I've got an idea. It doesn't happen very often, so I'll pass it along.

Get a friend you trust, get subject TV up to the corner of the stairs, tell friend to move, let tv crash down stairs, (increase tv damage, if necessary), claim on home owners insurance, buy new flatscreen with insurance check.




Oh man, I should charge for advice like this.


Dave

 

Have you been talking to my wife again???? Those sound like her exact words.

Actually, watching TV has very little to do with getting it upstairs. First, the cost of the set is such that it is a bargain and I can't give up a bargain without a fight. Second, I only watch TV seriously (ie Big Screen) in the month of July for the Tour de France. Well, maybe a little superbowl, and once in awhile some golf and racin'. Third, the Playstation and Xbox look and play great on the bigger screen. Four, did I mention the damn thing was soooo cheap.


SDG,
Hummmm, insurance settlement...... now that's an idea!!!!!

 

Okay, here's the proof, it got moved, not sold. We began taking it apart, then realized it was all screwed and GLUED. The particle board would just tear and crumble if we tried to take it apart. Then someone showed up with a circular saw, and a jigsaw...... below is the progress:

Front and back off, picture is the inside, you can see the tubes (guns) on the left lower.


Notice the small L brackets we added on the far side. Each side had those, we cut and removed, then replaced and cut further. Always keeping 5 of the brackets screwed into the upper and lower parts.

 

Here's the bottom:



Here's the top with mirror intact:



Here it is an hour later, all back together and working fine upstairs:

 

Skill saw???

Jig Saw???

And you diciede to cut the TV?

You shoud sell your truck and get a minivan.
Real men would have tore the crap out of the house to keep the TV intact and unharmed. :shakes head in disbelief: What's this world coming to when a mans Big Screen TV is no longer sacred and is put in danger or sacraficed over a less important house.

J/K with you.

Glad to see it's up there and over!
Even though I was hoping for a more exciting more dramatic saga with the same ending. LOL

 

The manufacturer is an idiot for gluing the case together. I had exactly the same issue with my 61" Sony big screen. The top case that holds the mirror was easily removed and one wiring harness was unplugged. One seperated it was pretty simple to move up the stairs. All screws, no glue. I think you did good sawing it apart. The answer to every performance problem is a bigger hammer. (or saw)

 

LMAO! What a great thread.

 

Other people's stupidity is always funny chit!

Nice thing is, now I have a 60 inch that can be very portable if it has to be moved.

I tend to agree with you DBD. It really would have been simple if there wasn't blue glue in each joint. I will admit, the glue made it one stable TV frame, even after cutting it in half.

Trade the truck for a mini-van.... dammmmmn! that's cold!

 

OMG... I cannot believe you CUT the TV... now I've seen it all...

You must have an older model that I do... no cutting involved... wow.

Nice work.

 

I can rest in peace now that the D-man has recognized my stupidity!

Hey, I can't complain it works great, I didn't even have to re-calibrate the tubes/guns whatever they're called.

 

I am impressed by the use of portable saws to solve the dilemma. I would have been extremely impressed if the use of a blow torch would have been involved…