Vertdesk Unboxing & Build Guide
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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2,706 words · ~13 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the vert desk now this is the first time
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I've ever looked at a desk on this show and uh honestly the the pitch like here
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lus do you want to check this out was kind of like um I guess so until I did a
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little bit more looking into it so it would appear that this is becoming
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pretty well established that's sitting too much aside from the general
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inactivity associated with sitting can actually be a direct may have a direct
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correlation to health problems including obesity cardiovascular disease um even
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for people who are otherwise sort of
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similar test cases things like bus drivers so standing trolley operators
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were less likely to have heart attacks than sitting bus drivers for example
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which um to me was sort of bizarre but I
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guess I'm not going to be the one to to
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knock it before I try it so the vert desk is an electric automatically uh
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well not automatically you have to press a button but an electric adjustable desk
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that goes from comfortable sitting height to comfortable standing height in
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about 25 seconds so the idea it it holds
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up to 200 lb which means all of your gear that you'd normally have on your
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desk will comfortably fit on them you could even sit on it if you don't have
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the aforementioned obesity problem although I wouldn't sit on it and put a
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heavy computer on it and all that kind of stuff and the idea is that instead of
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sitting all day or instead of getting a standing desk and having to stand all
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day you can have some kind of a compromise between the two that will
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make you more comfortable overall so it's available in a variety of different
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options this is the black base I believe the black base is the only base but you
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can get a couple of different tops for it so we are going to be going through
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the process of assembling the vert desk which came in three boxes for me over
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the next little bit here very exciting
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so it looks like our table did arrive in one piece well okay like as one piece as
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you'd expect a table that you have to assemble to arrive so uh there's
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cardboard packing around the outside side for whatever reason this particular
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box was labeled do not lay flat and I can't imagine any reason why a tabletop
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couldn't be laid flat but um there you go there's pre-tapped holes on this side
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the bottom side where apparently we're going to be screwing things into at some
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point so you can see they're here here here here or not pre-tapped but pre-
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trilled so just starter holes and then I want to show you guys all the other
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things that are included so we've got feet for the bottoms of these uh height
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of adjustable feet we've got whatever this
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is some screws bag of screws little
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plastic channel for something okay uh
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two motor looking pieces one of which has uh two plugs one of which looks like
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it's for the remote motor so I'm guessing this goes on one side this goes
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on the other side and then the other one goes to what appears to be a control pod
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where you can go up and down using this and it plugs into the uh the main
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control box right there all right so then we've got two uh stands so two sets
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of two ft with uh support pillars that adjust up and down and then we have the
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tabletop itself which you can get it without the tabletop I think you save
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100 bucks or something like that if you want to put your own tabletop on it and finally we've got four pieces of metal
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that presumably do something we
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also have an instruction booklet which we are definitely going to need
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otherwise we would be doomed read all the instructions prior to blah blah blah
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etc etc etc so here we go
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guys all right so the first step is to take the left leg which you can tell
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because of where the threaded holes are located and the back of the device is
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going to be the shorter leg not the longer one and you take this small motor
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assembly and put two of the machine screws which look like this if you guys
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want to have a look at that in with the included Allen key so
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the only thing you really need to provide from for your yourself to
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assemble the vert desk is your own Phillips head screwdriver because they
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provide the Allen keys that you need so we're going to put in two of those
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secure just like that so the motor head faces towards the short leg and then the
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other thing we need is this hex Rod here
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which is going to go through the motor assembly into oh hold on maybe we want
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the longer piece ha into the table
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itself yeah there it goes
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so to diagnose uh the hex Rod not going
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all the way into the left leg support
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we're actually hooking up we're jumping ahead of ourselves a little bit in the
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vert desk assembly operation so we're hooking the uh the motor up to the
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control unit and
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uh what I want to do is is turn it a
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little bit oops oh that
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com yeah I thought it I thought it uh wasn't working cuz it was so quiet
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listen that you can't even hear it so we're just going to try and rotate it to
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find the right spot and I need that uh I
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need that Allen key back there okay it seems to be aligned now so you can see
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pressing on it is actually moving the vert desk now so I'm going to go ahead
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and stab it some more and now I think we
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are actually correctly inserted
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so we're going to carry on
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now so the next step is to put the the
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hex Rod through the other table now what I realized is that when we hooked this
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one up in order to rotate it we didn't have to do that all you have to do is
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pull on it and it will rotate the uh the inside piece no problem however
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um once you've got the hex rod in there it's uh hooked up to this motor so they
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so they don't move anymore now they're completely stuck aligned so the next
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thing now is to go ahead and
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screw the here we
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go put screws in and attach it to the
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workspace uh top itself now you can tell from where the pilot holes are that the
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ones here right here and about here somewhere that are aligned for these
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These are the back of the desk because there's more leg room towards the front
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of the desk where you're less likely to hit this Rod the four long wood screws go in now
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so one two
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three four without fully tightening them and I cannot emphasize enough the
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importance of getting these lined upright so that they're the same height
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away from the hole on either side because otherwise as far as I can tell
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your table will be permanently
