Remove the strings and you should be all set.The monitor stand is aesthetically appealing, it can seamlessly tilt the monitor to 25 degrees, and can even rotate the Mac pro into portrait mode. Eventually, it should lock into the expose position where it will stay. You have to pull slowly but very firmly to get the flange out. Once I had two holes on the flange threaded with loops of string, I pulled up on the string while activating the flange release with a plastic card. A small needle-nosed pliers helps with threading the holes. To do this I had to first get a bit of fishing line through the hole, tie that to a piece of string, and then pull the string through.

I threaded two heavy duty pieces of string through two of the holes in the flange, one on each side. Using the same technique that WildGunman describes I was able to get it out. It's important to get it locked into this position BEFORE removing the screws if you want to avoid this problem yourself. I found myself in the same situation when I tried to mount my Mac monitor to a new third party stand, and found that after I got the original Mac stand off, the flange was caught inside of the monitor. Note: that opening the display voids your warranty (howver, Apple claims that taking the stand off of mine voided my warranty already so.) This should have been incredibly easy for the Apple store to do I am sure seeing as how they open these types of screens (iMac screens work the same way) often I would think.Īnyways, hope this helps someon else that is stuck in the same place I was. The whole process from opening the display to closing it back up took 20 mins. Then I could relase the latch and move the flange using the stand (since it was attached with the two screws) (I screwed them in from the inside of the display. I was then able to fit the stand through the opening in the back of the display and screw in two screws to secure the stand. I went to home depot and purchase two heavy duty suction cups (these: ) I found this explaination on ifixit of how to take apart the screen They would have needed the display for 3 - 5 days and couldn't explain to me how they were actually going to fix it. They claimed that removing the stand is a non-standard use of the montior which invalidates the warranty and wanted to charge me $250 to try and fix the problem. It was the first time I have been throughly angry by apple support. I ended taking it to an apple store for support and they gave me no help.

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