Easy Monitor Handle

If you frequently need to move monitors and TVs around a handle will make life so much easier.

My simple way of adding a handle to a monitor is to buy a kitchen cutting board with a handle and either use it in full or in part. I drill holes to match the VESA holes on the back and screw the cutting board to the monitor.

In the image below, I am using a complete 15″ x 11″ bamboo cutting board with all four screws. The reason for using all four in this instance is because the monitor is really a 32″ older smart TV that weights 32 pounds. All four screws help distribute the load when picking the TV up by the handle.

I For lighter monitors, I don’t need to use the entire cutting board. I cut off what I don’t need, drill the holes and mount.  Here’s an example of a partial board on a 27″ monitor.  I prefer bamboo, but getting the right size sometimes requires a different material, such as the plastic board below. Here’s another example using a plastic board in one of my early implementations.While selecting and cutting the board, I pay attention to any vents on the monitor to insure they are are not blocked.

Here’s a cut bamboo example:

Drilling the holes in the right place is easy with the right template. I bought a flat metal VESA adapter that has nearly all VESA configurations. The one I bought is the HumanCentric VESA Mount Adapter Plate for TV Mounts. This is available from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079SF6XG9

The picture below shows the template on the bamboo for the 32″, 32 pound TV above right after I drew circles inside the holes with the black magic marker for drill points.

I use washers on the top side of the cutting boards to help keep the screw head from going to deep into the boards and for a more stable mounting.

— Bruce Miller