Fear is the only thing that will deter people from stupidity. Hit your children more often. -HypoG

The Sweet Fruit of Labour

So I finally got off off my lazy ass to set everything I recently purchased up. Due to the lack of space, I needed to mount most of the stuff onto the wall, so I requested my uncle to bring his drill so we could set everything up.

This is how messy my initial set up looks:

20100721_014

Luckily, the TV mounting and installation was done by the delivery guy so what we needed to do was merely mount the 5 home theatre satellites and do some cable management.

 

Tools needed were pretty basic;

1) Pencil

2) Wall Plug

3) Screw

4) Drill set

5) Hammer

6) Plastic Bag

7) Measuring Tape

8) Patience

 

The first step was to visualize how I wanted to mount the speakers. I figured we’ll put two speakers right next to the TV and the front smaller satellite below the TV. The remaining two speakers which are used for surround sound will be set behind the seated position.

 

We started off with the smaller satellite which was to be placed below the TV. The first step is to measure the distance between the two sockets which will hang onto the screw from the wall. Then, draw two “X” marks on the wall with the required distance. Tape the plastic bag below the “X” marks and start drilling!

IMG_20100726_124407IMG_20100726_124423

Once the hole is drilled, it’s time to hammer wall plugs into the wall and later screw in some screws which will act as mount points.

IMG_20100726_124631IMG_20100726_124534

IMG_20100726_124655

This is basically repeated for all the other mount points. Measure distance between sockets behind speaker, and drill on the wall with the appropriate spacing. All the other speakers have their sockets vertically placed.

IMG_20100726_130639

Here you can see one hole drilled and the pencil marking above for the other mount socket.

 

Once done the only thing left to do is mount all the speakers up.

IMG_20100726_141234IMG_20100726_141142

After this it’s just a matter of cable managements to make everything look neat and tidy. Here’s a picture of the end work;

IMG_20100801_020929IMG_20100801_020939IMG_20100801_020954IMG_20100801_021001

That red light you see is the Astro B.yon Decoder Winking smile

 

Till next time kids.

Popularity: 12% [?]

One Response to “The Sweet Fruit of Labour”

  1. CJ says:

    not bad, mines some what similar as well, maybe better

Leave a Reply