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mc86

Anyone know this off-hand? I'm not seeing it in the NEC manuals and want to pick up all thread at my work's machine shop on the way to my buddies -- hope to finally install Don's machine at his place today! Is it 1/2-13 or something smaller...7/16 or maybe even 3/8? These are the four mounts on the corner, not the little ones I see a flange mounts to with the kit.

Matt

gjaky · Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 2802 Location: Budapest, Hungary

I don't know it for sure, but they are metric threads.
The four mounts in the corner are not for ceiling mount, they are for standing legs.

mc86 · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:24 pm Post subject:

Interesting -- Don told me in a PM that he'd always used unistrut approach...I assume using what you are calling the standing legs. Any ever hang one of these by those holes? OR should I pay Don to mail us the correct mount that he simply forgot to give me when I picked up the PJs?

Incidentally, 3/8"-16 threaded rod fits into those holes well...ok, well enough I thought that was the correct thread. I wonder if a M10-1.25 thread is what it really is...the lead is about 0.012" off...

Well...looks like today will be the on-floor rough-setup and signal chain playing. I don't know NEC menus, etc. yet so this is all fine...just a bummer.

Matt

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:39 pm Post subject:

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

mc86 · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:10 am Post subject:

Thanks guys -- I'll get Don to see if he can dig the mounts up and send them!

While it isn't on the ceiling, we did managed to get it psuedo-setup on the floor shooting onto a bedsheet. That is, we played just enough to learn our way around the machine and the menus. Don wasn't lying -- I can see where this will look freakin' awesome. I do loathe the convergence complexity compared to my super-simple ECP -- it is an impossible game of sorts -- trying to figure out how to get everything converged...too many choices! I also don't quite "get" the phase control yet and other facets. More to read and study.

Jon, and more importantly, his skeptic wife, was impressed already with a crappy image (BR of Planet Earth from the PS3 he bought and going into my HDF3)

Cheers,
Matt

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

Unistrut is fine, just use some right angle brackets:

The NEC convergence setup is the best ive ever seen. It is simple when you know what does what, and you can get it dead on perfect quite easily.

rtart · Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 132

Definitely get the factory mount. Lots of threads on unistrut mounting in this forum and on AVSforum as well.

wallace123456 · Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 2236 Location: Northwest VA area

I'll be glad to ship it but I don't think you really need it.

Give me a call when you get a chance.

wallace

mc86 · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:38 am Post subject:

Finally, after 6months, my buddy and I both have a bit of time to hang Don's old machine AND we have the factory mount (via don at Cliff's). Before we get together next week, I need to get the 8 little bolts that hold the factory mount's two tabs to the chassis. Anyone know what metric thread these are? Case? By guesstimate, I'd guess the holes receive a M6 x 14mm long screw? (~1/4").

[The manual shows an M4 scew that locks the PJ angle at 11degrees, but doesn't specify the other screws]

thanks!
Matt

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

Hold on and ill have a look mate Wink

EDIT: yep, metric 6mm Smile