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Elaine Benes
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:15 pm Post subject: Need ideas for inexpensive simple mount for a G90... |
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My standard el cheapo easy as pie black pipe and eye bolts mounting method is proving tremendously difficult to figure out for my G90, the bolt holes are metric, so I can't just screw the eye bolts into the mount fixing holes, while I could bolt some unistrut to the bottom and use that to mount the eye bolts to, it means quite a bit of unistrut drilling, which isn't easy...
So anyone have any suggestions for an easy, cheap way to ceiling mount a G90 ?
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draganm
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Elaine Benes
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the suggestion, within the budget, but I think I'm going with a G70 mount on the front, using a threaded rod through my eyelets and hooking the mount to it, then a piece of unistrut mounted to the back mount points and regular eye bolts attached to the unistrut.
I have everything to do that here, but maybe I'll order some metric thread eyebolts just to make it look neater in the future.
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stefuel
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Did you even ask Curt if he has a factory mount?
He has parted out a few.
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wallace123456
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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I used uni-strut. I bolted the uni-strut to the bottom of the pj using the screw holes that the feet used to use. I attached a few pics; hope this helps.
Ignore the pieces in the middle; they will be removed (one of these days  ).
Oh, and cutting the uni-strut is easy; I used a jig saw.
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Elaine Benes
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| stefuel wrote: | Did you even ask Curt if he has a factory mount?
He has parted out a few. |
I didn't, but thanks for the suggestion....
I used the G70 projector side mount I had here, bolted it up tight(it fits exactly, just doesn't extend to the back most two bolt holes).
Then I used a heavy gauge piece of threaded rod run through two of my eyebolts to hang the mount off of. In the back, I bolted a piece of unistrut and bolted two eyebolts to the unistrut, then hung the back from the other set of eye bolts I had left on the ceiling, and used a piece of black pipe like always for the back.
A small bonus of doing it this way, I discovered, was when I had to shift the projector slightly to one side, all I had to do was crank away on one of the nuts I"d left on the threaded rod and it pushed the projector to one side, as it was too heavy to slide on the threaded rod...
I'll post some pics later if anyone is interested...
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