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Universal Monitor/Tube mounting brackets - NO LONGER IN STOCK
1UP:
NO LONGER IN STOCK
These have been out of stock for over a year, but I get requests occasionally, so I thought I'd update this post to avoid confusion. Sorry folks.
Ken Layton:
Interesting, but from what it looks like is that you screw the brackets to the cabinet wall with some sheet metal screws? If so that's not enough to support the weight of a 27" tube let alone a whole 27" monitor. You'd need to drill holes in the side of the cabinet and mount with several 1/4" diameter carriage bolts IMO.
1UP:
Wood screws, actually.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on March 09, 2005, 11:04:55 am ---Interesting, but from what it looks like is that you screw the brackets to the cabinet wall with some sheet metal screws? If so that's not enough to support the weight of a 27" tube let alone a whole 27" monitor. You'd need to drill holes in the side of the cabinet and mount with several 1/4" diameter carriage bolts IMO.
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The only force you'd need to be concerned with is "shear", and with that many screws, assuming the sides of the cabinet are immobile, the force required to break it loose would be tremendous.
I suspended a 27" tube just by L-brackets and some heavy duty wire ties. I wouldn't want to move it around too much like that, but the monitor never budged in the 2 years it was being used, and that arrangement was laughable compared to these! :) .
RandyT
nostrebor:
My monitor support uses the same theory, just fabricated in wood rather than steel. By usind a fairly large footprint, and spreading several connection points out over that large area, you effectively reduce the pull-out forces of the screws down to a level that will work with a large load. Like RandyT said, the only considerable forces are shearing of the screw shanks. To make it work with wood, i rabbeted out a slot that heavy duty steel L-brackets could drop into. So the monitor hooks to the L-bracket, which is trapped between the cab side and the wood monitor support, thus requiring the bracket to peel the support off the cab side.
I used this same principal in my cab to prevent having any hardware exposed on the sides of the cabinet. The one advantage that I have is that the wood mounting bracket is also glued to the wood side of the cabinet. In a nut shell... it aint goin no-where!
Looks like a great solution to me!