TV Mounting-Any Suggestions?

[PP]

Like everyone else on this board, we are constantly changing the bus. Or is the bus just evolving? Anyway, we're putting new furniture in the lounge area and are trying to come up with a solution for the TV. We're going with a 26" flat panel and the best I can come up with is mounting a pole up from the floor behind the driver's seat and affixing the TV to it on a swivel. We don't want to have to put stuff away (TV on couch, etc.) every time we move the bus. TV mounted to ceiling is not an option. (Wife said that) She won't let me put a swing away arm to the wall between the windows either (Prevost). I'm stumped! Someone must have a good idea or solution Please help.
Thanks, Will

[RichardEntrekin]

If you decide you want to mount it on a motorized swing down from the ceiling, then PM me. I'll send pics of the one I took out of my Newell.

[RickB]

I don't know what part of the country you are in but up here in the north we have stores called Menards. In the clearance sections at Menards are super heavy duty lockable and completely adjustable arms that mount with a clamp to an existing secured surface. I am buying a 2nd one for home here because they are only $25 and they are really, really heavy duty. They were easily $150 to 200 originally. The parts alone are worth alot.

Make sure they are well secured because you wouldn't want one of these hittin you in the noggin.

Hope it helps

Rick

[PP]

If you decide you want to mount it on a motorized swing down from the ceiling, then PM me. I'll send pics of the one I took out of my Newell.

Richard, thank you for the kind offer, but the wife says no TV mount on the ceiling, motorized or not.
Rick, I've heard of Menards, but I'm not sure if there is one around here. I'm a Minnesota transplant so I'm thinking that's where I've heard of them. I'll check online and see what I can find out about them here on the west coast. We mounted the bedroom TV on the wall with a swing arm and it works really good. That one is a 22" flat panel. We just fold it up to the wall for travel. The walls are only 30" high to the window bottom in the lounge and wife won't let me mount a swing arm between the windows. She is the boss and we all know that a happy wife makes for a happy home and when you're fulltiming in a 40' bus-well, you get the idea. Thanks,

[Blacksheep]

I got tired of doing the same thing! Unhooking coax and moving the TV for travel, get to your destination and have to hook it all back up again! What a pain!
Here's what I did and the cost of the mechanism was about 100 bucks. The cabinet was about 100.00 and I borrowed the electric FP until I can replace it!

Ace

[PP]

Thanks Ace, that's more what we had in mind. just hadn't considered a corner stand-wife likes that! My head was stuck on along the wall like a console table or backed up to the driver's seat like a 30" wide bookshelf, neither of which really appealed. Your idea opens up a whole lotta possibilities, Thanks, Will

[Blacksheep]

Will we had the TV along the wall under the windows on the drivers side BUT to see the TV you had to be directly on the other side or at a slight angle. Having it on an angle as you see, it gives us more opportunities to view it from different vantage points such as the kitchen table or sitting at our breakfast bar/counter or anywhere we sit in the LR, it can still be viewed pretty easy without getting a cramp in your neck!

Ace

[PP]

Thanks Ace, I had a feeling we weren't the only ones with this gripe and that someone with more brain capacity than I must have found a solution It seems like a lot of people put the TV above the driver up front in the cap, but we don't want to infringe on the upper window. Moreover, since I already routed all the coax up front from the Sat dish, bedroom TV, DVD, and reciever to junction boxes behind the driver's seat, this is the area designated and that's not going to change. Check out the computer table I made that fits at the end of the couch. I spin the passenger seat around to work at and it hides the cordless keyboard inside on a slider. When the weather gets nicer I'll drag it outside and finish it to match the Walnut in the bus. Will

[Blacksheep]

Hey that 's a keen idea. I have seen other people use the passenger seat that spins around to do similar things!

Keep up the good work!

Ace

[rip]

We fulltime and when we designed our bus it did not make any sense to us to always be watching TV on an angle.We have one couch on the passenger side and a 32" flat screen right across from the couch against the wall on the drivers side.I have a desk and chair to the right of the TV right behind the drivers seatYes you give up some seating,but 95% of the time it is just the two of us.We still have seating for six if we need it.We have been fulltiming for six years and I would not change the layout.That's the great thing about building your own,you can do it your way.
    Don

[PP]

Hi Don,
Thanks for the input. We considered that idea, but the wife's recliner and a small end table are on that side of the aisle and we didn't want the TV in front of the windows. Like you guys, it's just the two of us 99% of the time. Unless a better idea comes up, we're going to figure out something along the lines of the corner piece. That way the recliner and the couch face the TV with the least compromising. Will