I tried tensioning more and managed to break the plastic off the bolt on the middle joint

The hinges are held together by very cheap plastic.

They call this a premium boom arm but use cheap plastic parts

Tension dial broke off due to cheap plastic

I have been unable to get the middle joint to remain at any position other than fully extended, even after adjusting the spring to the point where the adjustment knob broke (cheap ABS plastic).

It's held on by cheap plastic and now just rotates freely.

The Mount is solid until it breaks, The Middle Section of the Boom arm has a thumb Tighten Screw which eventually will burst/explode making the whole boom arm un-useableRidiculous that a EXPENSIVE name Brand Boom Arm uses a PLASTIC THREADED TENSION CAP on the MOST VITAL HINGE OF THE ARMLiterally google Broken Boom Arm... there is a guy 3d printing replacments because its so wide spread smh

Plastic seems to damage easy and the arm seems to want to straight itself out regardless of how much I loosen the tension on it.

The clips that hold the cables in the channels are also flimsy plastic, they may break off if you constantly use them or are rough with them

The build is all cheap plastic, and the functionality is just not there

The plastic broke and there is now no way to get tension to try and hold the arm still

There is so much resistance when angling it that it literally flew back the opposite direction and cracked the plastic

From there, they show that they have a cheap looking plastic one on their

Plastic is going to break eventually in my opinion

The arm itself is made out of nice aluminum, but the other parts are pretty crappy plastic

and I use it everyday for work as well as when I play games.

I would not recommend against it as it's a great stand, but I'd keep in mind that you'll have to be more creative with mounting

I have it as loose as it will go without falling out, and it still shoots the arm straight upwards.

so it's as loose as it could be

Mine supports a

Out of the box the product looked promising felt great and appeared to be made out of quality materials however, upon installing my Hyper X Quadcast S which is not a very heavy

Now, my genuine complaint, and it was relatively minor, was that the screw for the c-clamp to mount the the arm to the desk has a rigid and fixed plastic "T" style handle to crank it down

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