Stopping our child pulling our 42G20 off its stand?
Stopping our child pulling our 42G20 off its stand?
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ALawson

Original Poster:

8,046 posts

278 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Well Joseph is now standing up well and liking to stand/bounce next to the stand with out reasonably large TV on it.

Does anyone know if you can get any form of leash that will fix to the back of the screen and fix into the plasterboard behind the TV, to stop if being pulled of the stand. I don't want to mount the TV straight onto the wall, has anybody got any other ideas apart from the obvious.

Many Thanks

Alex

eybic

9,212 posts

201 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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I'm sure I've seen similar in pub/bars etc. some sort of chain bolted to the wall and stuck to the TV so it doesn't hit the deck.

Fort Jefferson

8,237 posts

249 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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You should get a leash, and tie the child to the wall so it can't reach the telly.biggrin

bigandclever

14,315 posts

265 months

Monday 27th June 2011
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Earthquake straps

selwonk

2,143 posts

252 months

normalbloke

8,725 posts

246 months

Tuesday 28th June 2011
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Supervise it.

Obiwonkeyblokey

5,400 posts

267 months

Tuesday 28th June 2011
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my little boy smashed the crap out of ours a few months ago when the GP was on. He was walking around with a plastic blue hammer "fixing" things. He then decided he would fix the telly. I couldnt quite cover the distance from the sofa to the TV fast enough.

Oh well, got a good price for him...

shakotan

10,862 posts

223 months

Tuesday 28th June 2011
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Yet another topic advocating not having children! wink

budgie smuggler

6,024 posts

186 months

Tuesday 28th June 2011
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Obiwonkeyblokey said:
I couldnt quite cover the distance from the sofa to the TV fast enough.

Oh well, got a good price for him...
rofl

I still haven't been forgiven for using a plastic toy drill to do a bit of artistic customisation to the fireplace when I was a toddler and my dad was trying to watch the F1. smile

ALawson

Original Poster:

8,046 posts

278 months

Tuesday 28th June 2011
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Don't really care about the TV that can always be replaced, I think I will go and look at a set of those straps.

Ta

Toffer

1,528 posts

288 months

Friday 1st July 2011
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You could always simply wall mount the TV on a swivel bracket above your AV equipment? Good luck!

HellDiver

5,708 posts

209 months

Friday 1st July 2011
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Keep the kid in the kitchen with it's mother. Simple.

smile

Steff

1,421 posts

290 months

Friday 1st July 2011
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Get a 32" Sony CRT, at 78kgs he'll have no chance of moving it

headcase

2,389 posts

244 months

Sunday 3rd July 2011
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Google peerless stabilis

E31Shrew

5,962 posts

219 months

Thursday 7th July 2011
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If its sitting on a wooden piece of furniture, just bolt it via the footstand. Or, as said earlier, just attach some cable to the wall via one of the holes in the back of the case

miniman

29,775 posts

289 months

Thursday 7th July 2011
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Be careful if the wall you tie it to is plasterboard, with a small amount of gravity-assisted momentum it would easily rip the fixing out of the wall.

ALawson

Original Poster:

8,046 posts

278 months

Friday 8th July 2011
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Well, £15 later in Tesco, trying to find a stud with a stud finder I relented and started drilling pilot holes.

4 holes later and the TV is now fixed to the wall, the kit is quite adjustable and the wire are tight. I don't think it should be possible to get it rocking or pull it over! Famous last words.