On 10/18/2011 10:29 PM, Robert Green wrote:
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I generally buy mine at auctions or garage sales. and try to keep 1-2
spares on hand, for when the main one gets wobbly. Stand facing chair
place one hand on each arm rest, and rock side to side. If you can feel
slop, move on.

We've got a used office furniture warehouse here in DC that's been crammed
to the gills lately as businesses all over town close up shop. I picked up
a high back desk chair with what look like real walnut arms for $10 (it had
some muck on the seat I had to clean off with solvent) and 3 legal Fireking
2 drawer file cabinets for $75 each. Getting them up the stairs was quite a
chore (they only do curbside or loading dock delivery). I used a handtruck
and an electric winch and a friend and it still was nearly impossible.
They're lined with concrete. I've been able to keep my favorite office
chair alive through two base transplants. Chairs take an awful lot of
repetitive stress at the post& plate.

This is a good reminder to check all the plates for wear. You can break
your neck if it fails in precisely the wrong way. Fortunately, the two
times it's happened to me it was just a nasty surprise.

--
Bobby G.



Got the base welded back together today. Will delegate it as a
spare part time use chair from now on.