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shardian:
This setup is simple. Trust me, I initially thought of what Chad is talking about - permanently mounting poles or something. My wife stepped in with the K.I.S.S. philosophy to save the day.

It took me like half an hour to measure and cut out the frame. Screen construction took around 4 hours spread over 3 nights which includes measuring, marking, cutting, and sewing.

shardian:
And on that note:
Make a PVC frame for your screen chad. Worried about wind? Throw something heavy over the feet of the stand. You're lucky you all have flat land to deal with. My screen is down the hill from my house - metal posts is the only way I can put mine up.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 09, 2009, 09:52:57 am ---Sure, guys, sure, but I'm simply urging you to aim for simplicity so you can actually enjoy yourselves.  Making it so complex will make it so much work to set it up that you'll avoid doing it and then we'll see your setup on B/S/T next year.

--- End quote ---


Well that's the point of making the setup easy.  By the end of last year I wasn't interested in doing it anymore because of how long it took.  I don't mind one time work, though, so I built the cart.  I figure if I set up that mount I described, and we stop using it, my wife will use it to hang plants or something.  My family really enjoys the movies so it's worth the effort as long as I keep it where I don't hate the process.

The 4x4 posts aren't a permanent thing, anyway.  All you have to do is dig a post hole and keep the thing plumb.  I don't think I need a full frame but pipes at the top and bottom would be necessary to keep it spread.  I don't get much wind in my yard.  It's a small area enclosed by 12' bushes, a house, a 12' fence, and several trees.

Vanguard:
I made an outdoor screen out of the extruded aluminum channel used to build pool enclosures.

I got my cloth from a company called Dazian who has a reflective stretchy fabric for projection screens.

http://www.dazian.com/cgi-bin/page.pl?action=color_family

The aluminum channel has a groove in it that you push a rubber spline into that holds the fabric in place.  Since the fabric is stretchy, I was able to pull the fabric while attaching with the spline.  The screen came out perfectly smooth with no wrinkles. 

I put some 4x4 post in the ground in the backyard and clamp the screen to them when we have a movie.  When I'm done, I just slide the screen into my garage along one wall.

The screen is about 11'x6' in size.  I also built a stand that holds the laptop and AV equipment that I just roll out to the yard and were read to go.  I have outdoor speakers in the yard so I just wheel my AV rig up to the projection spot and I hook into my outdoor speakers via a box I put in the ground.

Setup and teardown takes no more than a few minutes.

Unfortunately we've had so much rain this summer that we haven't had 1 showing yet.

ChadTower:

Nice!  I'm thinking something I can roll up for easier storage works better for me.  For now the 96" actual screen is definitely good enough, though.

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