Wallbox mounting questions

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So I bought a Rowe Eagle Star Juke Box this weekend from a member on here. (Pictures coming soon.) It came with a cross style wall bracket with 25 holes in it in which you can screw it to a wall. Now I live in an older style farm house and the ways are drywall and pretty hollow. How the heck do I mount this thing in which it doesn't rip down my wall? I swear the jukebox weighs 350 lbs without the cds or title mechanism. Not sure why they made it so heavy if it's supposed to mount on the wall. Even with two people lifting we could only barely get it off the ground to the position where the wall bracket is before we had to set it down. I am afraid if I mount it on the wall its going to just pull right out. I got the 2 book manual for it and nowhere in there does it detail how to mount it on the wall. I am afraid if it comes off the wall, it will kill someone or something. I just can't image any wall supporting this thing.
 
It's been a long time since I mounted one of those... but you need to get at least four lag bolts in two studs. It is a beast of a jukebox. You can lighten it for hanging. Pull the mech out, title pages, even the dbv. But, again it's been so long since I installed one of those and I only ever installed one when they first came out with them. If you don't feel comfortable with that or you can only hit one stud you can always cut a 3/4" piece of plywood and mount that on the wall and then mount the wall bracket to that. I hung a Berkley on a stone wall one time and used a piece of plywood to do it. I had to chip some stone here and there to get it to lay flat. But I just layed the juke box on the plywood and traced it with a pencil and cut it.
 
Do you remember what size and length lag bolts you used? The bracket for the Eagle Looks like a cross or a T. It has about 25 holes in it for the screws to go through however the holes are not very large. I have drywall walls and when I screwed the bracket into the wall I felt over half of the screws hits something hard like a stud or something. I tried figuring out where and how the studs run but it doesn't seem to make sense. Seems like they are running horizontal instead of vertical? I have an old house built in 1912. I am kinda worried to hang it cause I don't want it to fall off but I hate having to tip it back to get the power and volume controls.
 
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For a drywall install I use 1/4" x 2" lag bolts. If you buy a new juke box they send 1/4" x 1.5" lag bolts. But I like to make sure I go into the wood over an inch as one inch is the minimum. I also pre-drill piliot holes for them. It will make them easier to turn in and will help prevents splitting the wood stud. If you got enough drywall screws to bite it should be fine. But, if not drywall screws are really brittle and I wouldn't trust them to hold that kind of weight. Four lag bolts will hold it. They have all those holes in the so you can adjust it to the studs. Some of those old houses and buildings can be hard to hit two studs in them. Best to break out a stud finder and see what you are dealing with.
 
.... another thing. You could always plug your juke box into a power strip. Then you could just use the power strip to turn it on and off if you don't want to mount it on the wall. You can also get an external volume control. That would end the leaning it back problem as well.
 
Thanks for your help, I ended up getting a stud finder and some lag bolts and I finally got it mounted on the wall. It was a hard and scary experience but it is up there and seems to be solid. Thanks again.
 
When we had this model on our route back in the day, we always used three people to install it. First we would locate the bracket on the wall and drill several 3/16" pilot holes for the lag screws. Then we used a 7/16" ratchet to tighten the bolts real good. Now came the fun part. Two guys would pick up the jukebox to hang it while the third guy guided it onto the bracket and made sure all the wiring was cleared. Once it was on the bracket then the third guy tightened all the other bolts. Then the two "lifter" guys would go over to the bar for a well earned drink while the third guy connected all the wiring.
 
Well my wife helped me lift it. Lol, that's why I said it was a hard and scary experience. We got it up to where the bracket was caught on the back of the jukebox. I got underneath and lifted it up and over so it was than sitting on the bracket correctly. Two days later and I am still hurting from it. We have bruises on our legs from resting it on our legs. I wonder how much this thing weighs. We did take the amp and bill validator out to lighten it somewhat. The amp feels like its 50 lbs by itself. Here is a video of it mounted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh5Nn1tlDs8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 
I always took the cd mechanism out and the amplifier to lighten it up for hanging.

The whole jukebox weighs about 210 pounds. Contrast that model with the Rowe "Berkeley" wall mount juke at only 125 pounds!
 
Wow, it is a beast of a juke box. It is one of the biggest wall mount juke boxes that I have ever seen. I was looking at an NSM that had diamond or jewels on it and this one is almost twice as big.
 
Well my wife helped me lift it. Lol, that's why I said it was a hard and scary experience. We got it up to where the bracket was caught on the back of the jukebox. I got underneath and lifted it up and over so it was than sitting on the bracket correctly. Two days later and I am still hurting from it. We have bruises on our legs from resting it on our legs. I wonder how much this thing weighs. We did take the amp and bill validator out to lighten it somewhat. The amp feels like its 50 lbs by itself. Here is a video of it mounted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh5Nn1tlDs8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

LOL! Yes those things are quite the beast! When we were mounting one I made the comment that it would have just been easier to lag a CD-100 to the wall. They came out with the Storms after that which are MUCH easier to mount.
 
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