Ask MetaFilter posts tagged with mounting

Your art was the prettiest art of all the art...

disillusioned — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:25:51 -0800

How do I mount my enormous masonite painting? So I just received my painting and I'm thrilled and yet have no idea how to mount it. I've read something online about using stretcher bars... but... what works best?

I don't want to frame the piece, it's about 1/8" thick and it has nothing on the back. We have whiteboard wainscot at the office that's of similar dimensions and we use velcro on the back, to the wall, but that seems... tacky and too permanent for an art piece.

Non-destructive, secure suggestions?

I need advice on mounting an Xserve

SECONDHANDSMOTE — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:38:16 -0800

Can anyone think of a reason that would prevent me from mounting an older g4 xserve flush against a wall? I recently acquired an older Xserve (g4 1.33ghz, Gigabit ethernet, 2tb hd and fw 800 for add on storage) that I want to put to use as a time machine backup station, media server and perhaps seedbox. The problem is, I don't have the space to set up a rack for it in my apartment. What I would really like to do is mount the xserve flush against a wall (with spacers perhaps to aid airflow) and then doing something interesting with the top cover (like drilling a few thousand pinholes and installing LEDs inside the case) to art it up a bit.

Can anyone think of a reason that I should not do this? Assuming I can find solid studs to build the mounting hardware on, I can't. Any other advice welcome, and if you've seen something similar I'd love a link.

Mountaing a webcam in a window

chef_boyardee — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:01:56 -0800

I need to mount a webcam so that it looks out a window... unfortunately this is not as easy as it sounds. Creative ideas? Unfortunately as you can see most webcams are designed to be placed on a flat surface and not mounted at a window. Unfortunately you can't necessarily just set the webcam on the windowsill as most windows (like mine) have a screen at the bottom that severely obscures the view. So I have to mount the webcam halfway up the window where the clear pane is.

The only decent thing I've found is to stick the webcam into an electrical box, padded with wadded paper, and jam the stud tab into the window sash crack. Unfortunately you can't reach inside to make adjustments and it's very awkward.

Yes, I do know I can remove the window screen, but this is new construction and I don't want to start tearing out the windows; we might have to use the screened window sometimes. It also doesn't solve the issue of the webcam's factory mount having only a limited range of motion.

Any ideas here on how to do this better? Has anyone been in this predicament? Improvisation is fine.

What kind of glue do I need?

szechuan — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:00:02 -0800

How can I glue a photo behind perspex? As a light-weight (for posting overseas) Christmas gift, I am considering copying an idea I have seen in stores where a photo is "mounted" behind perspex. There is no backing to the picture (i.e. nothing to sandwich the photo between), so an adhesive must have been used.

What would work to glue a picture to perspex without the picture being ruined by the glue? Or do I really need to seal it to the perspex with some sort of backing sheet?

What kind of screws are used in LCD mounting kits?

heresiarch — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:57:52 -0800

What kind of screws are used in LCD mounting kits? I'm trying to mount a pair of LCD monitors as part of a demo of some work my group did before I got here. In the process of moving the demo around, the mounting screws got lost. I don't want to have to buy new mounting kits just for these screws, but I haven't been able to turn up a precise specification for the screws anywhere. The parts lists for mounting kits tend to just say "hardware," which isn't particularly helpful, and the monitor manuals avoid providing a precise specification either.

This may just be a question of my weak google-fu, but I'm hoping someone out there has figured this out before and can point me in the right direction.

Mounting a paperback book in a shadow box frame?

de void — Thu, 25 May 2006 09:37:33 -0800

How can I mount a paperback book in a shadow box frame so that the book doesn't sag? I've got a large paperback book that I'd like to mount in a shadow box type picture frame. The shadow box is slightly bigger than the book with ~ 5/8" border between the frame inside edges and the book outside edges all the way around. The frame is deep enough that the front of the book does not touch the front of the glass if it is set on the frame back.

I don't want any matting as I'd like the spine of the book to be visible. I'd also prefer to avoid doing anything permanent to the book that would preclude removing it from the frame sometime in the future and reading it (like gluing the pages together). However, it's more important to me to have the book hanging on the wall than to preserve its readibility. It's not a rare book so the value is not a concern.

