Screws to mount LCD

[Aszurom]

The dentist office I'm helping to set up the PCs in has a VESA FDMI mount on each of the patient chairs. We have two of these monitors to mount on them:
http://www.viewsoniceurope.com/UK/Pr...2/VA1703wb.htm

Just eyeballing the threaded holes in the back of the monitor, I'm not sure what size screws this will require. I was thinking perhaps a quick run to Lowes or Home Depot might get the job done. All I can find on FDMI standards specifies the distance between screw holes, but not the screw itself. Help?

Based on the only web post I can find about vesa standards screw sizes, they seem to be 4mm x 6mm with .7mm pitch. Why is this info so damn hard to nail down? I called Viewsonic directly, and even they couldn't tell me.

[Kunikos]

Couldn't you find a site that sells VESA compliant mounts and see if they sell the screws as accessory packs?

[Aszurom]

Sure did try that. I even called a couple. I guess for screws, you're on your own or something.

[XPav]

edit:

Read the spec.

http://www.vesa.org/Standards/summary/2006_2.htm

[MikeSofaer]

You could read the spec, but why when you could just drill holes in it?

[Nick Walter]

You could read the spec, but why when you could just drill holes in it?

I am shocked and appalled that it took over 12 hours for this response to be added to the thread. It was what I was expecting as the first response when I read the thread title. QT3'ers, c'mon, y'all are letting me down!

[DeepT]

I almost replied with a link to the theo-rex thread on the subject immediately after that post, but I decided to wait and see how long it would take someone else to make the reference.

[Aszurom]

Well, I just carried the monitor into Lowes and started testing screws. This is the "git-r-done" method.

Also, I invented several new words while spending 2 hours fishing the 15' VGA cables under the cabinet, through an underground conduit, up the dentist chair and into the monitor bracket. One chair down, one to go. I shall never volunteer for this sort of shit again.