How to Replace an Office Chair Cylinder
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Does your old office chair sag and sink throughout the day? It could be time to replace your gas cylinder. Check out our OfficeChairs.com exclusive DIY video to find out how simple it can be!
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Without this video you would never think this cylinder was even possible to remove so thank you for that. But let me detail a few things that I had to do to remove the cylinder. First if your chair has any age on it, it's very likely it won't be removed anywhere near as easy as the video shows. My chair was 7 yrs old. Forget the pipe clamp, I had to use vice grips. I tried to protect the cylinder with a rag and all it did was slide. So I made the vice grips as tight as possible to limit the damage to the cylinder. Before turning, I had to soak the cylinder in WD40 and wait a half hour. I was finally able to start turning the cylinder but it still was no where near coming off. I had to take a rubber mallet and hit the old mechanism in an absolute rage before it finally came off. I'm talking like 40 hits to this. Just giving everyone a heads up of what to expect. Truthfully, it's best to do this immediately after someone pisses you off.
Maybe that fit young thing is really really strong?
Your experience is far far more real world then this totally fake video.
@@BillOweninOttawa They should have filmed it using Arnold Schwarzenegger. Actually, not really a good ad to show that their chairs need to be fixed.....
I had to go full "Mad Max" with a hammer and WD-40 to get my old cylinder out but it worked. Thanks!
Ya, I'd LOVE to see you try and remove the gas cylinder on my chair with a couple "simple" taps with that rubber mallet. I've used my CAR JACK to try and separate the cylinder from either the base or the mechanism, without luck.
Have you tried WD-40? It wasn't working for me either until I used WD-40. That stuff works like magic!
lmfao
wanted to tell the same.. i havent seen any of the cylinders to come out that easy.. hmmer it from another side is more efficient
@@BrJcenalock Tried it, made no difference.
I thought about the car jack too! Fortunately getting really assertive with the pipe wrench did it for me (for both attachment points)
"how to remove a cylinder - if you've never sat in the chair" should be the title
Thus the pipe wrench/channel locks
This video was an enormous help - I could not get the piston out of the chair base and went to the disassembly method. The piston was so stuck (14 year old chair) - I tried WD-40 and no luck. I tried the pipe wrench no luck. After a couple of hours and then watching the video I tried some Liquid Wrench (with chair seat assembly upside down) and then used the pipe wrench with a heavy mallet - 3 strikes and it came out. Thank you for showing me how it is assembled, and how to get it apart and replaced.
Great demonstration with the exception of that stubborn cylinder that would not come out.
I had to hammer it with a large "real" hammer for over 5 minutes spraying DW4 and finally got flying out of its space.
Installing the new one and all is well.
But the demo helped me to know that I am not doing anything wrong in trying to remove this stubborn cylinder.
Thanks
If you can't get it out, bash the piston with a hammer on two sides to make it have two flat edges, then an adjustable spanner will get hold of it and allow you to rotate it and loosen it.
I laughed out loud when I watched this video! Anyone who has ever tried to replace a gas cylinder on an office chair knows why. Also that is a set of adjustable pliers, not a pipe wrench. This was a great comedy video, thank you!
Yes, it's a joke :) I managed to detach the base using Thor's hammer. Now I'm destroying the chair with adjustable pliers and hammer while trying to remove it from the mechanism and the bastard won't come off... I wanted a taller chair. Now I have no chair. Let's see what happens tomorrow...
Yes - and why do they show a petite girl taking it apart with ease - I'm 15t and about to give up and buy a new chair LOL
This just helped me 9 years later! thanks heaps!
This is great information!, all previous videos I watched required a pipe wrench, but the tip to unscrew the base and then hit with the mallet to remove the cilinder was gold!, thanks a lot!
Took a little more elbow grease to remove cylinder from seat but it was not very tough at all. I have used this chair for about four years usually between 12-20 hours a day. Yes, I sit a lot in my work. Thank you for the best cylinder replacement video on the internet! It was helpful viewing both ways to remove it from the base and seat. Great job!
Thank you for this video! I didn't have a pipe wrench or a mallet, but wrapped a hammer in a towel and was able to use it to remove both ends of the cylinder. I'd tried 3 other videos before this one, and the techniques in this video were the only ones that worked.
Use of the pipe wrench is critical information - it was hard and I don't think I would have succeeded without your great instructional video. Thank you!
