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Monitor arm gave out at 2am on a deadline
3am Tuesday. Audio file for a podcast episode due by 8. Right monitor just tilted forward. Slowly. Like it was bowing out. Heard the gas spring hiss. Had to prop it up with a stack of notebooks for the rest of the night. Cabled everything to one screen and got it done. Swapped to a gas spring arm rated for heavier weight the next afternoon. Anybody ever have a mount fail mid-session?
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finley7771mo ago
That "slowly tilting forward like it was bowing out" bit is honestly terrifying, lol. I had a cheap gas spring arm fail once on a 27 inch monitor and it just dropped the whole thing like a guillotine. Broke the bezel and I had to use electrical tape for a month. Your notebooks hack is actually genius though, I used a stack of textbooks and a shoe. Its wild how much difference a few pounds of rated weight makes, people dont think about the leverage when you tilt these things. Glad you got the deadline done, nothing worse than hardware dying at 2am.
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blairwhite1mo ago
Tilting forward slowly is creepy but I'd rather have that than a sudden drop like yours. @finley777 you had me at electrical tape for a month, thats dedication. People blow these monitor failures out of proportion though, its just a screen not a life support machine.
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