HOT! Monitor Arm @ staples for $4 AIR (ends 5/25)

[jjmIII]

Grabbed the last 2 from the Alliance OH store. $3.90 each + tax.

 

[huesmann]

Oh yeah, install these suckers on your particle-board desks, and stick 19" or 21" CRTs on them!

 

[trikster2]

Just want to thaks Xidus for the excelent post!

My staples had 5 of them.

Rang up for $4 with the instant at the register rebate.

lady at the register freeked. said it could not be right and scurried off to find the manager.

Refused to sell me two (how can they do that?) but the manager let her sell me one.

Also got that undermonitor metal keyboard drawer for $7.10

Both of these products are made like tanks.

I'm not sure why I got both though, it's an either/or sort of thing, we may use the monitor arm to hold my wife's laptop (she's always knocking it off the edge of the "wing" chair she sits in.....

Has anyone been brave enough to try one of these with their 19" monitor????

 

[FredFlinstone]

Xidus It seems that the base is meant to be rigid and only the platform rotates.

 

[Xidus]

It certainly looks like the base is twisted in one of the pics on the box. In either case if I ever get around to using this I think I'll try loosening that bolt and see what happens.

 

[Mong]

I picked up two of the $7.10 under desk treys and three of the $3.90 arms. They had the sale tag right on the shelf.

These puppies are heavy.

 

[trikster2]

Thanks again Xidus

Or at least my wife thanks you. The arm works perfectly as a holder for her Compaq 1800T laptop. I clamped the arm to our cheap family room coffee table, it has a decent reach so now her laptop hovers over instead of heats up her lap. When she is done she just swings the laptop out of the way, instead of precariously balancing it on the arm of her "wing" chair and dumping it every once in a while.

Tried to pick up another today and found out the instant rebate expired.

Re: Rotating.

Yeah the picture on the box makes it looks like it rotates, AND there is a piece of teflon separting the base from the arm that sure does look like it is designed for frictionless rotating. I guess if you had a heavy monitor rotating at a wierd angle it might put a bad torque on the system that the arm isn't made for, but for her eight pound laptop I think we'll risk it. That screw on the bottom sure was in tight but if you have a large oversized screwdriver it can be loosened with a little effort.

If you get the monitor-stand/keyboard holder, don't miss the two thin black adhesive strips in the bottom of the box made to be stick on to the bottom of keyboard holder protecting any surface (like my cheap coffee table) you set it on.

Can't believe how much I like the keyboard holder/stand too. I normaly just slide the keyboard under the couch but this is a lot nicer. Also the extra two or three inches puts the monitor exactly at eye level as I slouch on the couch.

Wow, I just figured out a use for those fake black tubes that are trying to look like heavy duty springs: They'll do a swell job hiding her ethernet and power cables...........

Doh. If that keyboard holder/stand was just a 1/4" taller it would fit my $19 Visioneer 8100/staples scanner; I guess that will just have to stay under the couch.....

 

[marill999]

Can someone please post a scan of their receipt?

 

[thortyboy]

The posted price at the staples in Huntington Beach (yorktown and goldenwest) said it was 27 bucks. I talked to the sales manager and he rang it up for 20 bucks. but i told him that my friend got it for 4 bucks up north.. he said he'd knock of 5 bucks just because, so i said okay, and when i went to buy it, it came up as 3.90!!!! i ran back to get another one! hahaha 8 bucks for 2!!!!!!!!!! swwwwweeeeeet!

 

[GermyBoy]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
50 lb limit on the arm that you linked to. 17" monitor - be careful with a 19".

Check on the specs for the sku 218131 arm. A cheapo may not be able to hold a 17" only a 15" screen.

Does that mean it won't hold my 21" and 17" dual combo (about 130 pounds). LOL!!

 

[Omagh]

Seems like Staples are dumping their stock on this item. Kensiko is a Staples brand. However they
are moving to a more uniform color scheme on their inhouse products. Notice the color (red) that most of
their inhouse items are now?

Thanks for the original post. Scored two of these, however don't know if I will ever use them. I will bring one to Europe the next time that I go there.

 

[Xidus]

Originally posted by: Omagh


Thanks for the original post. Scored two of these, however don't know if I will ever use them.

Me too, just got it because it was silly cheap. Maybe it'll end up becoming someone's birthday or christmas gift

 

[GymcShoe]

Here's the skinny on the Rotating:

Yes, this arm does indeed rotate, but the screw is really tight.. i wasnt able to rotate the arm until I put my monitor on the tray... the weight of the monitor added the torque needed to rotate the arm..

And those fake black tubes are not there to look like heavy duty springs, they're there to hide the monitor wires you can run inside the arm.. this is great so you can conceal the wires in the arm and run it down to your computer...