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crooked the control switch has special screws so these are the only screws for
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the control switch they're kind of about the length of the width of your finger
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and you can mount it either on the right side or on the left side it's totally up
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to you so I think being right-handed I will go for the right side of the table
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so you just align that with the pilot holes and screw those
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in then you run the cable on the inside
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of the control rod of the hex Rod right there so this next piece is the cover
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for the hex Rod so you can put it on either way and depending on which way
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you put your switch you're going to uh take these notches here and run it
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Through The Notches there we go so that there's some cable management going on
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and so that nothing's going to interfere with the hex Rod itself so this is where
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I guess a drill might be kind of nice because this is going to take me a
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little while here so I'm going to put about eight of these screws in in order
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to attach this
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firmly this is one of those things where you can never quite decide is it faster
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to just Soldier through it or is it
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faster to uh go get the drill and do it
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that way so the rod cover here we fully
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tightened as we went but this next one we're not going to fully tighten as we
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go it takes three wood screws see there's uh guide holes that are in here
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so three wood screws that go through it and we're yeah
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we're not fully tightening any of this stuff so I do have my drill now so I'm
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just starting that for the sake of the camera and then we take These Guys these
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like honking guys like this and these go into the ends actually maybe it'd be
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better to do this end so you guys can see what I'm doing so it goes into the
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end here and then screws into the end of
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this uh I guess they call it a support tube but it's more of a square so I
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don't know how exactly that works and that screws in like that so this gives
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some rigidity to the table itself
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here okay so we slide this plate and there's a particular orientation for it
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there's a hole here so that goes towards the front and then what we do is we put
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the screwdriver through that hole with this one screw that came inside that box
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and we we drop it and we put that into this hole right here that's what
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actually keeps the mounting plate in place and keeps it from just completely
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falling away from from this guy besides just its natural animall
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like sex appeal ah there we go now that won't go
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anywhere then we take this guy and we mount it somewhere presumably here
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presumably this way so that this actually reaches you have the option to
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go either way if you want we'll figure this
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out and we're tightening these guys all the way now they want you to screw this
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thing in but it's just like a wire management thing for bringing this wire
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over to the control box um it comes with double-sided tape I'm inclined to sort
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of give it a shot with the double-sided tape and see if it holds out but if it
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really doesn't last then I guess you could always uh screw it on it's not
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Mission critical by any stretch of the imagination so then we can plug this in ah there we
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go they only align they only go in one way they're keyed see there's a little
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thing here that uh only goes in one way so there you go and we
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can ah push those in there not that I'd
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recommend like shacking it like that uh next thing so now there's only one one
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wire that actually goes into the wall so all of our other wires are are managed
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at this point so now we have to install our cross support brace which is g to
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sort of slide on somehow supposedly so
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we'll need a moment for that where' that oh where' that other Allen ke
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go the cross brace isn't too hard because these uh these legs do rotate
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out so you rotate them out then you bring the cross brace in then you rotate
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them in and it's six Allen keys at the
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back in order to actually secure it in
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place once you align them with the hole of course that won work better
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so this piece we fully tighten as we go now they're saying the next piece to
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fully tighten are these uh big guys that are in the side here so we're just going
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to give those the old right okay from
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either side and then that leaves us with the last things to fully tighten being
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the four screws that hold these pieces to the desk itself and I understand now
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why they ask you not to fully tighten them earlier in the process because
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there's a lot of Shifting and settling and adjustment that goes on while you're
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attaching pieces like this that are meant to to guide it and make sure that
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everything is aligned so we're just going to give it a quick tighten down
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here one two three four and then they
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are because you guys are all ergonomically conscious um they make
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sure to tell you hey make sure you have an assistant help you flip the desk over
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into its correct position right side up
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so that you don't you know throw cuz for all the good it's going to do you to uh
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prevent cardiovascular disease if you you know break your back moving your
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desk around then you're not going to be happy about that either so we've got leveler feet that you can just screw
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into the bottom that kind of go like this there we go we've seen those on
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desks before and we are pretty much done so let's do a bit of a demo here with
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the vert desk completely assembled and plugged into the wall
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really so here's what someone like me might use a desk for like this so here
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I'll show you guys the full the full range of the height adjustment is extremely quiet so you can sit very
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comfortably at it here's my chair stands all right and then just pressing the
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button here you can raise it up to a comfortable height where you could use
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it standing up so I might use it for things like product showcases and demos
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and unboxings where some things are small and I'm going to want to have them
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right up here where I can show them to you wow this thing goes really high
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I guess I'm short so I'm only 5'6 so
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it's a it's a little high for me at its very highest uh height but we you know
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if you were actually a reasonable height then of course you need to be able to
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use it as well but I guess that's the point of ergonomic Furniture isn't it so
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german-made motor uh very solid feeling actually even at its full height you can
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see I'm I'm heaving on it a little bit here I've got this probably weighs a
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good sort of 35 40 lb um and it's not
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even sitting actually here it's not even sitting on on the concrete here so the
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uh the feet aren't fully stabilized as well but there you go that's the vert
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you some idea of the speed of the height adjustment as well so it's about 1 inch
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per second according to their specifications