Stripped monitors for thin bezel

[Gunja]

I have three AOC 619fh 26" monitors and i decided to dismantle the casing so that i get thin bezel for triple screen gaming.
People in another thread said that they would like to see some photos.
I regret that i didnt take photos or a video while i was actually in the process of dismantling.
Now i can only show the aftermath.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2LRhE1ACsQ <- video

[KryptoNyte]

Now THAT is what Willis was talkinabout.

Good stuff, Gunja.

[ChainSOV]

now thats what I call immersion!
looking at your last screeny for a moment I was wondering if you had the rollcage installed infront of your screens :doh

will try that someday on my screens, although I dont want to remove the casing completely, just cut off/file off the accordings parts.

[Gunja]

thanks guys :)
What i would like to see is if someone has done it to Dell with touch sensor osd buttons.
I must admit i wouldnt do it on that kind of monitor without first knowing how to go about those buttons.

@ ChainSOV
I thought about doing what you said but went against it because this way i can put them back as they were.
It would look better your way though.

[CrackerJackMack]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2LRhE1ACsQ <- video

Is it just me, or was that entire video (including the sweater) 70's themed?

[Gunja]

It could be that certain colours are associated with a certain era.
Beige sweater and warm white (yellowish) light bulb in that room (not bright enough for camera to capture true colours) which gives the picture a kind of washed out tone.
It might look like it was filmed in the 70's because of the way i dressed.
As seen, i have a poor taste for fashion but it's not deliberately 70's themed if that's what you ask.

[Paradigm Shifter]

Awesome work. Props. 8)

[doublejj0305]

You motivated me to do this to my U2410's and 2405wpf. Very simple to do and it cuts out trims it down about ~1/4" on each monitor. I would like to make a mold of some sort of mold to make the appearance that it is all one unit. Any ideas?

If anyone is curious about the U2410's:

1)Take the front bezel off using gentle force. Once you get around the power putton area their are two connectors, take some needle nose plyers and release the clips.
2)pull the screen out of the box (go around to each corner and pull) Eventially it will come loose, just take your time.
3) once out unscrew the mini screw that holds the power button board in. Comes out easy
4) for the remaining 5 sensor buttons... This is the most delicate part. take a flat head and pry closes to where the power button was. This strip is taped down and takes some very gentle force.

5) Once your done with that the screen is ready to go back on the stand. I put the sensor buttons in some clear heatshrink for the time being just to protect the stickiness of it. It works well as long with the power button. There is no way to mount them so I just put them behind the screen out of site.

At this point everything can be put in the original case with no problems and no way to tell that I dismantled it.

I plan on using this is portrait mode which is perfect for this. The problem with doing this in landscape is there are 4 little tabs on the left and right parts of the U2410's that will make it difficult to butt them against each other. You could hack these off with a dremel but then you would be altering the screen and will probably void your warranty.

Also I'm using a third part stand so I don't know if it will fit back on the original stand. I assume it wont.

[MikeMcMasters]

What a simple solution to this problem. This might influence the next set of monitors I consider for purchase. Might be able to save some money looking at wider bezel monitors and avoiding the lack of selection in "thin" bezel monitors out there.
Thanks for sharing!

[bahnzii]

You motivated me to do this to my U2410's and 2405wpf...

Any pics??

[suiken_2mieu]

any new picts or vids of this setup?

[Phoenixdancer]

Need some better angle pics!

[doublejj0305]

any new picts or vids of this setup?

Just took some quick pics of the setup with the stripped u2410's

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=18052&p=184487#p184487

[suiken_2mieu]

[quote]any new picts or vids of this setup?

Just took some quick pics of the setup with the stripped u2410's

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=18052&p=184487#p184487
holy crap, makes me want to do something similar (i do have 5 Dell S2309w Monitors) Someone else told me to do a 5x1 setup, but even now, the 5870 eyefinity6 edition doesn't support 5 monitor setups.

Curious, what are you using for mounts?

[doublejj0305]

It's part of the Obutto chair, It comes with a three monitor stand, I used that and mounted some individual monitor arms to the end of it. Its definitely rigged up but works well.

What do you mean the eyefinity6 edition doesn't support 5 monitor setups?

[suiken_2mieu]

It's part of the Obutto chair, It comes with a three monitor stand, I used that and mounted some individual monitor arms to the end of it. Its definitely rigged up but works well.

What do you mean the eyefinity6 edition doesn't support 5 monitor setups?

http://www.amd.com/us/Documents/Display_Configurations.pdf

Dave (ATI Rep Here) says that's it "currently" not supported. Basically it may be in the future, and since nVidia said they would support 5x1 and 6x1 setups, most like ATI will to.

[Zencyde]

Why are there not more pictures of this beautiful setup?

[ChainSOV]

after an evening of dremling/filing I present you my new almost seamless thin bezel setup

Its a shame I cant show it in full triple screen glory.I sold my TH2Go and the 5850 isn't here yet.

the bezels were almost 1.5 cm on each screen, and at an angled position they were even a bit wider.
thanks to cutting down the case they are now 0.7 cm wide.
Unfortunately, the LCD doesn't begin right where the metal edges of the screen are, so the bezels are more like 0.9 cm in total for each screen.
Well, I still saved like 0.6 cm on each side making it 1.2 cm less bezels

And it looks awesome because the left over gray bezels run around the edge of the 3 screens making it look like one


I got some in-progress pics if some of you are interested.

[suiken_2mieu]

after an evening of dremling/filing I present you my new almost seamless thin bezel setup

Its a shame I cant show it in full triple screen glory.I sold my TH2Go and the 5850 isnt here yet.

the bezels were almost 1.5cm on each screen, and at an angled position they were even a bit wider.
thanks to cutting down the case they are now 0.7cm wide.
Unfortunately, the lcd doesnt begin right where the metal edges of the screen are, so the bezels are more like 0.9cm in total for each screen.
Well, I still saved like 0.6cm on each side making it 1.2cm lezz bezels

And it looks awesome because the left over edges run around 3 screens making it look like one


I got some in-progress pics if some of you are interested.

this is like alot.

[johnnyvd]

You motivated me to do this to my U2410's and 2405wpf. Very simple to do and it cuts out trims it down about ~1/4" on each monitor. I would like to make a mold of some sort of mold to make the appearance that it is all one unit. Any ideas?

I was toying with the idea of lazer-cutting thin aluminium sheetmetal in one-piece and the anodize it in black..

If you would keep the bezels on the outsides large enough it would mask the stripped monitors.
From the front it would look like a one-piece bezel.. On the positions where the monitors touch each other you could bend the sheet..

Let me work this out in CAD..