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Hmm. I'm having a problem - bought a new LCD monitor, and now I can't use my TIR. Has anyone come up with a way to affix it in a similar situation? I cannot bend it to clip to the monitor like you would a thinner laptop screen. Any advice would be most appreciated!

You should get the monitor mount.

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Correct.......

An alternative:

I got a thin piece of metal strapping from Home Depot - you know, that stuff with the holes in it that you use to old up plumbing pipes and such... Cut one small piece that's wide enough to span the LCD mounting holes in the back of the monitor. Another piece about 24" or so (whatever length works to extend the camera behind the monitor without hitting the wall).

Use the short monitor mounting screws (you may have to buy some of those too) and some washers to attach the one short piece on the back of the monitor.

Slip the longer piece between the strap and the monitor and then bend it so it protrudes out (and slightly up) from behind the monitor.

This provides a narrow flat place to mount your camera and also gets it a more desireable distance away from you (which effectively gives a wider field of view) so you aren't constantly running out of range of the camera.

I bent the feet of the TIR3 so that it perfectly fits on top of my TFT, see pic below.