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Title: Monitor has no frame, can I use wood?
Post by: thehammer12 on October 23, 2013, 07:29:29 pm

I got a hanatrex polo monitor with chassis but no frame, was gonna use some angle iron or metal bars from home depot and rig a solid one up. But I saw another user make a frame out of wood.

Is there any harm in using wood?

Title: Re: Re: Monitor has no frame, can I use wood?
Post by: Rick on October 23, 2013, 10:37:30 pm

Quote from: thehammer12 on October 23, 2013, 07:29:29 pm

Is there any harm in using wood?

As long as you don't have any metal screws in the wood touching the metal on the monitor, you shouldn't have any issues.

Title: Re: Monitor has no frame, can I use wood?
Post by: apfelanni on October 27, 2013, 05:14:03 am

the problem with wood comes with the size of the tubes .  a 29 or 33 inch tube + chassis + frame will be around 30 kg weight , so everything has to be done very solid . from electrical point of view there isnt a prob with wood. all radios , tvs from the sixties
are using a wooden cases  . a metal mounting frame is sturdy and build in no time . u only have to be careful with the isolation .