Advantus Aluminum Head Push Pins, Steel 0.625-Inch Point, Silver, 100 per Box (CPAL5) Review

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(More customer reviews)Horrid product: cheaply made, a head that reminds one of something found on the sidewalk, soft steel points, not very sharp to begin with, blunt after just a few uses. After these came, in a frenetic search, I finally found my old box of pins: "Moore" pins is the name, not "Gem" or "Advantus" (now there is a name that should have warned me off). Compared to "Moore Push Pins" these things are an abject failure. Sorry I ordered them, not really worth returning - I'll donate them to the local Salvation Army store. And, now, it is off to order the "right stuff" - the Moore's do come in 100's, just that Amazon & its partners only carry 20's. Try an artists' supply store for the large boxes.

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Advantus Aluminum Head Push Pins, Steel 0.5-Inch Point, Silver, 100 per Box (CPAL4) Review

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(More customer reviews)These are the right pins for tough jobs and they won't quit where standard 3/8" plastic topped pins won't do. Here's why and when I choose these:
1] Like the standard pins, you get 100 push pins!
2] OK, there are no pretty colors, but these aluminum tops won't crack if you have to push the pin into something harder than a bulletin board such as plywood or pegboard the way a plastic top may.
3] Just like there more civilized cousins, the little plastic colorful pins, these brutes come in a nice transparent case so they are contained and you won't end up sticking yourself in the finger when you are looking for pins in your desk drawer.
4] The points easily pierce almost anything except metal and the holes are small enough to be painted over later if you remove the pin.
5] They work easily and are easily removed and reused. Again, unlike their tame plastic little cousins they are almost indestructible -- A FOREVER PIN!
Getting 100 of these in a hard container for about 6 dollars costs about 6 times more than the cute, colorful, little 3/8" steel-tipped plastic topped pins. Having said that, when you need to hang a thick and/or heavy object and you need to insert push pins into a semi-hard surface these push pins are godsends.

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DS100 Dual-monitor Desk Stand Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought two of these in 2005 and love them. They are sturdy, look great, and reduce the desk space consumed by "monitor feet" on my desk.
I've had various 17", 19", 24", and 20" monitors on these stands. I have used multiple Samsung, ViewSonic, Gateway, and HP monitors with these stands--they all work, out of the box. (Apple monitors require a $30 adapter.)
All screws are included; the brackets are heavy gauge metal. Big friendly knobs make adding and removing a monitor from the bracket very easy (see the pictures I've uploaded).
If your monitor has 75 mm or 100 mm hole spacing, these will work--a simple adapting bracket is included, and it's very sturdy.
I've used this stand to hold all landscape, all portrait, and a mix of landscape & portrait displays. It works great. It's possible to balance two very different weight monitors by sliding where the monitors sit relative to the base--for about 15 months, I used a 24" + 17" on each stand, with the 17" in portrait mode.
Today I am running 4 x 20" in portrait mode to compliment a 30" middle screen. This is fantastic--the stands keep the cables organized, and only 3 monitor feet are eating desktop space in a span of 80" across my desk. The monitors are sort of "floating" and there's plenty of room on the desk for papers, phones, etc.
As another reviewer mentioned, the monitor brackets can only be adjusted in one plane (tilt or swivel). Which plane this is depends on how you orient the bracket that you attach to the monitor. For me, I always choose tilt because I want the two vertical of the two adjacent displays to be exactly lined up, so swivel is useless. After a lot of fiddling with this, I have found I don't really tilt the monitors either, I run them pretty close to perpendicular to the desk. When monitors were smaller (17"), I used to tilt screens, but with today's larger screens, I am not tilting them as much, even on my free standing screens.
However, if you do find yourself needing more degrees of freedom, Ergotron sells replacement brackets with a number of options. The individual DS parts can be bought from a number of vendors and mixed-and-matched to create new configurations.
When I bought these stands in 2005, I paid a lot more money for them than Amazon wants now. The organization and tidiness from the stands is well worth the price. Ergotron makes a great product.
(P.S. I've uploaded 2 pictures of my stands to the 'Customer images' because it's so hard to find good pictures of these on the web.)

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