Who needs a pipe wrench, car jack hydraulic press when you have this girl?
I followed these directions and they worked PERFECTLY! Thanks for the video!
hard to believe that its so easy to order and replace one of those cylinders with an even heavier weight bearing cylinder... I love it !! thank you so much!! for approx 25.00 I saved having to buy a new chair !! thank you!
I want to thank everyone here in the comments who have saved me from the fool's errand of trying to remove the cylinders from not one, but two chairs!
from this day forward, I'm going to read YT comments. I rarely ever did before.
Outstanding!. Thank you so much for this how to video!. you just saved me several hundred bucks!
I can understand all the negative comments about how easy it was, but it really helped me.
My chair is brand new though, so I just wanted to take off the safety from the cylinder (which I dumbly forgot there when I first built it). So thank you for the video :)
No way that cylinder came out that easy....... LOL
I just took a break from beating the Be-Jesus out of mine and it still won't budge.
tHAT'S WHat sHE SaID
@@Carl-LaFong1618 Yeaa exactly WTF ive been smashing mine for what seems like hours
Obviously they made it look easier for the demo. Otherwise the video would have last one hour.
She is not that easy too... LOL
Very helpul video. Once I knew from the video that nothing else the cylinder on both ends, I hit it with great focus until it came off. No WD 40, pipe wrench or mallet, just regular hammer and determination 😀
This was great! Ok, a little more difficult than you demonstrated, BUT I was able to get it apart and this was the best video I found. Thanks!
Thank you. Your help was perfect. Saved me from having to buy a new chair. Thank you very much.
I TRIED TO DO THIS WITH MY CHAIR CYLINDER WON'T COME OUT NO MATTER HOW HARD I HIT THE THING
So all cylinders are the same size?? Got an office chair leaking now but have no idea what kind it is or where it came from.
Thankyou for your guidance, to know I was trying to remove it correctly sure helps. But I had to use a real hammer and a piece of 1x3 wood,, I hammered the heck out of it with LOTS of WD 40, and it finally came off.
My experience shared as a note of caution. It's not always easy:
I just did my older high quality desk chair. It took 2 days. The bottom wheel carriage came off easily enough I guess, but then......
I soaked the part that goes to seat portion in Wd and PB Blaster, No Joy, and I have a large 18" pipe wrench. Tried it again after soaking overnight. No joy. I was putting so much force on it I was afraid I'd break the rest of the chair. I then removed the seat adjustment mechanism from the seat and put it in a large heavy vice so I could hold it in place better. No joy. Then I clamped the cylinder in the vice and tried a HF hydraulic spreader to try and pop it off while wailing on it first with a dead blow, then with a 4lb sledge, but no joy. I went back to the internet thinking maybe mine was bolted or welded on, but no. Finally, I took some of the more fragile parts off of the mechanism took it out side, placed a board on the ground and placed it on the board and then used the front end loader on my tractor to hold it down. I then put a 4' cheater pipe on the pipe wrench handle and gave it everything I had. Joy!!! My chair is now fixed and works great again. All you need is a tractor with a front end loader and a few thousand pounds of weight and 4' pipe wrench and 220lbs of fat man and it comes right off as easy as pie.
love this video. thanks for sharing
My column is really stuck and doesn't stick out the bottom like this chair. I use rubber mallet, small hammer and normal hammer. The lifter came out but column is still stuck. I have used penetrating oil but still stuck. I'm trying to avoid replacing the base. Any suggestions?
How to really remove the cylinder. Done just now....
1. Follow Video step by step and swear a lot.
2. Hit base at the center of each leg to loosen up. Watch all the castors fly around the room and fail to move it.
3. Turn chair upside down and put the base only on a L shaped surface. Whack the center spot repeatedly with a rubber mallet until the chair falls off the base onto the floor.
4. Return to video and get a pipe wrench and apply force. Then more force. Then more in both directions. Look for WD40 and give up because its hiding.
5. Hit the cylinder with a rubber mallet at the N-S-E-W points to loosen up and fail.
6. Get the pipe wrench out again and put it in a position you can put all 16 stone (220lbs+) of weight against the end of this for 30 seconds+ and watch it move and cheer.
