There is hardware for raising and lowering a sewing machine available
from several suppliers. Maybe that would work?

Mike in Mystic wrote:

This is an interesting post. I would also like any info anyone might know
about on finding a source for a mechanical device to lower and raise a
flat-screen monitor into/out of a desk top. I've also done google searches
to death and have found virtually nothing.

Mike

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There are no stupid questions.
There are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.


"Blue" wrote in message
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I googled myself to death trying to find web pages about people
designing and building their own desks and I just can't find anything
other than basic plans.

I'm a computer geek and I'll admit it but I'm not shy around power
tools. I read all the time about people doing all sorts of wierd
things to customize how their computer look but what I dream about is
the perfect desk if there is such a thing.

Sure I could slap something together but I want. I have no trouble
finding simple plans or just outright designing it from scratch; it's
just a desk. But if I did that no sooner would I complete it than I
will have changed my mind or figured out how something could be
better. There has to be some acumulated knowedge about the art of
desk design. I just don't know how or where to find it.

I also wouldn't want to limit myself to wood though that the most
obvious and cheepest material. I want the theory behind desk design
rather than just plans for how to build one. Also it going to be a
computer desk.

One of the reasons motivating me is that I am a larger than average
man and ready made computer desks seem to be designed for short
people. They just seem to all be the same basic dozen desk designes
modified for a computer as an afterthought. For instance things like
a keyboard drawer make a desk even shorter but the desks don't get any
taller.

The things I want to know is are there any desk designs with
adjustable height? What should be placed where and why. Do I need to
understand the materials and how much weight it can bear or keeping
it's mass balenced? What about other maters such as glass or
aluminum? Can/should I design with those locking anchor system ready
made desk use or should I go with screws and glue? What about taking
the desk apart later? Any other stuff I would need to know in case I
wanted a really radical design? How about just general unusual ideas
of those that have come before me.

It's amazing how hard it is to find what your looking for when you
don't know enough to explain it. Especially when it comes to the
special vocabulary to use to find relevent stuff in a web seach
engine.