Mounting a bracket on a brick wall

[micky]

Unless the bracket is made of kryptonite, you can probably drill through it.

[micky]

It depends on whether the universe is hyperbolic or not. Or at least whether your house is.

[micky]

I love it when Amazon gives the dimensions of the box, but not the item.

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[trader_4]

I would agree that drilling the mortar would be the easier solution. But I have to disagree with those that say you can't drill through bricks. I did it a few years back to add a bath fan. It required making an opening in the brick wall to fit the exhaust pipe, ie about a 3.5 or larger hole. I drilled holes all around the perimeter, then knocked the pieces out. I didn't even have a hammer drill, just a regular one with a masonry bit. It wasn't all that hard. Bricks may vary, but these were not that tough.

[Sherlock.Homes]

That's good to know. Wife's health crisis delayed the project for a while, sorry to say. The bracket that CRNG located for me arrived and the camera fits exactly (the mount even came with SS bolts and nuts for the camera arm - a real bonus!) but the two of the four holes for the walls do not line up with the mortar.

I will thus be drilling two holes that will align with the mortar since that seems to be the easiest course of action. When I get the time, I will experiment with brick drilling since I have a hammer drill (or so the label says) and a set of HF masonary bits. There may come a time when that's the only solution. Thanks for the input.

SH

[Sherlock.Homes]

While this particular item came from Ebay I agree that Amazon is not the best when it comes to detailed descriptions or useful photographs. For that reason, I now scan through all the comments/reviews when buying something where dimensions are critical.

I've had more than one occasion where they gave the unit measurements - a microwave that had to fit in a specific opening - and they were wrong. Even though I sent them a note (as did others, as of today they are STILL listing the wrong size - way too big). To their credit they took it back and paid the return shipping but wouldn't it make more business sense to just correct the listing?

Latest peeve - looking for an HD media player. You'd be surprised at how many items have a half a dozen pictures or more - top view, side view, photo of the shipping box but NOTHING showing the keys on the remote. The one that did have a good closeup photo showed the keys labeled in Chinese!!!!

SH

[Sherlock.Homes]

accordingly.

Appears to be made out of cast rodinium - The hardest substance known to Federation science.

I am looking for used Romulan Warbird on Ebay to make it drillable. :-)

SH