Between a TV, a wall and a hard place

rileyray3000 — Tue, 02 May 2006 14:01:00 -0800

Turns out my dream of mounting my soon to be bought LCD TV into the wall is a no go, as the wall is directly over my fireplace and apparently THAT will cause damage to the cables. So I'm looking for the tallest thinnest credenza possible to mount it on. I'd build it myself, but a history of collapsed childhood treehouses seems to argue against that. Any ideas?

projector project?

mwhybark — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:08:39 -0800

Pursuant to the valuable surround sound system information found here and here, what options do I have with regard to my projector? [+] I dumpstered a brand-new InFocus projector a while ago and have recently begun to think about how to build a semi-permanent screening area. The projector has great brightness and video quality but does not incorporate some of the home-theater features seen on newer models, such as masking the non-signal areas from the projection, keystoning adjustment, and fan noise dampening.

Ideally, I'd like to mount it to the ceiling and wrap it in a noise-dampening box, venting the heat probably into my attic. Do I have to roll my own, or are there systems out there to do this?

Finally, I don't need a receiver or DVD playback system; I do need speakers. Should I even bother with fancy options such as flat-panel or Bose cubes? Additionally, what's the deal with the hype around Bose Acoustimass systems?

Thanks very much for your nerdly expertise!

You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much disk space...

AmbroseChapel — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:30:23 -0800

You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much disk space... I'm using a dual-G4 desktop (Panther) with a 28GB hard disk.

You won't be surprised to hear that I'm running out of space.

So I got a chance to improve the situation when another mac gave up the ghost completely. I cannibalised two 9GB SCSI drives from it, installed them, and I've got another 18GB ... what should I do with it?

Obviously I should put files on it, but, which ones.? I'm pretty much used to the OS X "Documents", "Applications", "Library" etc setup. Should I just use one of the disks as my Documents folder?

I'd put my iTunes Music folder on one, but that folder's already over 10GB and climbing. And it probably wouldn't be sensible to put Applications or Library on it.

My problem is of course that I haven't got an extra 18GB, I've got an extra disk of 9GB and another extra disk of 9GB. Combine the two into a RAID maybe? Fiddle with mounting options so that one of the disks appears to be /Applications when it's really not? Do something truly scary and try to combine all three physical disks somehow?

Supplementary question -- this is all reminding me of the OS 9 days when people used to have their pet schemes for partitioned/multiple disks. People would have the OS on one, apps on another and documents on a third or whatever. Does that kind of thing make any sense in the era of OS X?

mounting photographs

garethspor — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:19:00 -0800

Question about mounting large(ish) photographs professionally. I'm having some digital artworks printed out as photographs. I'm starting with 8" by 10"s and will move up to 20" by 30". I would like to find someplace to send them to be mounted professionally in the ways in which I've seen photographs mounted at galleries and such, i.e. mounted on aluminum sheets or behind plexiglass. Anyone have any suggestions?

How do I mount surge protectors to the wall?

Colloquial Collision — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:44:59 -0800

How do I mount surge protectors (surge strips) to a newly painted wall so the surge protectors are flush and appear professionally mounted? In a previous Ask.Mefi thread, I asked other Mefite's opinions on outstanding bedroom colors. The bedroom is currently being painted, but I would then like to install surge protectors for all the major appliances in the room to save money on the electric bill. (The colors of the bedroom are Behr "Myth" and "Reflecting Pool," in case you were curious.)

The Grandparents of a good friend use a similar eletricity saving setup in their home and have saved a bunch of money on their electric bill by switching to surge protectors.

Ticket Stub Posterizing

loquax — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:34:24 -0800

I want to make a poster of all of my old ticket stubs. Anyone ever done this before? Anyone have any tips? Google doesn't seem to help, although I'd have a lot of trouble believing that I'm the first person looking to do this. I'm mostly thinking about doing that board mounting thing, but I have no idea what to do with all the individual stubs. I don't think that process will accomodate them. Should I scan and print them? Laminate them first then mount them? Glue them to a poster? I'm very unartistic and can't think of anything, although I have a feeling there's an easy and attrative way to do this. Thanks!

Question number 14183

OpinioNate — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:00:17 -0800

HardwareFilter: I recently moved into a new apartment and would like to hang shelves, pictures and paintings. Unfortunately the walls are all stone (cinder block w/ a small bit of plaster on top). How can I hang these things without putting tons of holes in this rock?

Question number 11969

scarabic — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:35:34 -0800

Let's say you had a wooden box you wanted to turn into a PC case. Where would you buy a metal 5.25" bay assembly? I'm talking about a U-shaped piece of flat metal that will screw onto the wood box wherein a couple of drives can be mounted. There's just way too much noise in Google on this one. Thanks!