My Philips 32" LCD was 21½ inches tall, and I had 22½" above a closet door to fit it in my small bedroom. I spent about half a day measuring and calculating the exact spot to bore the holes for the rack. After installing the rack, I mounted the TV onto it, and it cleared the ceiling and the top of the door by a half inch each. BUT, after putting the TV at the proper angle and tightening all the set-screws etc., the TV was 1/4" too low and the top of the door hit it when opened, and there was about a 1" gap between the top of the TV and the ceiling. I took the whole thing down, plugged the holes that I had made, drilled new holes about a half inch higher, and put it up again. That worked just fine, EXCEPT THAT after a few minutes in that position the TV again came down about 1/4" or so, and the door scraped the bottom of the TV.
I THEN DISCOVERED WHAT TEH PROBLEM WAS: The top bolt HOLES attaching the TV to the mount were OBLONG rather than round, and (following the instructions!) I had been careful not to over-tighten the bolts), but obviously I had not tightened them sufficiently to keep the TV from moving from the top of those holes to the bottom, so the TV was moving down on the mount. What I had to do (rather than take it all down again) was to use a very short screwdriver, have someone lift the TV so that the bolts were at the TOP of the oblong holes, and then tighten those bolts as much as I could with that short screwdriver, and that did it! This is why my principal negative comment about the mount was that these holes were OBLING rather than round.
The only other problem I had was with the spacers which came with the unit. There were two sizes, but neither size fitted the 6MM bolts which my TV called for. (I needed the spacers, so I managed to drilled out the holes in the smaller ones to fit my bolts. If I hadn't done this, I would not have been able to tighten those bolts even with the short screw driver.)
Otherwise the mount was PERFECT for my situation, and it is working perfectly since then.
Many thanks,
James B. Songy
Lockport, LA 70374"..." Read more
- Jim in Lockport, LA 70374