The Problem (Stand Has No Height Adjustment)
Why I want to lower it
The monitor I use for working from home (BenQ GW2280) sits too high for my taste, but the stock stand has no height adjustment, so there’s no way to lower it.
So I’m going to relocate the mounting point on the stand.
↓ The monitor:
The plan
Disassemble the monitor / stand mount, sandwich a wooden spacer between them so the monitor rides lower on the stand.
The Mod
First, separated the monitor from the stand. They were connected via the silver bracket shown.
The monitor’s back has 4 screw holes for wall-mount use, and I can use those to attach the wooden spacer.
For the spacer wood, I had a leftover SPF 2×6 in the workshop, so that’s what I’m using. (Probably bigger / chunkier than necessary for this purpose.)
Measured the spacing of the monitor’s back screw holes and drilled matching holes in the wood.
Drilled holes for the screws:
The wood is too thick for the included screws to reach, so I counterbored each hole with a Forstner bit so the screw head sits below the wood surface.
Screw the wood spacer to the back of the monitor.
Then screw the stand mounting bracket to the spacer.
Test-assembled the whole thing — the height is good.
But visually, the wood color clashes with the monitor (the wooden spacer dominates the look 😅).
Disassembled, painted the wood black (water-based stain).
That tones it down significantly:
Done!
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