I recently purchased a Sony Bravia flat screen TV and a wall mount kit. The wall mount kit was on sale at $100 off.

The installation of the wall mount kit was pretty basic. First you install on a bracket on the wall. Then, you install a bracket on the back of the flat screen. Once this is completed, you connect the two brackets together.

Hanging the bracket on the wall was simple. But, when I went to install the bracket on the TV, I discovered that the screws that I needed were missing. Instead of providing me with 20 screws in 5 different sizes, they gave me 20 screws all the same size. And, unfortunately, it wasn’t the size that I needed.

No problem, all I needed was the screw size and then I would head to the hardware store. First, I checked owners manual but no luck. Instead, it referred me to a web site.

At the web site, it told me that I needed the M6 screw mounting system. And, if I had purchased the Sony wall mount kit from Sony, the M6 screw mounting system would have been included.  Not to be deterred, I did a search on the internet for Sony wall mount M6.

The first hit was about someone who was also trying to figure out the M6 screw mounting system. Great! I would find the answer in a matter of seconds.  But no. The web site only talked about the those looking for the M6 screw mounting system and not the size of the screw. Thus, the site was worthless for my needs.

The next approach was to head for the hardware store. Since I knew about what size screw to use, I started examining the screws in the bins.

I decided that maybe the M stood for metric and since a 6mm screw was in the estimated size range, I gave it a shot. Bingo! The M6 screw mounting system used 6mm screws.

So, for all you poor souls who are trying to find the right size screws to mount a Sony Bravia flat screen TV, you need four 6X16 MM screws.