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Step 2Creating the 'board'
Now we need to create a board to attach to the vesa mount.
Firstly measure your laptops depth (front to back) now add about 15mm incase you upgrade, and to give us some working room. Cut out a piece of wood, that about 3/4 of the width of the laptop (you could make it the full width if you wished.)
Now, carefully lay your laptop on top to give you a rough idea where the back of the laptop will sit. Draw a rough line here, so you don't have to keep measuring it up.
Work out where the center of your laptop will sit on the board, mark it, then work out the position of the vesa holes, and mark these with an X (alternatively you can place the board onto the vesa mount and poke a pencil through the holes.)
Firstly measure your laptops depth (front to back) now add about 15mm incase you upgrade, and to give us some working room. Cut out a piece of wood, that about 3/4 of the width of the laptop (you could make it the full width if you wished.)
Now, carefully lay your laptop on top to give you a rough idea where the back of the laptop will sit. Draw a rough line here, so you don't have to keep measuring it up.
- Picture 1 - Steal some vesa mount screw holes off an old monitor.
- Instead of tearing apart a monitor to get the "screw holes" (aka "blind nuts") you can pick so up at the local hardware store along with matching screws. An advantage to this is that the blind nuts they sell are meant to bite into the material you place them in, so you won't need to epoxy them in place (I'd do it anyway, though, my wife claims I overbuild things, but none of my projects has ever collapsed in use). Make sure you get screws that fit through the VESA arm mounting holes so you don't have to drill them out. My handy-dandy measuring tool says you want screws about 4 mm, or 1/8 inch, in diameter. Be sure to get "fender washers" with a matching hole. "Fender washers" are just larger-than-usual washers, to keep the screw heads from pulling through the VESA arm mounting holes. Lock washers should also be used, to keep the screws from vibrating loose and falling out (yes, even a Mac vibrates a little, due to the cooling fan).
Work out where the center of your laptop will sit on the board, mark it, then work out the position of the vesa holes, and mark these with an X (alternatively you can place the board onto the vesa mount and poke a pencil through the holes.)
- Picture 2 - Drill these holes using a drill bit slightly bigger than that of the screw holes of the monitor.
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