And this may solve my problem of how to get an HDMI cable to the back tv. It appears as it the coax that runs to the back TV is in this conduit. I still have to confirm that is what this is and it isn't the backup camera. So if it is to the back TV, hopefully I can get a long HDMI cable and string it through this conduit.
Found this coil of wires behind the TV. There are two coax cables then some other cable with a large multi-pen connector on it. It had a piece of masking tape on it and written on the masking tape was "Do not use, inoperable." I'm not exactly sure what it would have been for. Maybe for the backup camera? But if so, where is the cable that works for the backup camera and how did they put in new cable without removing this cable? I'll have to figure this one out later. Anybody got any ideas what it is?
This photo is one side of the steel box that the TV was in. As you can see it is screwed into the steel frame of the RV with nine screws at the top. So with the nine screws on the other side there were 18 screws holding the TV up. National RV advertised that they have an an all steel frame and now that I can see it, it is steel. I haven't figured out how I'm going to install the new TV yet, but I think I'll keep the steel sides and make a wood frame for the new LED TV between them.
Game over, 49ers won! Went back out and got my neighbor and we got the TV out. Me and the neighbor held it, while my wife removed the screw drivers, cutting her finger in the process and yelling at me! Then we got it out of the motorhome. This TV was a MONSTER! I can't believe how heavy this thing was. I had never owned a picture tube TV this large in my house. This thing easily weighed 150 pounds. I'm expecting my MPG to go up by 10% with this thing out of the motorhome!
And on the way to the E-Waste bin:
And on the way to the E-Waste bin:
In this photo you can see the bottom of the steel box holding the TV. I've removed 4 of the six bolts and stuck screwdrivers in the hole so the TV doesn't drop out as I remove the other two. You see see in this photo the TV sticks up into the ceiling several inches. Otherwise it would just slide out. I'm guessing they installed the TV before they put the ceiling in. Now I have to drop the bottom of the steel box to get the TV out.
After this photo I removed the last two bolts and the TV is still sitting there with the screwdrivers holding it in. After the 49ers game I'm going to go out and try and get it out. One problem I see I'm going to have is I can't get to where the TV is plugged in. It's behind the cabinet on the right someplace. Once I get the TV out I'll be able to get back there, but that presents the problem of once I get the TV loose I'll have to try and hold while my helper unplugs it. I think I'm going to take the easy way out and just cut the power cord. The TV still works but I'll never use it and you can't sell these things so it's going to the e-waste bin anyway.
After this photo I removed the last two bolts and the TV is still sitting there with the screwdrivers holding it in. After the 49ers game I'm going to go out and try and get it out. One problem I see I'm going to have is I can't get to where the TV is plugged in. It's behind the cabinet on the right someplace. Once I get the TV out I'll be able to get back there, but that presents the problem of once I get the TV loose I'll have to try and hold while my helper unplugs it. I think I'm going to take the easy way out and just cut the power cord. The TV still works but I'll never use it and you can't sell these things so it's going to the e-waste bin anyway.
You can see the bolts down the side here. I was able to get the bolts out without having to dismantle anymore of the side cabinets. I did have to remove a couple of screws in the plastic trim and the sun visors so I could pull the plastic trim back far enough to reach the bolts.
There was a center plastic piece underneath the TV that had the center speaker in it. It just snapped out. This photo shows the bottom of the metal box that the TV is sitting in. It was secured with six bolts.
This is on a National Tropical. If you open the cabinet doors on either side of the TV you can see wood plugs in the frame. The one in this photo is after I drilled it out. I couldn't get it to pop out with a screw driver so I just drilled the plugs out and exposed the long wood screws underneath. There were four screws total holding front frame on from the side and there was one wood screw in the top of the front frame into the roof.
