mounts the horizontal piece which goes on the wall and this is what the TV
actually hooks on not all of them but a lot of the TV wall mounts they'll have
literally cut into it a little triangle pointing and this points up and the the
other indicator is that the label is done so you if you hear it upside down
you can't read it so have it right-side up
you're gonna take and this has popped in and you know that the verticals are
mounted on the TV and they're centered left to right you take the vert the
horizontal make sure it's centered left to right and then you take supplies and
you want to put the zip ties on there tight enough
that it takes some work to slide the bracket left to right so now if my
assistant will come over here for a second and lift it up from the bottom a
little bit
and rotate and one of the things I'm gonna see I've got on my shoulder right
here so done you've got the balance don't let the thing flip over you do not
remove these packing materials because one of the things that I did but I don't
think that I mentioned it to Jim was I actually washed my hands to get rid of
the naturally occurring oils on your finger it's easy to get off but the less
you can put it on the screen the less it is to take care of it
so I'll just reach over and put a mark
and go and put her back down so we now know where the TV is gonna get mounted
on the wall we're actually gonna pop these back off and we're actually gonna
go through the process of mounting the horizontal piece and a little set of
nippers can be anything and pop pop so now what we're gonna do is with my
helper again if you'll hold this and see where it's right there and we're gonna
do a little bit of exploring to see where the studs are so you slide it to
the right and see how that's starting to show that there's more or something
there and it'll turn and then if you go in others there's an actual stud right
here as you keep going back it'll start disappearing again as you go off the
other side so that's pretty close that's actually almost perfect one of the
things I do rather than draw a pencil mark is I just use regular painters tape
and Cugine just peel back off
glasses I know that I'm pretty close to right here and you can also flip it
upside down so you'll see a this particular one is a red arrow so I'm
just gonna slide it over a little bit and bring her down reason why I started
doing this particular technique was putting a TV in for a client full five
years ago and was not happy that I was drawing pencil marks on the wall so see
how it's lined up and then if you come the other side so that's pretty close
what we can do is here we're actually gonna slide the mount a little bit this
way because I know that the bolt will actually drilling right here so and then
the other one let's do this yeah so now if you look here I know the studs on
this side but I've got solid metal so I'm actually gonna slide this a little
bit more so the remember how I said that you can have them that the horizontal
piece off-center from where the TV is but because you can put the verticals
and slide it it doesn't matter that this is off-center
you can also have a bolt here and a bolt here and nothing on this side plenty
strong so here if you are comfortable putting pencil marks on the wall you do
not need to do this but if you got somebody that doesn't want it then
definitely do this
see we're lit up come in from the other side so I know that the my studs are
right there and you just peel it back off so one of the things that happens is
in the same kit that comes with the wall mount you're gonna get four lag bolts
and you want to pre-drill and what you do is you want to drill bit that is
small enough if you hold it up then you can actually see the threads on both
sides cordless drill works great for this and one of the things you do is you
drill only as deep as it's going to go in so the sometimes you just under
sticking the case of drill bits a little too long but so let me show you this
yeah so in this particular case I'm only drilling like I'm still gonna leave
about this much of it out you don't have to but it's a good idea so and you put
the drill if it's to speed you put on the faster speed forgot something one of
the things that happens is in a home rather than a warehouse I would have a
drop cloth here to pick up any debris or stuff like that and the other thing that
I do is I'll just take a piece of the same kind of painters tape and I'll
actually put it right below and have it hanging out a little bit and it will
grab some not all the sheetrock dust that falls down and sometimes I do the
combination so now when you're drilling I actually drill slightly downhill just
a little bit and it's not much like four or five degrees so that if by any chance
I happen not to go completely in the stud and the TV wants to pull away this
is very very unlikely the TV mounts got to go uphill so it's just a little
margin of safety so high speed
and then socket wrench socket on here
ribbon okay so now so once you've got this almost all the way down you would
take a level and I this is a level that actually has a magnetic strip on the
bottom and you just put it right there and helpers gonna raise it up so that
you want the bubble not not only between the lines but dead center between the
lies so I tighten this down enough that I could still do this and I'm gonna go
crank it a little bit more and as you feel this thing starting to tighten up
stop and he's still gonna stay there I look to make sure the bubble still in
the center I grab my drill still on high speed and I drill this side and I'm
drilling slightly downhill
sorry
I look it's still perfectly centered in the air then drill the two bottom ones
same idea up very slightly
and then once I pull the form down actually go through just one time just
to make sure that they all and I physically just reach up and just make
sure all the washers are tight so mounts on the wall so now we take the TV take
the TV and we're actually going to literally just hang it on the wall when
we do that these knobs that are here I loosen them up and I bring it back like
this yep and then tighten it back up just a little bit just enough so a
little bit of friction there you go keep in mind I've washed my hands along and
this time and the remember the two levers on the bottom one of the each
vertical from snapping it in we're gonna pull and it snaps into place the next
step would be to turn it on power up do the setup stuff like that if you've got
more questions totally cool to call us email chat we're glad to help we've been
doing this a long time and this is just really fun stuff to have in your house
thank you very much