I'm looking for a flat panel wall mount (tilting not necessary) that doesn't use the bottom release method to secure the panel to the bracket (like Sanus and Chief NOW employ).

Chief and Sanus used to use a lever near the top rail clasp that you had to flip 180 degrees (appx) and that would lock it onto the rail and prohibit it from being able to be removed. I'd like to find a wall mount with a similar concept.

Sunbrite 46" panel.

It will be mounted to the ceiling of a gazebo that is at an appx 45 degree angle. I don't trust the present bottom clasp that Sanus has on this particular installation.

Anyone have any suggestions before I start looking into it? Omnimount? Peerless? Snap?

Why not use the Sunbrite mount? I hung two in a gazebo on their pole mounts and they where stout.

Or are you trying to install it flat to the 45° ceiling?

You need to find a Sanus VMPL250. It has a metal rail that slides into the bottom of the bracket horizontally after the TV is hung on it that you can put a padlock on if you want to secure the TV on it.

The Sanus mounts with the 180 deg cam locks are the LT25B which are still current I believe.

@ Lowhz: The LT25B is one of my favorite wall mounts (when I don't need a super low profile). But they do have the handle lever release at the bottom (where it bites on to the bottom of the bottom rail). I don't trust that in this particular installation. I'll look at the VMPL250

@ Justin: Yes. They want it flat and hugging to the 45 degree ceiling and I do too.

This area gets very, very, very, very windy and I fear the wind could get behind the panel and push it off.

I see, will this work for you?

[Link: omnimount.com]

They also have the OC175F that is non-tilting

Yes that will work and it looks like Fred has them.

Just asking?

Does the mount and TV spec state being able to mount to a slanted surface(45 degrees)? As opposed to a vertical and plum surface?

Most mounts only tilt 15 degrees or so.

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I'm unsure the answer to your specific question, but after looking at the installation manual, it is clear it will work in my application.

First, it is not really a 45 degree, more like 30 degrees. Second, I don't need it to tilt, as the tilt is built into the hipped ceiling (duh).

If you look at the installation manual, it is a slot rail, not a bar rail which has less slop. And the "keeper" is a bar that goes across the top (and actually the bottom) that screws in. Ain't no way that panel is coming down without removing that top keeper bar. Unless the whole gazebo comes down, or the entire assembly rips out of the studs.

That is the tilt of the mount...has nothing to with mounting position

Does an articulating mount have a different mounting requirment than a static flat mount?

Dose physics come into play? Sheer down verses pull out?

[Link: snapav.com]

This has the lok tight tabs you were talking about. Not sure how much I would trust it hanging on a ceiling though.....