7. Throw the old one in the bin!
8. Actually apply grease to the chair, not oil at the base and top of cylinder.
9. Put the cylinder in place and clean hands/surfaces from grease.
10. Remove the cylinder when you remember you missed the plastic inserts that go around the silver parts
11. Wipe grease from all hands/surfaces/floor the cylinder touched.... again.
12. Sit on the chair and enjoy the non sinking feeling
#13, pop open a can of beer !
Are these kits sold in different lengths and sizes? Can I measure my cylinder or do most kits fit most chairs?
Applying a ton of WD-40 and whacking away with a hammer may have helped but I had to keep the base screwed into the chair while I leaned all my weight on top of the chair and then force a pipe wrench with the power of a thousand suns to rotate the gas lift and then I was able to finally get it out.
I would like to know if all gas cylinders are universal, if I just can swap one with another...
Are these gas cylinders interchangeable for all similar chairs?
You don't have a pipe wrench, and you don't know it. Those are "slip joint pliers." I also have to agree with others....you are demonstrating on a chair no one has ever sat in. That's why it is so easy to disassemble.
And you don't know what are "slip joint pliers." The tool the lady is using is "groove joint," "tongue and groove," or "channel lock" pliers. Totally different tool than slip joint pliers. Here's a link to "slip joint pliers" to help you out...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_joint_pliers And by the way, could you post a link to your video demonstrating the repair of the office chair? Thanks.
She's a broad. Of course she doesn't know what tool she's holding.
I don't have a mallet or a gently, can I madly wail on it with a hammer, instead?
Helped me out. Thank you!
Thanks for this. Needed the WD40 and the trick was to put weight on the chair with force to oppose the force from the mallet hitting the chair's base.
Needed a a computer chair. I used to have one but it was thrown out in a move last summer. Been using all fall and spring a kitchen chair. I am back to it again. Tonight the new computer chair bought at a used good store by ,my folks broke. The valve fell off and the chair collapsed. I went from being very high up to under the table. Then the parts fell off. I was just sitting on it. Applied no pressure. The valve tubes look damaged. When I attempted to put it back together it was crooked and the plastic casing was damaged and looked both bent and broken. Only had the damn thing three weeks. Likely fix or replace. I prefer replacing it as in getting a new one but having another family member take a look at it tomorrow. I guess I need to go with them if they aim to get a new one or I go buy it on my own.
If you can't get it out, bash the piston with a hammer on two sides to make it have two flat edges, then an adjustable spanner will get hold of it and allow you to rotate it and loosen it.
I'm about to assemble a new chair. Is there anything I can do to the gas lift before fitting it so in a few years time (hopefully several years) when if fails removing it will be easier?
it's been a few years, how'd it work out?
@@lifearies989 eww anime
Been pounding on my cylinder for four days and it won't detach from the wheels section. I tried everything, including using a wood block and a framing hammer. Two years + three hundred lb. man = that cylinder is basically welded-in at this point.
Mine was doing this it's so annoying went and bought a brand new chair it's still doing it llf think it's now the weight of me! I'm up to 17st after the pandemic need get back to gym they must have a 17st weight capacity!?
Dad used to work on pay workers at dervo
[pressed the red button] "That was easy!"
My chair has been sat on by an elephant, I think, as the cylinder won't budge, even with WD-40.
Try WD-800
Yeah, it is of course a complete fiction that it's THAT easy! While I was pleasantly surprised to be able to confirm that the PRINCIPLE should work on both my otherwise dead chairs (i.e. just buy new pistons, not complete chairs) nothing I have tried so far can shift EITHER end of one of them, nor the seat end of the other. If your chair is old enough to have this problem, then you'll likely have to source some industrial explosives to get the old piston out - and I think that will end up being more expensive than a new chair!
Pipe wrench + hammer. Takes a while but I got there eventually. Extreme frustation instantly transforms to joy!
how do i just fix the cylinder?
Mine does not remove that easily. I let WD40 sit for 10 minutes, then put a pipe wrench on the cylinder and hit the wrench with a 4 lb sledge hammer several times.
If you don't have a magic pipe wrench, some C4 molded around the mechanism will do the trick. Be sure to wear safety glasses before detonating.
Nice repairing
those are channel locks, not a pipe wrench.
Nothing but God above lead me here. O googled remove cylinder adn this is the EXACT chair type I need to remove.
