TV mounting location

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jdlisenby

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The CoRV (78 Royale) has the sidebath floorplan. I am trying to figure out the best way to mount a 15-24" TV. so it can be seen in the front, the
coach has the diner converted to a coach. I saw where someone had mounted the tv on a swivel behind the driver's seat but I can't find the picture.
Anybody have any other ideas of where to mount one in the limited space available?

Thanks!

JD
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JD Lisenby- USAF Ret
1978 Royale-455
Electromotive Tec2 FI & ignition

Navarre, FL
 
After living with several different tv mount locations in our two coaches, we found the best and easiest is to simply set as large a flat panel as you wish on the engine cover between the two seats. There is enough room between the back of the passenger seat and the forward end of the dinette seat to just slide the tv in for travel. We cover it with a light weight throw to prevent scratching. I also added a short loop of picture hanger wire to the top two mount holes on the tv so it can be hung from any kind of a hook indoors or out when you want to.

To make it easy to move between the two coaches I sewed up a couple of pouches. One holds the sat. box, sat remote and an hdmi cable and the other holds the rg6 cable that connects the sat. finder to the sat. box as well as the security chain and lock. We normally set the sat. finder (The smallest of the Winegard auto finder units) out beside or in front of the coach and run the rg6 cable through the drivers or passengers window so only a relatively short cable is needed. That also bypasses all the old coax cable and connections inside the coach so we get a pure signal from sat. finder to sat. box.

This simple solution works well in both the 1977 Clasco and the 1978 Royale.

Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
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Deb,
> I haven't got the coach up here yet (soon! VERY soon!), but sounds like you might be talking about something like the set-up my PO put in.
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6993/DCP_0543.JPG
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/data/6993/DCP_0545.JPG
> It will swing around and can be viewed from the front (to a degree I would say) and swings right out of the way against the back of the couch when in
> transit.

My solution swings down, so most of the time the TV hangs face down. If
I want to watch TV, I press it up a bit, and it swivels down. I was a
bit afraid that the mechanism might not hold during the constant
earthquakes, but so far, knock-on-wood, things have been fine.

It is fully out of the way, and I do not hit it upon standing up from
the dinette. And with 6'5"-6'6" I am not really Danny DeVito sized.

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Peer Oliver Schmidt
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I used a similar type mount to the one Peer used. Unfortunately, the unit's friction cannot overcome the vibration going down the road. It would not
stay up close to the cabinet. I attached an 's' hook and two small hoops. This keeps the rear of the TV set closer to the bottom of the cabinet when
folded up out of the way.
On the inexpensive smaller TV sets the viewing angle can be narrow with little good viewing lines other than directly in front of the set.
Tom, MS II
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1975 GMC Avion
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The TV mount in our coach has a small lever that locks it in the
scrunched up to the wall, closed position for travel.
Can't find a name or model on it.

ronc

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:08:16 -0700 Thomas Phipps
writes:
> I used a similar type mount to the one Peer used. Unfortunately, the
> unit's friction cannot overcome the vibration going down the road.
> It would not
> stay up close to the cabinet. I attached an 's' hook and two small
> hoops. This keeps the rear of the TV set closer to the bottom of the
> cabinet when
> folded up out of the way.
> On the inexpensive smaller TV sets the viewing angle can be narrow
> with little good viewing lines other than directly in front of the
> set.
> Tom, MS II
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Ron & Linda Clark
North Plains, ORYGUN
78 Eleganza II
 
A warning about cabinets - the cabinet over my dinette in the E II is coming apart, it has to come out and be reglued. The weight of the TV pulled it
apart.

--johnny
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'76 23' transmode Norris upfit, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
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I found the place that worked the best for us. Back home on a shelf in the
shop. We found that we almost never watch T.V. when we are in the coach. It
was just in the way for us. So, no wires to mess with, no cable boxes, or
satellite crap on the roof of the coach, no bat wing antennae up there
either. Your uses will differ.
Jim Hupy
Salem, Or
78 GMC ROYALE 403

> I did this:
>
> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/g5956-gmc-tv-mount.html
>
> Maybe a variation on the idea might work for you.
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