Height adjustable Workshop seat

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Very comfortable with its tractor style bum rest, but too low to work at the Workbench.

Height adjustment is only 1.1/2"

Cannot find any easy means to take it apart in order to extend the lower steel tube that houses the plastic nut that takes the plastic screw.

The distance that the screw is in the tube with the seat at its highest is 4.1/2", so it would be possible to cut the tube and weld a piece in.

Suggestions please.

'Workshop chair' Album added.

Sidetracked once again!

Geoff – Dusting duties later

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Need to make it extend further, but how?

[Brian Rice 1Participant @brianrice1]

I uses bar stool

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

Saw a few inches off the legs on yer bench ?

[Ed DuffnerParticipant @edduffner79357]

Hi Geoff,

I'd imagine that plastic nut is just a push fit in the metal tube. If the seat unscrews all the way out, do you have a bar of suitable diameter to put up through the bottom of the metal tube to push or tap out the nut?

Ed.

 

Edited By Ed Duffner on 26/02/2015 16:54:40

[ASFParticipant @asf]

Put a cushion on it

[speelwerkParticipant @speelwerk]

Raise it by placing extension pieces between the wheels and frame. Niko.

[The Merry MillerParticipant @themerrymiller]

Geoff,

Just a word of warning for you and all others who use a swivel chair with castors in the workshop, just keep it as a chair for the desk.

I had one in my workshop for a while until one day I went to sit on it whilst carrying a heavy load in both hands, and it just shot away from under me, not having a free hand to grab it. It put the fear of ——– into me and I resolved not to have one in my workshop again, I could have caused myself a serious injury if it hadn't been for my lightning reactions

I now have a stool with a height adjustable seat and three sturdy legs, no castors!

Beware!!!!

Len.

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Thanks for the comments, smartarse ones as well Had a good laugh.

The seat does not unscrew thank goodness, or I would have landed on the floor many a time.

Sometimes I need a good kick up the kasaust pipe to make me think again, and Niko did just that!

For some unknown reason I rejected his idea when I first thought of making it higher, without even looking to see how easy/difficult is was to do as he suggested.

I've just unscrewed one of the castors, and they are threaded M10, so suitable spacers of large diameter will be easy.

Len,

I only use it at the Workbench, never when using the machines. Your mishap made me wince.

Geoff – Thank you Niko!

[MalcParticipant @malc]

If you find a suitable method of extending the leg let me know, both mine need extending! Actually it's my own fault, when I built the shed I built the floor far too near my ar……..

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Doesn't matter what machine I've been stood by my a**e has always been too near the floor..so any extensions will be minutely inspected for viability.. mind you at my age it seems to be getting closer to the floor each year..

George

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

The usual problem with floors is that they build them far too low, and each year, as well as my arms getting shorter, the floor gets lower.

Ian S C

[Ed DuffnerParticipant @edduffner79357]

Had a back problem the past couple of weeks, usually brought on by operating the Z axis winding wheel and bending over to look close up at the set-up on the table. I think I need to dig a trench to stand in …and sweep swarf into

[Jesse Hancock 1Participant @jessehancock1]

It can be a problem as that old add-age takes hold. Problem is you can't subtract age.

When the trouble and strife took wing and I adjusted to not having to pander to female wishes I moved the whole shabang or is that shebang (not in dictionary) into the front room, I mean everything. Now when I get tired or ache I just spin round and lie down, watch a bit of tele or have a cup of tea.

No more shed break-ins either

When suitably refreshed I'm back at it without delay unless I want to do something else of course… Well it works for me.

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 02/03/2015 14:05:09

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Jesse,

Green I am not, much that is.

Reminds me of an RSME club member who had every room of his bungalow filled with machines of some sort, including an industrial riveter.

Now that machine made the whole neighbourhood shake, and he upset a few nearby using it at night.

Geoff – Just given the Dobbie a thrashing to clear the DPF with hope.

[Jesse Hancock 1Participant @jessehancock1]

Hi OuBallie, I may have got the idea from a wood working friend of mine. He has a three bed house with just the kitchen,bathroom and one bedroom habitable the rest is given over to wood working.

You can imagine the dusting in there and that's using bags and extraction

I have the lower floor flat with a dear old guy above so I don't start doing anything till 9am and finish at the latest 6pm.

Anecdote: When I first started work he also worked but yards away in the same factory. Travelled 11,000 miles back here from Oz and bumped into an old school friend 10 years later on tour round Blightey. Funny how small the world is.

[“Bill Hancox”Participant @billhancox]

Posted by OuBallie on 26/02/2015 14:44:05:

Very comfortable with its tractor style bum rest, but too low to work at the Workbench.

Suggestions please.

Geoff

A suggestion based on personal painful experience. DO NOT raise the seat so high that you have to slide off the front in order to stand up. That bump on the front of the tractor seat has the potential to modify your genetic profile.

Cheers

Bill

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

Would think a piece of tube inserted from the underside of the support column would push out the plastic threaded bush.

Regards Ian.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by OuBallie on 01/03/2015 11:18:41:

… to make me think again, and Niko did just that!

For some unknown reason I rejected his idea when I first thought of making it higher, without even looking to see how easy/difficult is was to do as he suggested.

I've just unscrewed one of the castors, and they are threaded M10, so suitable spacers of large diameter will be easy.

.

Geoff,

A more stable arrangement might be to make a circular 'skateboard' using the original castors [and whatever thickness of 'board' you need] … and bolt the legs to that, with M10.

… You might even be able to incorporate some storage !!

MichaelG.

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