OT: Looking for the Best Swivel Recliner for Computer Workstation
D from BC
(Just comfy not handicapped...)
The seat support fabric is ripping. :(
(Bought used for $15.00)
It's time to get a new recliner for the computer station..
Favorites so far.
http://www.amazon.com/Microfiber-Swivel-Glider-Recliner-Ottoman/dp/B000NMADYI
$160.69
http://www.everyrecliner.com/Wildon-Home-750X-CST1291.html
$259.00
A dental chair (Just for fun.)
Ebay item : 370289808582
$225
A Herman Miller ifyouhave$$$$$chair
http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/35-h-lounger-combines-modern-technology-with-ergonomic-comfort/
(I hate pages that don't allow to click back.)
A sleek chair but I see no swivel in the mechanics.
Anybody been down this route and what did you get?
Rich Grise
I went to the store and bought the most comfortable one on the showroom
floor. Only your own ass knows which chair is right for you.
If your goal is to save money, you could (a) duct tape the rip in your
existing chair, or (b) start shopping around at thrift stores and
liquidators.
I lucked into a captain's chair once - a little office a few doors down
from mine was clearing out, and they were intending to toss the chair.
So, keep your goal in mind, and just drive around (or walk, or bike, or
whatever) and keep your eyes open. :-)
Good Luck!
Rich
Baron
Why not just get it re-upholstered. Would probably be much less costly
and you are familiar with it.
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Best Regards:
Baron.
D from BC
I want to see if I can do better.
My current chair doesn't swivel on bearings..
Here's the most expensive chair I've seen so far.
Zero Gravity Chair
Ebay 120484747922
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120484747922
$1699US
Yikes!
But no swivel :(
mi...@sushi.com
> I sit in a recliner at my computer workstation.
> (Just comfy not handicapped...)
> The seat support fabric is ripping. :(
> (Bought used for $15.00)
>
> It's time to get a new recliner for the computer station..
>
> $160.69
>
> http://www.everyrecliner.com/Wildon-Home-750X-CST1291.html
> $259.00
>
> A dental chair (Just for fun.)
> Ebay item : 370289808582
> $225
>
> (I hate pages that don't allow to click back.)
> A sleek chair but I see no swivel in the mechanics.
>
> Anybody been down this route and what did you get?
"Space" makes nice office chairs. More than your typical Chinese
stuff, but not as silly as Herman Miller.
<http://www.sit4less.com/products-1/office-star/space-29008-headrest-
black-leather/129>
Sit4less does not live up to it's name, but it's a good place to look.
I just got a basic Space chair, not this model. If you have a Costo
office center, they should stock a few chairs from Space. Actually,
mine was made in Taiwan.
Mycelium
wrote:
My lab chair at work has about eight levers on it and about three knobs
for lumbar bump, etc. I think it is ESD compliant, and the seat pad is
over 4 inches thick and a bit firm, but built to last for at least twenty
years compared to most of the crap I see out there.
The nicest thing about it is that it has six instead of four larger
diameter, dual wheel per caster casters. That last one is very important
if one pulls away from one's desk a lot.
In the lab, one slight kick on the floor, and this chair can roll 20
feet with ease. The little shit chairs we had required labor to simply
move the distance of each leg pull.
I think this bastard was over $300 though. It has so many adjustments
that make it one of the best quality chairs I have ever had. It is funny
that a lot of the office personnel are using those black, net backed
chairs that have zero adjustment capabilities, yet are like $500 each.
Comsumers and purchasing folks are strange animals.Some buy shit tagged
as Gold, and others simply know what quality engineered products are.
Probably why I never put any stock into the upstart brands that wanted
to compete with Sony and Pioneer back in the seventies on stereo
receivers. I would never buy a "Technics" receiver, and there were others
that are now bigger brands as a result of the seventies and eighties
consumer electronics boom.
Now, we get companies like Coby that get into the game by selling total
shit. Now, they have some products that are good, but mostly still total
cheap shit full of cut corners where it counts.
MeowSayTongue
<baron....@linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote:
The chair I am sitting in is from the 50s. It has a cast iron (but
Nickel plated) back that connects the back with the seat. It had already
been re-upholstered once before, but I want to go get one of these
Mexican custom car shops to re-do the seat. The bad parts of it are the
screw shaft, which is ugly and clunky to use, and the base construction,
which only uses like a 1.5 inch wheel on each caster. I wish I could
incorporate the back and plated arm into a more modern base portion.
It is the style of metal work one used to see on old dentist or barber's
chairs. Pretty cool.
Meow
Mycelium
wrote:
It isn't even worth $400.
You could put the entire chair on a big 'lazy susan'.
Mycelium
<mi...@sushi.com> wrote:
>http://www.sit4less.com/products-1/office-star/space-29008-headrest-
>black-leather/129>
That looks like the same caster base as the one I have at work. Perhaps
that is the brand we were looking at. I'l check today at work.
baron
Ouch ! That a pain in the butt (wallet) (*)
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Best Regards:
Baron.
D from BC
<baron....@linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote:
I dunno if my crappy chair deserves an elegant fix..
The seat support of my chair is stretched fabric (buck hammock?) which
is ripping.
So..
Pulled out the fabric and replaced it with...duct tape..
Good enough until I find a better chair..
*Inspired by duct tape experiments done on Mythbusters.
D from BC
Yup..
I can design a knock-off and I'm guessing a shop make the mechanics
for less than $200..
Slap on some covered memory foam and it's up around $400.00.
Mycelium
wrote:
Two big delrin thrust washers (four actually) for the rim of the
platform and 'bumper ring', and the lazy suzan bearing underneath would
be all you would need. Slop some food grade lube on the faces of the rim
bearings and you're off to the races.
Baron
I did that trick once ! I had an armchair with an elastic web support
for the cushion. The webbing failed over a period and I used
duct/gaffer tape to make a repair. Alas the chair is no more ! It got
replaced by a cheap (Argos) typists swivel chair.
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Best Regards:
Baron.
D from BC
<myce...@thematrixattheendofthemushroomstem.org> wrote:
>
> Two big delrin thrust washers (four actually) for the rim of the
>platform and 'bumper ring', and the lazy suzan bearing underneath would
>be all you would need. Slop some food grade lube on the faces of the rim
>bearings and you're off to the races.
'rim of the platform'?
Is that about the mechanics for the recline position?
D from BC
<baron....@linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote:
It's a bit iffy using duct tape in this app.
I'm sitting on 2 layers(crossed) duct tape stretched across 2ft x 2ft.
If I got primo duct tape.. I expect no failure.
Mycelium
wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:58:41 -0800, Mycelium
A round plywood disk, carpeted out to all but the last two or three
inches from the outer edge on the interior side is the 'platform. or
'base', which is perhaps more correct, since it is down near the ground.
The outer three inches, or, 'the rim' would have a one inch wide by say
0.062 inch thick ring of Delrin or Teflon pasted to the underside of it.
You build a round ring that sits on the floor at the outer 'rim'
diameter, which provides a 'step' for the 'base' 'rim' to sit on. It
doesn't bear the weight of the chair, the lazy Susan bearing underneath
does that. It just keeps the thing sitting level. You carpet the
outside of that ring with the same treatment as the base, and then
captivate it by putting another Delrin face on the other side of 'the
rim' of 'the base'. Then, my original direction made in the previous
post makes sense. Platform is now 'base'.
Baron
Actually thinking about what you said earlier, you could use canvas to
replace the seat support and have a nice new cushion to go on top.
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Best Regards:
Baron.