Just to help anyone here who was struggling like me, I took the wheel casters off the feet, so that I could use the ground as leverage when beating the hell out of it for a few minutes.. with the help of wd40
did you use a regular hammer or a rubber hammer?
This wont woke from I found the best way is to undo the 4 screws and using a hammer pound the old one out Wd 40 some times works in stopping it
how much are they ?
No one has sat in this chair.
thanks tuts
I've got a chair this might be useful on but I question the ease she mentions it can be done. Especially when she doesn't even know the tools she is using, referring to a pair of channel locks as a pipe wrench. If she doesn't know what tools she is using I don't think she knows what she is doing but is a simple attractive face with a script trying to fill in to do the job of a knowledgeable repair person.
One, it's way harder to knock the cylinder out than that looks, and two, that's not even a pipe wrench.
THANK YOU FOR EXPLANATION.
probably the hottest video I've ever seen
Hammering the base off worked, but not nearly so easily. "A couple of light taps" is incorrect. WD40 and whaling away with a mallet, alternating legs is more like it. And the top of the cylinder? Use a genuine 18" pipe wrench (and not slip joint pliers like she's using). Fairly cheap at Home Depot (you don't need the premium one).
الفديو تم اعداده سلفآ وهذه ليست الحقيقة الكرسي بعد الاستخدام لا يمكن فكه بهذه الطريقة
I just did it and it works. However..... I know my way around a hammer and stuck parts, I used tons of WD40 while hitting like a maniac all around the cylinder in order to unstuck it. Took me about 15 minutes to do the operation on both ends, and I have been hitting so f*****g hard, for so long, that there are bits of rubber from my hammer everywhere in the room :D
Now I applied some oil to both ends before re-mounting the stuff. It's annoying at first because the cylinder might pop out as soon as you lift the chair (in the beginning at least - I predict that putting my weight on it for a few weeks will force it inside hard enough). Next time, it should be much easier to remove though.
Yea, no. NO WAY her bunny tappy-taps would ever remove the thing :) (Unless these chairs have pre-greased cylinders on the ends, just enough so that it doesn't pop up every time you move it)
May require penetrating oil like Liquid Wrench, and hitting the wrench with the mallet
Now do this on a chair that two years old. See how far you get blondie. XD
You guys are doing it wrong. We need HER mallet. I have a 2-year-old chair and my 6-ton car jack and WD 40 managed to rip the piston bottom from the clip....
Bullshit. I had to channel my inner Thor like powers to get the one on my chair off.
For those people thinks that this doesn't work, well of course you'll have to consider the type of your office chair but most of all office chairs have the same mechanics and functionalities. And if your'e tired of working on it, dude/girl, try to put first WD-40 or any lubricants before to work on it then you need to hit it gently with a mallet/hammer until the cylinder removes. Don't do it forcefully or else, the cylinder port below of the office chair breaks down.
By the way, I like her. She's so gorgeous. My regards to you miss.
Yes I've tried this, got the spare cylinder but can't get the old cylinder out. And no WD40 doesn't make any difference.
OK, it is NOT as easy as shown here but don't give up. Spray LOTS of WD-40. Let it sit. Beat on it with a mallet. Repeat. It takes a LOT of repeats but I finally got mine to come apart.
Instead of hitting the base with a rubber mallet, my mom just hit the cylinder from the bottom with a metal hammer and it came out instantly hahaha.
That is NOT a pipe wrench, it is channel lock pliers.
i don't know what the other comments are talking about. it was super easy to remove with your perfectly explained video. in fact I used a knocking technique, you know like i knocked on a door but instead it was this chairs cylinder detaching from the chair. in fact I believe the flicking technique would have probably worked too but unfortunately I started with the knocking technique. hammers are completely unneccessary. people who use hammers are yikes
Says pipe wrench.....grabs channel locks lol oops
Pro Tip: WD40 or Penetrating Catalyst FIRST. Take the casters off (I blasted mine across the living room) damn near killed the cat. Channel locks worked dreamy. Beating the bottom with a mallet finally separated from the chair base. 15 mins, done. 20 year old chair.
get bent. that stuff does not come apart that easily. Im 200 lbs and practically threw my back out doing it with just a pair of channel locks
And remember, not to buy aftermarket cylinders cause... exploding chairs :)
It is not possible to remove the cylinder in 2 mins like what she did. Just no way. I have a 10 years older herman miller aeron chair and I have a mallot, a wd-40 and 18 inch pipe wrench. I spent a whole night to punch this heavy stuff and failed to take the cylinder out.
