{"id":8722,"date":"2007-04-11T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/tv-stand-ideas\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:20","slug":"tv-stand-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/tv-stand-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Stand Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I purchased an LCD TV earlier today via Costco&#8217;s website. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/Browse\/Product.aspx?Prodid=11182950\">This one<\/a>, if you are curious.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, I need a stand for it. I think I&#8217;m going to make one, using a spare part from my desk. Due to a somewhat complicated story I have a spare <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DCP_1932.jpg\">right hand side desk surface from this shelf<\/a>. I think I&#8217;m going to use it to make the LCD TV stand, but I&#8217;m not certain how to make the base.<\/p>\n<p>First off, I think I want the base to be around 20&#8243; off of the ground, so there should be room for a shelf in the middle. I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll make the base out of black iron pipe, with a shelf supported with tees in the center. The shelf will probably be a random piece of melamine-covered stuffs from Home Depot \/ Lowes, fastened to the black iron pipe with some manner of pipe clamp.<\/p>\n<p>Or, I could use multiple sets of flanges between some large, flat boards.<\/p>\n<p>I was also thinking of large round PVC uprights, notched, with the shelves set into that.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Any better ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I purchased an LCD TV earlier today via Costco&#8217;s website. (This one, if you are curious.) Well, I need a stand for it. I think I&#8217;m going to make one, using a spare part from my desk. Due to a somewhat complicated story I have a spare right hand side desk surface from this\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12908,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/12908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}