Buy vs Build
Buy vs Build
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At the price we sell for, it is NOT cost effective for anyone to try to build under 10 of these.
You need to buy components in bulk to get good pricing and you'll end up with material for 5 to 10 units or more that way AND you will find delivery costs and/or travel time to pickup items far outweigh the costs of purchase AND you still will not have an ideal monitor mounting plate (which can be purchased from us individually).
If you need 10 to 50 units AND you have the ability to cut and deburr your own pipes for posts (or use PVC) AND you can do some simple drilling and tapping, you can save yourself a chunk of money by building them yourself -- but you'll still need to navigate the monitor mounting plate (which can be purchased from us individually).
If you need 50 to 500 units or more, it's typically a custom purchasing and fabrication job for us or someone else to support.
"But Our Mounting Plates are 'Special' !!"
"But Our Mounting Plates are 'Special' !!"
In a "cnc" world this "should be" a very simple product and if it was made of steel it would be. But it's not. It's made from an Aluminum veneered plastic -- which is typically cut with a CNC Router not a CNC Laser, and it took quite a bit of "extra sauce" to figure out how to do this for a production environment to eliminate burrs and keep that rascally plate in place until the cut is fully complete.
The "added advantage" of this material is that is FLEXES. It can be bent slightly and hold it's shape and THUS, no spacers are required and no stamped metal plates are required. This is actually a very "cool" example of using a good, lower cost material for the right application.
Another added advantage is that it CAN BE CUT WITH TIN SNIPS!
HOWEVER, if you want to diy this and you simply don't want to spend your money with us, FEAR NOT!
You can also do this with luan or thin plywood. You can do it with thick plywood. You can do it with a galvanized metal cover plate for an electrical box and drill your own holes (that's how we did ours to begin with).
Monitor Plate Flex
Monitor Plate Trim
(tin snips or razor knife score and snap)
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The benefit of this system over every other option is the full modularity of all parts. and pieces and the availablity of a piece or too if needed in a pinch without Vendor dependance.
Each part and piece can be upgraded or down graded as needed and they can be mixed and matched as needs change.
In 20 years, there's no reason to believe any of these parts should break and you should be able to sell them for 70% of what you paid for them if not more, if the pricing of the products remains constant.
That's what makes these assets not expenses.
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