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Nice stand, I give you bonus points for the industrial look ;)

Not so much as industrial as Neanderthal!

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Dipping bags at Mach1.9

Nah, no steel in that era.

Yeah but lots of wood, like in the base ;)

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Is the rest of the computer made out of wood as well? :)

I'm up and running, it's been over a year since I last did a complete rebuild on this computer so with a fresh install of XP, service packs, drivers, etc, I'm running at 5040x1050 :) I definitely will do something about a stand, I don't like how the side monitors feel like they're pointing towards the floor (they're straight up and down so the bezels don't V apart towards the top.)

One of my three monitors has a bad pixel, so back to Costco for a replacement for that one...

I have a friend who does custom car work and has lots of nifty metalworking tools... here's the very rough start of the stand we're designing. The standoffs are default at 1" but can be whatever size ends up lining things up correctly (that's the slop in the design. ;) ) The main support will probably be 2" OD square aluminum tube bent or cut/welded to the right shape.

Awesome! Can you send me one to NZ? ;)

I am a dodgy DIYer, I really wish I had the skills to make something that looked good as well as being functional- my PC is in the lounge!

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Dipping bags at Mach1.9

Awesome! Can you send me one to NZ? ;)

I am a dodgy DIYer, I really wish I had the skills to make something that looked good as well as being functional- my PC is in the lounge!

I'll post pics and as much technical detail as I can, perhaps you can find someone local to do the cutting/bending/welding part... :) We're still talking about the tilt - it will not swivel, not necessary IMHO.

I ordered a piece once for my truck, for a custom bumper/winch mount, from Australia. The part was about $75, shipping cost me about $125. :)

turned out that two of my three new monitors had bad pixels (DPT is a useful little utility, isn't it?) so back to Costco... took a copy of DPT on a CD as well. They let me go through monitors until I found two more that didn't have bad pixels... total of 8 monitors, 5 with bad pixels. Not very promising for quality control... is it really that common?

I left the CD with DPT there for one of the employees. He wants to test all the demo display units. :)