[Shop-talk] Hanging a Cuckoo clock

[eric at megageek.com]

Randall,  I would make a nice "back plate" that was bolted to the two 
nearest studs and mount the clock to that.  Maybe something out of 3/4 
plywood that you finish with matching veneer, or a few pieces of nice oak 
planks.

This way it would be as secure as it needed to be.  I think ANY molly bolt 
in dry wall would weaken after a few years of daily vibration from winding 
it.

Moose
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
Waldo Emerson



"Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com> 
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Hey all,

Wife has a big antique cuckoo clock that she would like hung "right there"
on the drywall.  This thing must weigh 30 pounds, plus every day someone 
has
to pull on the chains to wind it up and of course we also live in an
earthquake zone.  She would really hate for it to come crashing down (it's
supposedly over 100 years old and has some really fragile gingerbread, 
stag
horns, etc.). 

If I had my druthers, I'd put a screw into a stud, but alas there is no 
stud
where she wants the clock.

I'm thinking to put a "molly" type anchor in the wall, and let it's bolt
protrude to form a hook (the back wall of the clock is about 3/8" thick),
but thought I would ask if anyone has a better suggestion.