Richard J Baker
My wife purchased a Fasttrack 32" a couple years back and asked me to install it last weekend. the unit is designed to be mounted across 3, 2x4 studs that are 16" on center. the track is 32" long, which is just right to reach from center to center of the outside 2x4's.
Unfortunately, the holes provided for mounting are 1/2" in from the end of the track, making the holes a full 1" short of the stud center, overall. This puts the mounting screws 1/2" to the side of the center of the 2x4.
Since we are driving the screws into the narrow side of the 2x4, this leaves less than 1/4" of material into which to drive the screw, if you want to catch the same 1/4" on the other end in the other stud. a solution is to drive the screws in at an angle in order to catch more material in the stud.…