Bought a set of four patio chairs with aluminum frames. The right-front leg on one chair is welded about 5 degrees inward.

Thought I'd buy a dowel and try to gently press the leg into position. Better ideas out there?

On Sun, 4 May 2014 19:31:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Bought a set of four patio chairs with aluminum frames. The right-front leg on one chair is welded about 5 degrees inward.

Thought I'd buy a dowel and try to gently press the leg into position. Better ideas out there?

Exchange it at the store.

If there was no store, or the store only had those four, I doubt if this
can be done successfully. But I think I'd fill the whole tube (Is it
a tube?) with sand and cap it to keep the sand in,, lay the leg over a
barrel or something with the curve you want, and push with my hands and
arms and body.

In theory, if you can find or make something with the curve you want to
bend it over (or something straight if it's too curved now.) you might
not need the sand, but since I doubt this will work, I'd pull out all
the precautionary stops for all the early tries, meaning I'd use the
sand. It will keep the tube from collapsing where it bends or bending
too much at one place.

On Sun, 04 May 2014 22:49:29 -0400, micky
wrote:

On Sun, 4 May 2014 19:31:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Bought a set of four patio chairs with aluminum frames. The right-front leg on one chair is welded about 5 degrees inward.

Thought I'd buy a dowel and try to gently press the leg into position. Better ideas out there?

Exchange it at the store.

If there was no store, or the store only had those four, I doubt if this
can be done successfully. But I think I'd fill the whole tube (Is it
a tube?) with sand and cap it to keep the sand in,, lay the leg over a
barrel or something with the curve you want, and push with my hands and
arms and body.

In theory, if you can find or make something with the curve you want to
bend it over (or something straight if it's too curved now.) you might
not need the sand, but since I doubt this will work, I'd pull out all
the precautionary stops for all the early tries, meaning I'd use the
sand. It will keep the tube from collapsing where it bends or bending
too much at one place.

BTW, I had a hard time picturing the problem and what you wanted. Maybe
a better description would yield a better answer.

Conduit bender.

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Bought a set of four patio chairs with aluminum frames. The right-front leg on one chair is welded about 5 degrees inward.

Thought I'd buy a dowel and try to gently press the leg into position. Better ideas out there?

Get a good lawyer.

Have someone of my capabilities sit in the chair.

Dial 911

My lawyer will talk to your lawyer who will talk to the stores lawyer who
will talk to the manufacturers lawyer who will talk...

My head hurts already. What's your lawyers number?

--
Tekkie

On 5/4/2014 10:31 PM, wrote:
Bought a set of four patio chairs with aluminum frames. The right-front leg on one chair is welded about 5 degrees inward.

Thought I'd buy a dowel and try to gently press the leg into position. Better ideas out there?

I've never had much success rebending aluminum
tube chairs. I'd be very concerned that the
chair will collapse at some future date. Most
likely while seating someone over weight and
lacking in humor, who has a pit bull for an
attorney.

"I think I better think it out again"

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wrote:
Bought a set of four patio chairs with aluminum frames. The right-front leg on one chair is welded about 5 degrees inward.

Thought I'd buy a dowel and try to gently press the leg into position. Better ideas out there?

Hi,
If you change the original design by doing some thing like that,
it may compromise the stability of the chair when some one specially
heavy person sits on it. Speaking from an experience.

On 5/4/2014 10:31 PM, wrote:
Bought a set of four patio chairs with aluminum frames. The right-front leg on one chair is welded about 5 degrees inward.

Thought I'd buy a dowel and try to gently press the leg into position. Better ideas out there?

Had the same problem with a cheap table and chair set from Big Lots ...
made in China, of course. One chair had one leg a little off. I
thought they were aluminum, but yesterday, because of your post, I got
out the old magnet and checked ... the magnet stuck. When I bought them
4 years ago, and put everything together (I guess that makes them made
in NC!), one chair wobbled. As I said the leg was maybe 10 degrees off.
I gently pushed on it with sharp impulses and eventually it was ok.
YRMV. We use the set once or twice a day during good weather and they
still seem to be holding up.

On 5/7/2014 9:28 AM, Art Todesco wrote:
On 5/4/2014 10:31 PM, wrote:
Bought a set of four patio chairs with aluminum frames. The
right-front leg on one chair is welded about 5 degrees inward.

Thought I'd buy a dowel and try to gently press the leg into position.
Better ideas out there?

Had the same problem with a cheap table and chair set from Big Lots ...
made in China, of course. One chair had one leg a little off. I
thought they were aluminum, but yesterday, because of your post, I got
out the old magnet and checked ... the magnet stuck. When I bought them
4 years ago, and put everything together (I guess that makes them made
in NC!), one chair wobbled. As I said the leg was maybe 10 degrees off.
I gently pushed on it with sharp impulses and eventually it was ok.
YRMV. We use the set once or twice a day during good weather and they
still seem to be holding up.
Replying to my own post, I forgot to mention, it was not round tubular
steel legs, but they are sort of rectangular ... about 1 1/4" by about
3/8", with the 1 1/4" side slightly rounded outward.