On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:20:20 -0700 (PDT), "Dave, I can't do that"
wrote:
Hi All,
For years I have been buying cheap ($30) plastic desk-chair-plastic-thingy that go on the carpet to support the casters. I am 145-lb and the chair probably another 20, so not a great load at best.
But, the mat always makes divots where I mostly position the chair, not ideal but not a real problem until I want to roll a little to one side or an inch or so back. The divots are my home and will not let me have my way.
Recently Amazon had a deal on a chair-plastic-thingy that did not give way to divots so splashed the cash. Amazing stuff, but now I have another problem and are wishing for divots again. The chair no longer stays put in anyone position. It slowly moves wherever my most frequent movement is toward and lately that is backwards. So, I find myself eventually typing at stretched arms length over a five minute period.
I am on the verge of tossing this lovely mat-thingy and going back to a Divot-Master 5000.
snort (after googlinit)
I love the freedom of movement when I want it, but hate the freedom of movement when I don't. I have thought of stitching some Velcro to my jeans leg and gluing the Velcro other half underneath the desktop.
Love the velcro idea. It would give you some exercise, too, getting
stuck and unstuck.
==I think the problem may lie in the 4" shag carpeting you have.==
But -- there has to be a better solution. Yes?
I love the plastic chair mats, and used to buy them until they stopped
honoring the lifetime guarantee and doubled the price to $90. Mine
would crack at the edge, and I had bought the thicker mat for deeper
pile carpet.
If you have a piece of plywood, it would work, or lay some cheap
click-together manufactured wood flooring (or indoor-outdoor carpet)
on top to make it purty.
Or, if you have decent hardwood flooring beneath the carpet, just cut
out a rectangle o' fuzz, pull up the padding, vac 'n wax the floor,
and nail down some metal trim to hold the cut carpet edges.
Or splurge on a more expensive mat.
https://is.gd/zAxe3T or
https://is.gd/eDUeV5 or
https://is.gd/DKvBFj
Or, get out in your shop and make something interesting for
transitioning your chair into a =real= mobile device with 8" pneumatic
casters which wouldn't even feel the carpet.
https://is.gd/pdykZ6
Vroom, Vroom!
--
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full
description of a happy state in this world.
--John Locke