Review on Mount-It! Single Monitor Arm Desk Mount - Gas Spring Full Motion Articulating Stand for Height Adjustable 21-27 Inch VESA Compatible Computer Screens - Clamp and Grommet Base Included by Richard Bowens

The hand raises the monitor the way I like and as close as I like and the keyboard is low under the monitor which I like. There are many new desks that come with a 9-inch floating monitor and a prop at the back of the desk. This mount is used with a 28" 4K monitor that may be stretched to the limit of its capabilities due to weight rather than width. A reduced price repair (which presumably means it was a return) from Value Max, it was cosmetically slightly damaged (which matches the description) and when repacked in the box, probably by the returner, some parts remained little loose and inappropriate. In practice, the Mars aren't very flashy, but I was pretty happy with them, whatever they were. About the mechanics: In person, this arm looks reassuringly massive, and you need it given the length this arm can stretch (roughly 25 inches). .) If you rock the monitor up and down, you can see that most of the rocking is due to the bend in the base of the vertical tube (1 3/8" diameter) and the very long clamp screw. A two- Lever foot exerts tremendous force Leaning on a 2 foot lever can easily break the table This leverage also means that slight flexing of the base and table will result in a slight wobble at the end of the monitor While smaller than the typical original stand, it is still quite flexible.As an experiment, I padded the table (1" thick) with two small pieces of 5/8" thick board to reduce wobble from the long clamp screw and also the table (There is still 3" more 1/4" adjustment left.) This greatly reduced wobble. The 1 3/8" vertical tube screws into the base, but without the two set screws tight in the base in the thread to zie hen (using one of the 4 Allen key sizes supplied), the loose threads have a lot of play and wobble. (Why didn't the engineers reduce the number of sizes of the different hex bolts to two? I don't know.) The top of the vertical tube is 14 1/2" above the mounting surface, of which 2 1/4" is needed by the arm exiting the adjustment leg. The lever is held on the tube by a ring which is tightened by two set screws, not the handle adjustment shown in the illustration. This grip only rests on the part of the hand enclosing the tube, which would otherwise have play and therefore wobble.Thanks to the plastic sleeve, the arm can be freely rotated around the pipe.The second part of the arm is attached from side to side on the other hinge.This section (covered in silver plastic) contains a mechanism in the Interior that allows you to freely move the monitor up and down (about 12 inches in total) without changing the monitor's tilt and it stays where you put it without to loosen or tighten something. . But first you need to adjust the balance spring to set this up by turning the hex bolt COUNTER-CLOCKWISE to balance more weight. Above a certain weight limit, the adjusting screw is unscrewed completely. Something else stayed with my monitor. Almost all of the fairly hefty parts of the arm are metal, but there's one that I think is a problem. The metal bracket attached to the monitor rotates up and down on the bracket on a thick piece of plastic. Only friction keeps it from slipping and sagging. The friction is created by tightening the hex screw very tightly on the plastic. But plastic cannot withstand high pressure without cracking. I think the plastic will tear if I overtighten it, which is hardly enough because when I move the monitor it sometimes slips and sags. I'm looking for a way to increase friction in a joint without tightening it further. The third time I moved the mount onto the table, the plastic knob on the adjustment screw broke, so I tightened the screw with a vise, which worked fine.