It was while I had the TV mounted on the wall of my apartment, and kept the stand in the TV box, stored in my Makeshift tv stand building's storage room for safe-keeping—or so I thought. When I eventually moved into another apartment that had strict rules about mounting things to the walls, I searched the storage room for the box and it was missing. Was it stolen by someone else looking to replace their lost stand?
Who knows. After an angry conversation with the building manager I became resigned to the fact that I would need to purchase a replacement stand. Being a thrifty university student, my main criterion was cost minimization.
So I checked Craigslist and Kijiji and found nothing. It was at this point that I set out to construct my own stand. My decision-making around the design and material selection was simple: it needed to be strong, cheap, and I preferred to minimize waste. I got mine from my favorite soulless, big corporation, Home Depot. The tools I required Sexi match a pencil, measuring tape, hacksaw, a wrench Forrest dick a ratchet two wrenches will do.
It may not be pretty, but I still consider this to be, in the words Makeshift tv stand my father the engineer, an 'elegant solution'. Just follow these three easy steps and you too can free yourself from this conundrum! Did you use this instructable in your classroom? Add a Teacher Note to share how you incorporated it into your lesson. Your TV will need to have mounting bolts for this stand design to work for you.
The screws should line up vertically and will give you the spacing for the holes. The horizontal distance will determine how far apart to space the vertical support. Again, I found that the the holes to be sufficiently spaced. These bolts will act as the feet of the stand. I used lock washers on either side of the steel angle bar to ensure a tight fit that would not come undone.
Below is a photo of what the components should look like when assembled. The final step is to bolt the vertical support braces to the bottom longitudinal pieces. The spacing between the braces is determined by the distance between the bolts on the back of the TV. I mounted the vertical support braces to the TV first and then bolted them to the bottom longitudinal pieces. To finish it off, you can stick self-adhesive felt pads to Makeshift tv stand feet to ensure the bolts don't scratch whatever surface you're putting the TV onto.
Great idea! Do you still have this one? I could pick it up in GTA of you are still selling Makeshift tv stand Loving your tv stand idea! Would you be willing to build and sell something like this? I just bought a new 40" Samsung tv and am looking for a stand. Reply 4 years ago on Introduction. Thanks for the feedback!
I'm only really interested in sharing the 'how to' knowledge, not in building and selling these. That said, I would be willing to part with Makeshift tv stand original model shown in the photos; it's been collecting dust, taking up space in my closet for some time now as Makeshift tv stand since replaced my old, stand-less TV.
But unless you live in the Greater Toronto Area and want to pick it up, it might not be worth it after shipping costs as the parts are fairly heavy. A wonderful, easy, and useful project. This is what I've been looking for. I haven't lost the stand for my monitor, just never wanted to pay the price for one. This one will work great. I will modify it in one small way for my computer monitor.
I'll put a swivel on it so I can turn my monitor into either landscape or portrait orientation as I use both depending on what I'm doing.
Sorry for the delay. The only thing to watch out for is the spacing of the screws, and ensuring that the holes line up. Add Teacher Note. Did you make this project? Share it with us! I Made It! Large Motors Class. JustinM 1 year ago. Reply Upvote. Eric H-S serenitynerd Reply 4 years ago on Introduction.
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