These modular stands are "assets" , just like hand tools, cars, and homes
The benefit of this system over every other current option on the market for industrial strenght stands is the full modularity of all parts. and pieces and the availablity of a piece or few 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.
Tools
are
Assets
HOWEVER, That does NOT mean you should try to build your own right away...
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
You'll end up with material for 5 to 10 units or more that way
You will find delivery costs and/or travel time to pickup items far outweigh the costs of purchase
You still will not have an ideal monitor mounting plate -- which can be purchased from us individually.
When might it make sense commercially ?
If you need 10 to 50 units
You have the ability to cut and deburr your own pipes for posts (or use PVC)
You can do some simple drilling and tapping,
If you can do that, you can save yourself a few sheckels by building them yourself -- but you'll still need to navigate the monitor mounting plate -- which can be purchased from us individually.
How can we help you if you want to go big? Are you left to your own devices only?
If you need 50 to 500 units or more for your own use, not for instant resale, we may be able to provide purchasing services and fabrication services and/or we may be able to refer you to someone else for support.
If you want to learn how to design and build these systems, then ignoring much of the information just presented may be relevant, but be smart about it.
Find classes given by othes who have material and equipment to learn quickly at low cost. Life is short and there is a lot more to learn.
Create a group that wants to learn together so you can buy material in bulk and split some of the acquisition time up.
Find customers who will buy your initial projects to offset your time and material costs
Even if you decide you want to build your own, we encourage you to consider buying the mounting plates from us. It's the right material for most typical monitor applications and it simply is not cost effective to try to produce these in low volume or without significant experience specifically with ACM (Aluminum Composite Material)
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.
Unfortunately, it took an unbelievable amount of "extra special 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 complete.
One "added advantage" of this material is that is FLEXES. It can be bent slightly and it still holds it's shape. 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.
Monitor Plate Flex
Monitor Plate Trim
(tin snips or razor knife score and snap)
Another added advantage is that it CAN BE CUT WITH TIN SNIPS!
(and yes, you could cut out the entire square with tin snips. then you'd just need a template to mark the holes quicky - and one plate from us works as a good tempalte or you can draw one up in CAD easily (or we may provide one you can print out))
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).
You can be creative in other ways too.