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Disclaimer: You may very well damage or destroy your monitor if you attempt this. Your monitor may be different and this may not even work for you. You have been warned.
I recently have fallen back on a L90D+ 19" monitor while traveling, the FW900 is just too impractical. I quickly got tired of the wide bezel of unsightly, cheap looking, plastic. A quick investigation revealed a very attractive metal housing beneath the plastic facade. The housing of the screen itself had less than half the width. Furthermore, as it turns out, the plastic housing was not structural at all.
The Monitor before modifications
Beneath that ugly housing, there was this beautiful polished metal bezel! Who knew!
Much nicer looking
The rear. I thought about trimming the black plastic housing down and putting it back on, but I like the industrial-technical look of exposed electronics. As you can see, I followed the same philosophy on the support arm.
Here you can see the solution to the most frustrating aspect. The metal housing, which held the circuit boards and the screen itself, screwed onto the outside of the screen. You can see it in the picture above this one, it's an ugly light gray metal. I unscrewed it from the screen, trimmed it down with tin snips, drilled a new hole, bent it back, and then slipped the tabs between the polished metal bezel and the inside of the screen. There's a small space where you can force it in.
Net result:
I recently have fallen back on a L90D+ 19" monitor while traveling, the FW900 is just too impractical. I quickly got tired of the wide bezel of unsightly, cheap looking, plastic. A quick investigation revealed a very attractive metal housing beneath the plastic facade. The housing of the screen itself had less than half the width. Furthermore, as it turns out, the plastic housing was not structural at all.
The Monitor before modifications
Beneath that ugly housing, there was this beautiful polished metal bezel! Who knew!
Much nicer looking
The rear. I thought about trimming the black plastic housing down and putting it back on, but I like the industrial-technical look of exposed electronics. As you can see, I followed the same philosophy on the support arm.
Here you can see the solution to the most frustrating aspect. The metal housing, which held the circuit boards and the screen itself, screwed onto the outside of the screen. You can see it in the picture above this one, it's an ugly light gray metal. I unscrewed it from the screen, trimmed it down with tin snips, drilled a new hole, bent it back, and then slipped the tabs between the polished metal bezel and the inside of the screen. There's a small space where you can force it in.
Net result:
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