Antique Manual Office Chair Repairs 

Thank you, Sir. As a senior woman I love installing casters on cabinets and chairs. That enables me to move my furniture around for cleaning, painting, rearranging, etc. without bothering anyone else for help. I noticed those plastic inserts in the hardware store recently and was wondering about their intended use. I appreciate your instructions for I have an old wooden office chair and a wheel keeps falling out. Now I know how to fix that.

Awesome, I'm so glad I found your website, I love old chairs, now I have an ace in the hole for parts. God bless you

Thank you! One of the legs broke on my very comfortable old swivel office chair. I have the base off and can now go on the hunt for a replacement base. As soon as you pointed out the screw in the "bell", I began to smile.

Thank you for this video! Helped me a lot in adjusting and understanding my grandfather's old chair, still works great.

That was such a help, thank you! I have an old vintage Oak chair I just couldn't bear to throw out. Now I know it can be repaired!

Thank you! This was very helpful. I have a chair like this which needs some TLC. I look forward to taking a closer look at it tomorrow and will definitely check out your site.

Excellent video. I just inherited a vintage bankers chair just like the one in your video except the center post is a slide type not threaded. I need to replace the casters and the thrust bearing. You covered everything I need to do to put this chair back into tip top shape. Thank you so much.

Thank YOU! Thanks for sharing, great video, learned everything I needed.

Thank you for so much valuable info about my vintage office chair!

Awesome video, helped me a ton. Thank you!

Hey I just completed the repair method using the 1" large dowel and it seems to work! Thanks for your help! To get a true small hole I set a (maybe 2 feet square ) piece of plywood on all four legs (with base upside down )to make a false 'floor' upon which I could rest a drill guide that can drill a true perpendicular hole (the one you warned about). This guide method seems to work pretty well. Great guide!

Thank you very much for this helpful explanation. I hope it will help me to renovate the mechanism on the chair I recently purchased, which appears to be stuck in the lowest position.

Super helpful!!! Thank you!!!

Great videos! Thank you. I have a swivel chair to be repaired, but couldn't figure out how to take off/remove the post from the manual base.

Thank you

This man works on chairs like he is angry at them. Good video though!! haha

Great video. I'm hoping you can please help me. I have one of these old wood chairs. I love them. Classic design. But mine just tilts too far forward. The spring to adjust the backward tilt is fine, but it tilts forward so that the front is about 1 or 1.5 inches below level. I keep sliding off it. Is there anything I can do to remedy this?

Hi! This is so good! I have a 1975 Chromcraft office chair that I cannot adjust the height on. The post is within a stainless steel tube, so I can't see what is going on. Is there a way for this great guy to do virtual troubleshooting? Thanks so much.

is there any way to stop a post that isn't welded in from wiggling?

My Hillcrest chair looks similar but had some kind of ball bearing which broke and scatter balls everywhere. I don't know where it was fitted or what size to get. It didn't have a hub liner. Was the bearing instead of this? Please help.

Hi, my chair has no resistance for sitting up right so it just leans all the way back all the time and won’t sit straight anymore. Could you help me with my problem

Thank you ! I am looking for information on how to stop my bankers chair it leans to far back and it will not stay lifted,any suggestions is greatly appreciated .

Thanks for this! Do you have a tutorial on how to adjust the height of one of these types of chairs? That's possible right?

Thank you very much for this excellent video! My chair uses the very same mechanism. The problem I have is that the chair seat leans forward instead of staying level. I tightened the knob at the back as hard as I could but it made no difference. Perhaps I could use a wrench to tighten even more? I'm just not sure whether that has anything to do. Any advice on that?

My very old Bankers chair leans to one side when I sit on it. Is that fixable. Whats your website?

How do I get the web-addresses of suppliers of swivel ball barring plates?

I'm missing something about this video. I have a chair with a mechanism exactly like the one in this video. Tightening the screw in the bell locks the bell to the upper lip on the hub and would prevent the bell from rotating with respect to the hub but the threaded post is not locked and can still rotate within the lower assembly and ends up lowering the chair over time. How do I fix this? There is a thrust washer present with tab in the post slot. There is a hub liner. Many thanks for any suggestions.

I have a W H Gunlocke antique office chair. The sticker on it says 682. The chair sits crooked. I took it all apart and decided that there are many worn places. I would like to replace the hardware. Do you have a source?

does anybody know what those plastic inserts are called ?

Hi, I've got a 1930's hillcrest chair that has a mechanism just like the one in this video, but it has a broken bell. Would you have a replacement bell with the little screw? If so please let me know and I'll contact you via your Website to arrange purchase etc.

And does anybody know where in EU to buy these mechnisms ?

do you have a video on getting the squeaks out?

Great - so thorough. But it looks like it's going to cost way more than the chair to upgrade all those parts. I for sure need the new machanism, because the weld broke, and the chair is tilting side to side and all the way front and back. I'll find your phone number. (Maybe I can get it welded if I can get all the parts off?)

How would I take the grip rings out if they don't just fall out

Could u let me know you website as I need parts. Thank you

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