Hello,
I hope everyone is well.
I'm hoping to pick the brains of the gurus here. I have the following wooden desk:
The make up of desk is:
Main parts- Steel, Pigmented epoxy/polyester powder coating
Panels- Particleboard, ABS plastic, Melamine foil
I would like to attach a keyboard arm I picked up (at an amazing price of $50 CAD from a used furniture place!) to the bottom of the desk so it swivels forward. The arm looks similar, but not exactly, to this:
(Sorry for the large size)
A close-up of the part that would attach to the bottom of the desk surface is:
So here are my questions:
1) Is the besk option to screw it into place through the existing holes? I had heard that particleboard isn't the greatest stuff to screw into.
2) would it be better to somehow glue or caulk it onto the desk instead?
3) the bottom surface of the desk is not a smooth wooden surface. Imagine you flipped the desk upside down. You would find, running about an inch in from all sides, a steel reinforcement bar about 1"x1", along the entire perimeter. Would I then have to mount this arm against that?
I'm not sure if I've described the situation well enough - if more info is needed, I will try to clarify.
thank you very much!