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Rynn
Jul 23, 2003

So this morning I get a call that one of our TVs had fallen off the wall. I work in IT at a Fortune 500 company and any TVs with a network connected device are our responsibility. I was pretty amazed that a TV had just fallen since (I thought) our maintenance crew does a pretty solid job. That confidence was shattered when I saw this lovely job.


Welp.


Hey guys look at that sturdy stud! Oh wait...



Amazingly the TV still works. When I showed this to the head of the maintenance department he actually said that the mount was made to go right into drywall. This is a heavy 47" TV on an adjustable arm, there's no way you can anchor this to drywall and call it a day.

Now every TV in the entire company campus needs to be inspected. And we already found a TV that's coming out of the wall somewhere else.

:bravo:

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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

It would've been faster to just use a nail and some wire heh.

TheDon01
Mar 8, 2009


Jeez, how anyone could have thought that was a good idea is beyond me. Suprised it held long enough for them to clean up their tools. Maaaaaybe if it was flat-mounted.

I just had a similar instance at my new home with my old first gen 52"1080p flatscreen. We have a perfect spot to put it on a swingarm mount in our living room but I was worried that the ~45lbs swung out on an arm would torque up the stud sometime in the future.

I solved the problem by buying a new TV thats about 1/6th the weight. Old one went in the bedroom.

the spyder
Feb 18, 2011
I never saw the photos, but years ago when I did some IT contracting for a local home theatre installer the crew apparently "damaged" a $10k 70" Plasma. This was right as they came out and I believe it was a Pioneer Elite super-fancy unreleased model. It was installed in a street of dreams home, our local version of a contractors high end subdivision where they "showcase" their work with local architects. Apparently the crew did exactly this. They mounted this 5"+ thick, several hundred pound TV using nothing but wing drywall anchors. It fell off the wall one night and cracked the screen. This was just days before the public tours opened. I have no idea how, but the supplier got a replacement in and the owner ate the costs. Needless to say the company went under due to more and more gently caress ups like this.

Edit* The damaged TV sat in their storage area for the next two years, the owner kept hoping he could find a "good deal" on a replacement screen... It ended up in a dumpster when they closed.

JEEVES420
Feb 16, 2005

The world is a mess... and I just need to rule it
As someone who works in Digital Signage that makes me laugh. You have to use plywood screwed to the studs (or reinforce the wall) and a proper VESA mount.

the spyder posted:

I never saw the photos, but years ago when I did some IT contracting for a local home theatre installer the crew apparently "damaged" a $10k 70" Plasma. This was right as they came out and I believe it was a Pioneer Elite super-fancy unreleased model. It was installed in a street of dreams home, our local version of a contractors high end subdivision where they "showcase" their work with local architects. Apparently the crew did exactly this. They mounted this 5"+ thick, several hundred pound TV using nothing but wing drywall anchors. It fell off the wall one night and cracked the screen. This was just days before the public tours opened. I have no idea how, but the supplier got a replacement in and the owner ate the costs. Needless to say the company went under due to more and more gently caress ups like this.

Edit* The damaged TV sat in their storage area for the next two years, the owner kept hoping he could find a "good deal" on a replacement screen... It ended up in a dumpster when they closed.

Last year it took 3 of us and a crank lift to hang a $30k 92in 4k screen that weighed over 300 lbs. I was standing on the back of the lift with the screen lifted, I stepped off the lift and drat near dropped the screen when the lift started to fall over. I had to jump back on it to balance it again. Scared the poo poo out of me.

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