Review on Walts TV Full 📺 Motion Mount for 43-90 inch TVs by Sarah Foreman

UPDATE August 18, 2021: The manufacturer saw my review and offered to fix it. I replied and told them I would look at the second one to see if it was any better. The manufacturer informed me that they had reduced the price and quickly sent me a second mount. Right now it's priced at $250, which is a lot more reasonable and certainly reasonable for a heavy-duty mount used on a TV that costs around $2000 or more. The first 4 pictures here are from my original review and do not show the location of the defect up close. So I've attached 5 new photos to show it up close and it turns out this second mount still has a defect but it's not as bad as the first. To test this new one, I placed the mount on a perfectly flat tiled floor and confirmed that the back of the mount (which mounts to the wall) was indeed perfectly flat. You can see this in the wide shot with a spirit level on the large rectangular back of the mount. This is the first picture with the level and the fifth overall. In the 2nd picture you can see much closer that the central bubble on the spirit level is read completely evenly. So I have the first bracket on the wall, like in a perfectly flat. I leave the mount intact and then adjust the level vertically at the pivot as shown in the 3rd level image (7th overall). In the last two pictures you can see a closer view and then a very close view of the bubble level and reading bubble. The spirit level is flush with the bracket and you can clearly see the bubble indicating a significant deviation from the spirit level. Like I said, this level is NOT as bad as the first one I got. This much smaller error can be corrected using the adjustment mechanism shown on the attached instruction page. When first installed, the line on the indicator was almost in the middle of the bubble (!), which, from the vertical, meant STRONG. The reading on this 2nd bracket was the same when the level was adjusted on the other side. (The metal arms are the same width.) Placing the plane against the round pivot gave the same picture. As you can see from the photos, the level is a high precision Craftsman model made in the USA. Due to the price reduction and the manufacturer's willingness to provide replacements quickly, I have corrected my rating from 1 star to 3 stars. Given that I received one with a terrible defect and another with the same but lesser defect, I don't see a way to exceed that level. I assume that this defect will be found in many of these mounts. I will now recommend this mount with caution. Before Revain's 30 day return period is up and before you even begin installation, do the same test I did, mounting it on a level floor. Make sure the pivot is close enough to vertical by using a quality step that's at least a foot long. If it doesn't, you can return the mount for a refund or replacement. We hope that the manufacturer will do quality control to solve this problem. One final note: the cardboard shown in the new pictures holding the front of the mount is in the box that the mount comes in. the ideal height to keep the bracket level from the wall to the side of the TV, although that's not really necessary for the test. FIRST REVIEW: This TV mount is a much better design than the one it replaces. As you can see in the third picture looking at the mounting screws, the wall frame is much wider than 16" so you can slide it left or right on walls with 16" stud spacing to center the TV as needed. It can also work on low-budget walls where the builder used a 24-inch center post spacing to save a few bucks, but then you lose the flexibility to move left-to-right. This makes a big difference depending on where your studs are and not where you want to mount the TV. With a mount that's just over 16 inches wide and a stud right on the right center line, you're going to have trouble with most mounts. With a 16" lug spacing, if you have a 24" lug spacing you will need to do some demolition before you can add lugs. In the second picture you can see that I folded 3 dumbbells to test the strength. It's a 30-pound neoprene at the bottom for some traction, then two 45-pound cast irons for a total of 120 pounds. With such a weight, the mount wasn't even embarrassed. Of course the weight wasn't quite at the end like a TV and it's not the full 150lbs that they claim the mount will hold up, but there's no way of attaching a 150lb TV to do a full test perform if my 65 inch LCD - the display weighs about 50 pounds. I think if you have a 150lb TV and want to fully extend the mount as shown in the dumbbell picture, you'd better make sure your wall studs are solid. I don't think the mount will fail at the very end at 150lbs either. The bracket/frame that attaches to the back of the TV is also VERY flexible to accommodate different hole patterns on the back of any TV you want. assemble. If the TV is under 43 inches or over 90 inches, I'm not sure how you can't find holes and slots that don't fit this mount. The forward lean control is also much stronger than the mount it replaces. You can see the two knobs in the first picture, and this is how you tighten the two screws that control the forward tilt from perfect vertical to down tilt just a little. (I doubt there are many scenarios where one would want to tilt the top of the TV away from vertical, but I think it's possible to some extent.) So why a star? Right now it's a $400 mount, which is VERY expensive. For this price you expect strict quality control and very little, if any, manufacturing defects. This does not apply to the mount I received. The mount was made in China, so the Walts get what they paid for, so to speak. Comes with a perfectly flat wall frame to match the high quality 2ft Craftsman level (not the small rough toy level that came in the box). which reads differently on the magnetic side than on the non-magnetic side), the two arms that attach to the wall frame are also perfectly straight at the top and bottom where they attach to the wall frame. At the other end, where they meet the pivot/shaft, they are at least 5/16" from vertical if they are less than 12" long. It could be 3/8 inch and that location is only a foot away from us and it is very important that this point is correct. Since it's far away, I ended up dialing in maximum correction for tilt distortion (when the TV isn't oriented left to right) and it still wasn't enough. In the last two pictures I have inserted the last two pages of the manual. Here you can clearly see the "inner" brackets, which are further apart and connect to the wall frame, and the two "outer" brackets, which are very close together and connect to the TV mount. The point where the two sets of levers meet has an internal vertical shaft, or the levers are machined in a hidden location to form a vertical shaft*. This is the shaft that is very off vertical and therefore means that the level control shown at the bottom of the last page works fine but is said not to have enough range to get the TV level. What I ended up doing is definitely not recommended. I firmly gripped the corners of the TV when it was fully in place and "twisted" it against the slant of the defect. Something or some of the parts on the ends of the outer arms and TV mount were slightly bent and then I was able to fix what was misaligned. That risky solution of using your TV as a bargaining chip you never have to do with a $400 mount. Fix this fatal error and I get 4 stars. Despite all the strength and flexibility, $400 is way too much for a TV mount like this. For $300 or less, it gets 5 stars if it has no flaws. *You can see the vertical shaft/pivot point between the two sets of arms very clearly in the last picture of the listing. The last picture shows it at least for now.