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  • Advice/opinion needed: Angle Iron ceiling mount vs aircraft cable wall mount

    Doing a garage build. Looking to get some opinions: either mount the screen to the angle iron that will be bolted to the ceiling studs or mount on wall studs and hang the impact screen on the cable. I will have to be able to stow or put the screen away to park a car.

    Scenario: Screen will be just over 10ft wide. I have 9.8ft on the left side, 8.5ft on the right side ceiling (should be good enough for right handed golfer). I will need to build some support with angle irons as there is a height ~15.5" difference between the two ceilings to support either angle iron mount or aircraft cable (so aircraft cable won't sag too much)

    Angle Iron
    pro: no sagging, easy to do as I have ceiling studs marked (covered by drywall)
    con: will be harder to put away (will need to sort of roll it and secure with bungees onto the angle iron itself

    Aircraft cable
    pro: can slide the screen to one side easier
    con: aircraft line will be about 19-20ft long, there will be sagging (I can support the screen area with hooks on the ceiling to reduce sagging?)

    Attached picture (garage door opener will be replaced with wall mount/jackshaft opener)

  • #2
    Look through the home builds or DIY section. A few folks on here have done some pretty cool retractable screens that rotate upwards to allow parking. One potential downside on the cable option is wrinkles in the screen. I would guess that rolling the screen up taught would have less wrinkles if you can't just rotate the entire screen up to the ceiling.

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    • #3
      Thanks! I am okay with wrinkles if I go with aircraft cable as there will not be a perfect solution for my set up either way. I am thinking about convenience and want to make sure the set up won't suddenly break down (ie snapped hook, cable). I am going to over-engineer either route that is for sure. Might toss a coin and just roll with one. I can always change it up afterwards.

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      • #4
        pchyen Search for sportscreen setups. Rolls up and down either manually r with electric option

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Fhacker View Post
          pchyen Search for sportscreen setups. Rolls up and down either manually r with electric option
          Thanks. I already ordered the impact screen but will check.

          Angle iron is currently winning but still undecided. Might set up both and then pick one.

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          • #6
            Well apparently angle iron is not winning. Received the impact screen last night and it wasn't as heavy as I thought. Going to go with aircraft cable and will mount a few hooks on the ceiling near each end of the screen to help with sagging. I was told 35lb for impact screen (I think the rep was confused) but it is probably impact screen+EMT or angle iron. I think impact screen was only about 5lb or less.

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