I wish the video would have been made on a 2 years of use chair, then the video would have been 48 mins long.
LOL. The one phrase she conveniently omitted was "brute force" (with a blunt object).
@@AntiCoruptionCentral I tried yesterday to replace the cylinder, I'm continuing today.
@@RodovalPTY Still going at it after 12 months?
@@AntiCoruptionCentral Hi, we meet again. It took me hours that time. Today, I went again on the journey to replace another cylinder from another chair, same thing like 2 hours , it took every ounce of energy I had, its amazing how years of usage the metal can embed in the plastic and make it so hard to remove.
I was gonna comment and say she’s never took a used one off but there is already 69 comments saying this
Commwealth helped
they do these demos with freshly built & never used chairs, so when your big ass tries to gently tap the cylinder that has been shoved in the mechanism through hours of you sitting on it, like she does in the video, it probably won't work right away.
Bruh would this break the piston? Cause I forgot to put the piston cover thing on and it looks retarded
They have to make it look easy otherwise it will be like Ralph Kramden, Chef of da Future. It's fine. All I need to know. Thanks.
of course we replace the cylinder on a new chair ! so blonde lol
It's like the "how to clean your air fryer videos" everyone is doing it in new fryers lols. What a nightmare
Thats not a pipe wrench. Those are channel locks / pliers. A pipe wrench is a big long wrench with a nut to adjust the teeth up and down also know as a monkey wrench. The little wrenches that are adjustable is called an adjustable wrench or crescent wrench. Just so you know. (Plumber for most of my life)
We need more videos from this cute chick
Ya
The way you demonstrated it, you could have tapped the top bracket off the cylinder WITH the seat still attached. Removing it from the seat did nothing for the way you separated them.
Hhhmm, "authorities."
Solution: Don't buy bad products in the first place
I would like to agregate that this is just teoric stuff and has nothing to do with the real struggle of the process.
Muy linda chica
LOL - other videos are more honest. That chair was pulled to bits before filming. You have the bash the crap out of it to get it out in real life..
Meanwhile in another video a tough guy did the replacement hard way and broke his finger th-cam.com/video/ng0xneIT8hI/w-d-xo.html
Got caught on bed coner need to move tv
....Lady, tha pedestal was already loose, I spent 1/2 hour with channel locks, plumbers wrench and a hammer, sorry this demo pissed me off, bunch of crap to make it look easy....
this is staged.. 0:46 it was loose to begin with
Directions: beat on bottom of chair for half an hour. Then get sick of it and throw POS chair away.
Come on guys quit being so harsh. I dont know how old this young lady is but try to be constructive with issues you may have. Especially with one so young. Doing these videos is not so simple. She will improve.
Now to the presenter: First it has been a few years since you first did this and I am sure that you presentation knowledge has improved. You came across good. You were bright and understanding and spoke with a good voice and did not use the words "UMM", or "AND" a thousand times. There was no dead air and that is great. If you are going to use technical terms please be sure of the terms you are using. Yes you did not have a 'pipe wrench' you had a slip joint pliers or in some parts of the world a 'water pump wrench' among other names. If you are using a new item please point that out to the viewer. If you have pre loosened things also tell the viewer. It makes them feel that you are trying to pull something over on them when they know very well that what you did is not near that simple.
Thank you for an informative video that did help me get mine apart. I was sure I was doing something wrong because it just would not come apart. I had to apply far, far more pressure that you did but at least I knew that I was doing it correctly.
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They are actually "groove joint" or "channel lock" pliers.
Like I said "among other names" for the pliers. I know about 8 names for that style pliers. You have taught me nothing.
I didn't mean anything by it. I actually was trying to direct to a big mouth down the page, complaining about the presenter in the video. I appreciate your comment, as most complainers will not post a video, but will complain from the mountain tops about someone not being a professional. Please forgive my post...It was not intended for you :)
no chair will be dismanatbele... I have 4 chairs different types here
none of them evene with wd 40... If someone sat on them for a couple of weeks is kiss my chair good bye... buy a new one no cilinder change
they are rtuck
all these vids are of chairs one just put together before the vids. A ton of fluf nothing real