Sell it, get a powermac, LCD, and adjustable arm.

Yea well theres no simple way of doing that... I've never opened one up but I'd assume it has a special sort of cable running through the neck which would not be easy to make longer.
Plus theres the issue of making a stand for the now loose screen....

Anyhow it would be far too complex to be worth it. Plus it would likely irreversibly damage the iMac...

I'd suggest you get a Mac Mini and run an LCD on it.

Hi there,

I would have to agree that this would be a bad idea.

If you go to the following link and besure to download BOTH parts of the documentation, you will find out how difficult this really is, and the resultant parts may not be to your purpose.

http://www.eserviceinfo.com/downloa...l,%201GHz).html

Good Luck!

-Cornell

Regardless, thanks for that link. Holy crap will that site be useful for a lot of projects.

Also, all of the other suggestions involve a thing I do not have which is called money. This project has a budget of $0.00, so unless I could sell the iMac for the exact cost of a mini and LCD, then they aren't workable.

But again, thanks for the link.

no problem man. I understand the dilemna, the nature of computers and electronics i suppose. You've taken on a difficult challenge.

The documentation available there for most consumer electronics is amazing, i do have to admit.

I agree for your purposes, the mini-LCD option really isn't an option.

I have taken the neck off an iMac before, and I would seriously not recommend it. There are a bunch of wires in there, 3 or 4, and they won't be easily extended. Like the video signal cable and the inverter cable. I almost assure you that the cost of this project will be a broken iMac.

Ive also cracked open (well, almost literally) an Imacs 'neck'. There are a few wires running through with VERY little slack in them. The only feasible way i see to extend them would be to cut then and resolder them each individually. Like GSixZero said - there are 3 or 4 visible cables, but within each cable there are several lines that would each need to be extended/reconnected (if you've ever cut into a VGA or DVI cable, you know how amazingly difficult this would be).

What might be easier is to extend them at the connection points - either at the motherboard or at the monitor. I never dug deep enough to see how they connect, but I can almost guarantee its still near the realm of humanly impossible.

Come to think of it - you might be able to do this a bit easier if you had a 2nd imac that was totally junk. You could have to literally destroy it and pull its monitor cabling out and use that as the extention... but if you have that kinda money to burn, I like powertrippin's advice better.

My original advice of cutting/brute force extending ill go ahead and throw into the non-possible bend. The 2nd monitor wiring (maybe you could get a dead imac for cheap) is a possibility, but you would need the pinouts of each end of the cable and a LOT of spare time.

(were the pinouts in that file posted earlier? That site is locked from downloading here at work)