I recently got a Cinema Display from goodwill for $8 (+ $15 shipping) but it did not have a stand. I was hoping I could just use the leg from one of my 17" Cinema displays. Unfortunately, when it arrived I realized it wasn't just the leg that was missing, but the metal tab was actually snapped off from the back of the hinge that mounts to the back of the display. However, I have some 17" cinema displays that weren't in great shape, so I decided to give it a go, knowing that the metal hinge piece is like $50 and I didn't really want to have some ugly metal rod jammed into the back of the monitor to keep it upright.
The mounting locations for the 17" hinge are actually wider than the 23" hinge, but initially seemed to be the correct height. So I originally was going to try to bridge the two pairs of mounting holes with a piece of metal, then drill holes in the metal cross piece and then possible use slightly longer screws to secure in place. However, I actually decided that the metal bracket the hinge attached to is removable. So I changed my strategy, and decided to drill holes below where the new, wider bracket holes are, then marry the plate to the hinge with some m3 screws with nuts. I was hoping the screw heads would be flat enough to allow the mounting plat to be screwed back in place.
All that went relatively well, other than I wasn't able to access all the screws to mount the plate back down to the monitor. So I had to unmate the hinge then screw the plat down. So the mounting plate was attached to the monitor, with the screws sticking up from the monitor's back. The lower screws were being pinched to the monitor, so tightening the nuts was easy. The upper screws were loose, so I had to push up from the bottom to keep the screws from spinning as I tightened the nut. But I got it mounted securely. Unfortunately, I realized that the case wouldn't close because the hinge was mounted too low. Apparently, when I figured the location of the new hinge, I was comparing it to the original hinge mounted upside down (I couldn't tell because the hinge tab was broken off, so I couldn't tell orientation).
So, I pulled everything off and aligned the hinge properly. This time, because of how high the hinge placement was, I had to trim off a bit of one side of the hinge mounting arm (it was in the way of a grounding screw), and then had to drill holes in the hinge mounting arm itself to line up with one of my previously drilled holes in the mounting plate. Then I marked and drilled a hole in the mounting plate for the lower holes on the hinge. Once I did that, I repeated attaching the mounting plate with my 8mm long 3mm screws sticking up from the plate, lowered the hinge onto the screws, and tightened down the nuts. It seemed to be really securely mounted. So I snapped the silver plastic cover over the hinge assembly (make sure you use the 17" hinge cover (the 23"hinge cover will work, but it is too wide for the clear acrylic cover from the 17"). I was able to successfully put the back plate back on (it all lined up properly with the new hinge placement). Once that was back on, I was able to attach the leg to the hinge. I had eyeballed the height before the install and it looked like the leg would work, but I was a little worried that it would be too short and the monitor would always be at too steep of an angle. Fortunately, it seems to be the exact right height and I can go from straight up, to a pleasing tilt with no problems.
So, this post is mainly to let anyone know if they need a hinge / leg for the 23" Cinema ADC display, they can cannibalize a 17" and have a near stock look for the leg. If anyone wants more details of how I mounted it, I could open it back up and take pictures of the successful mounting.
I think @Stephen has a 3d printed version of the clear parts from the kickstand (which I was planning on using to fix this, until I realized the metal tab I'd need to screw the kickstand into was snapped off). The other thing, I'm not sure of (because I didn't have a tab to compare to) is if the screw holes in the 23" tab are located at the same locations as the 17". Because I used everything from the hinge to the kickstand from the 17", they all lined up. I'm curious if the leg from a 17" is exactly the same as the 23", but not curious enough to spend 20 hours printing Stephen's leg to compare.
Just wanted to throw it out there in case someone else is in the same boat with a broken kickstand on a 23" with a working kickstand from a 17". I'm getting old and need the screen real estate from the 23".
Attached is the picture of the broken hinge from the 23"
The mounting locations for the 17" hinge are actually wider than the 23" hinge, but initially seemed to be the correct height. So I originally was going to try to bridge the two pairs of mounting holes with a piece of metal, then drill holes in the metal cross piece and then possible use slightly longer screws to secure in place. However, I actually decided that the metal bracket the hinge attached to is removable. So I changed my strategy, and decided to drill holes below where the new, wider bracket holes are, then marry the plate to the hinge with some m3 screws with nuts. I was hoping the screw heads would be flat enough to allow the mounting plat to be screwed back in place.
All that went relatively well, other than I wasn't able to access all the screws to mount the plate back down to the monitor. So I had to unmate the hinge then screw the plat down. So the mounting plate was attached to the monitor, with the screws sticking up from the monitor's back. The lower screws were being pinched to the monitor, so tightening the nuts was easy. The upper screws were loose, so I had to push up from the bottom to keep the screws from spinning as I tightened the nut. But I got it mounted securely. Unfortunately, I realized that the case wouldn't close because the hinge was mounted too low. Apparently, when I figured the location of the new hinge, I was comparing it to the original hinge mounted upside down (I couldn't tell because the hinge tab was broken off, so I couldn't tell orientation).
So, I pulled everything off and aligned the hinge properly. This time, because of how high the hinge placement was, I had to trim off a bit of one side of the hinge mounting arm (it was in the way of a grounding screw), and then had to drill holes in the hinge mounting arm itself to line up with one of my previously drilled holes in the mounting plate. Then I marked and drilled a hole in the mounting plate for the lower holes on the hinge. Once I did that, I repeated attaching the mounting plate with my 8mm long 3mm screws sticking up from the plate, lowered the hinge onto the screws, and tightened down the nuts. It seemed to be really securely mounted. So I snapped the silver plastic cover over the hinge assembly (make sure you use the 17" hinge cover (the 23"hinge cover will work, but it is too wide for the clear acrylic cover from the 17"). I was able to successfully put the back plate back on (it all lined up properly with the new hinge placement). Once that was back on, I was able to attach the leg to the hinge. I had eyeballed the height before the install and it looked like the leg would work, but I was a little worried that it would be too short and the monitor would always be at too steep of an angle. Fortunately, it seems to be the exact right height and I can go from straight up, to a pleasing tilt with no problems.
So, this post is mainly to let anyone know if they need a hinge / leg for the 23" Cinema ADC display, they can cannibalize a 17" and have a near stock look for the leg. If anyone wants more details of how I mounted it, I could open it back up and take pictures of the successful mounting.
I think @Stephen has a 3d printed version of the clear parts from the kickstand (which I was planning on using to fix this, until I realized the metal tab I'd need to screw the kickstand into was snapped off). The other thing, I'm not sure of (because I didn't have a tab to compare to) is if the screw holes in the 23" tab are located at the same locations as the 17". Because I used everything from the hinge to the kickstand from the 17", they all lined up. I'm curious if the leg from a 17" is exactly the same as the 23", but not curious enough to spend 20 hours printing Stephen's leg to compare.
Just wanted to throw it out there in case someone else is in the same boat with a broken kickstand on a 23" with a working kickstand from a 17". I'm getting old and need the screen real estate from the 23".
Attached is the picture of the broken hinge from the 23"
