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so here's the deal I've got a new place got a new TV and this time gonna do it right I'm gonna wall mount my television instead of having it sitting on a you know console so I bought this one on Amazon it's the cheetah flush tilt wall mount $30 rave reviews it sounds like a good deal I've got the wall knob that's gonna go on the wall and then I've got the brackets if you're gonna go on the back of my TV and attach to the mount alright so the first thing I got to do is find the studs in my wall I hope they exist to locate them I'm going to use the stud finder this is a magnetic stud finder which is convenient because it's no batteries to replace studs are typically around 16 to 24 inches apart all right line them up with the stud marks I made on the wall looks pretty good now we're attaching the right size drill bit for our screws here goes now we're going to put the frame up on the wall and use the bolts to actually get that thing into the studs hopefully nice and secure so now I've got all my bolts in is looking pretty good I'm double-checking against that level the bubbles right in the center all right now this thing's rated to hold 165 pounds that means I should be confident enough to give this thing a tug I feel like it's not going to come right out of the wall now for the next step we're gonna want to put the braces on the back of the TV before we do that though I'm gonna need to take the band off the bottom here give it a new life as a wall-mounted TV you're free so here are the two braces here where they're gonna go the main thing you want to be able to do is be able to conceal the braces behind the TV so if you have a smaller TV and these are poking out the top you have some wiggle room here to get the right fit solid it's still solid confident so the idea is that these hooks on the back on the braces are gonna hook right over the lip and hang down from there and that can use a little security screws to really lock it into place down below time let's put this sucker up on the wall oh yeah here we go let's check it out on the back the hooks over the frame now the cool thing is that this can slide on the track so I can scoot it over if I want to get the perfect placement it's on we're almost done last thing I want make sure it's right that Center and then I'm gonna screw in the security bolts and lock it in place beautiful it's on the wall looks like an art piece all right I am considering this a success everything looks great let's play some video nice all right now the kid assembled really easily it only cost me 30 bucks and I did it all by myself Netcom for cnet.com i'm donald down now for more how to's related to your television including how to calibrate your own television go to how to cnet.com for CNN calm I'm Donald