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Hey man, thanks for your video. Information on this type of design of casters is pretty sparse, and the Markus chair I got uses these. I'm probably not going to drill holes in them, but go for the M6 bolt method you linked. Your video was really helpful though to understand how those brakes work and how an M6 bolt in that bottom hole might solve the problem..
(sorry for my bad English i'm French) I have those casters on my MARKUS chair. However due to the conceptions of this exact version, the "break pads" being molded in the thing it's virtually impossible to disassemble the wheels. In purpose of cleaning the tons of hair that tumbled in them i had no choice but to cut the housing of the break pads following a reddit post about it. However if cleaning isn't needed you can deactivate the safety feature by simply put a screw in the under hole and forcing the mechanism to engage ! like a few people did and showed on TH-cam. No need to drill like you did , but thanks for the video !
I've seen the original vid and came here to see it in more detail. Thanks for posting. There is much easier way to make them wheels roll without putting pressure on them. I'm talking about type 2 of course. You need to lift the axle of the wheel. I did it by putting a screw 5.5mm dia 10mm long into that hole at the bottom of the Ikea caster wheel. No need to drill anything. Just make sure the screw is short enough so it doesn't stick out beyond/below the wheel itself.
Great idea! I guess you used a machine screw (flat on the tip) to limit the friction with the axle. Using a wood screw or self-taping screw (pointy tip) would dig into the axle. On the long term I might be a little concerned about friction between the axle and the screw. Did you put a piece of plastic or add grease between the screw and the axle?
@@dieselpowered I used flat screws. Well, one screw at the moment as I just figured it out and have to buy some more screws tomorrow 🙂 The axle is immobilised that way unfortunately. Can you have a look if your axles are actually spinning in the housung freely? I have a feeling that the axles are not moving anyway. Only the plastic wheels are rotating freely on the axles.
@@holynex I just checked my chair and you are right, the metal axle doesn't spin. The axle is fixed and the wheels turn on the axle, so friction between the screw and the axle won't be a problem.
Thanks so much for going into such detail and demonstrating it in this video. These ikea chairs are so stupid. I don't have a drill or screws so I can't exactly follow this procedure. I might have to just pull the trigger on buying some from Home Depot. Ridiculous. One thing I don't understand is exactly how the mechanism works. If a spring is pushing the axle towards brake pads, how does sitting on the chair (pushing the wheel down towards the brake pad even more) release the brakes?
The weight of the chair is put on the top of the spring. The wheel and the axle are "floating". It works like the suspension in a car. If you put a lot of weight in a car, it will push on the suspension (spring) and will go lower to the ground. Now imagine you put a brake pad under the axle, connected to the body of the car, so that it touches the axle when there is no weight in the car. When there is no weight, the brake pad prevents the axle from turning. If you put weight in the car, the body will lower to the ground. Since the brake pad in connected to body, it will also go down, away from the axle, so the axle can spin free.
Don't do what this video shows. You could get injured using a drill in this way. An easier way to take the spring out is by prying the wheels off, pulling the axel out, remove the spring and then reassemble.
You can't do that with this design of wheel. Most of the other videos out there show a different design. Though the videos that put an M6 bolt in the bottom hole would probably work and would be less destructive. It's a shame Ikea insist on putting those idiotic wheel on their chairs. A lot of their chairs a otherwise pretty good.
Since publishing my video, I've seen people use other methods that might be easier. Suggestions : th-cam.com/video/s9uZBvyq7KM/w-d-xo.html , th-cam.com/video/OARoG_gmYAA/w-d-xo.html , th-cam.com/video/IQK259cElGY/w-d-xo.html
at first I thought it's a good idea, great the chair won't roll around.... then I tried to move the chair before sitting down... and then I realized this is junk .
Truly an atrocious design. The only reason I can think of why Ikea is keeping these locking wheels is that they were sued by someone who got injured by a chair moving away from them as they were sitting on it.
An easier way is to use a utility knife to cut off the plastic brake pads. Each axle rests on 4 brake pads. They're simply plastic projections that form a C-shape around the axle. The spring presses the axle against those 4 pads. Just whack them off, and the wheels spin free!
Are you sure this can be done with this version of the Ikea casters? I don't think I see those 4 brake pads you are talking about in the casters presented in the video. In the other version of the Ikea casters, there are tabs that can easily be cut off (see th-cam.com/video/JOdhFJirkio/w-d-xo.html ). If it is really possible to easily cut off brake pads in this version of the casters, I would like to know more!
My wheel's were not identical to yours, they're probably a new design, but I think the idea will still work because it's the same mechanism. I made a TH-cam video so you can see in detail what I'm talking about: How to disable the safety brakes on Ikea desk chair caster wheels. th-cam.com/video/yXXeKRFScxk/w-d-xo.html What do you think?
Great video! The disassembly really helps understand where the four brake pads you are talking about are located. Unfortunately, the casters on my chair are totally different. The braking mechanism is probably similar, but the "brake pads" are completely hidden away, you would need to destroy a large part of the plastic around the axle to get to them.
Since publishing my video, I've seen people use other methods that might be easier. Suggestions : th-cam.com/video/s9uZBvyq7KM/w-d-xo.html , th-cam.com/video/OARoG_gmYAA/w-d-xo.html , th-cam.com/video/IQK259cElGY/w-d-xo.html
Hey man, thanks for your video. Information on this type of design of casters is pretty sparse, and the Markus chair I got uses these. I'm probably not going to drill holes in them, but go for the M6 bolt method you linked. Your video was really helpful though to understand how those brakes work and how an M6 bolt in that bottom hole might solve the problem..
(sorry for my bad English i'm French) I have those casters on my MARKUS chair. However due to the conceptions of this exact version, the "break pads" being molded in the thing it's virtually impossible to disassemble the wheels. In purpose of cleaning the tons of hair that tumbled in them i had no choice but to cut the housing of the break pads following a reddit post about it. However if cleaning isn't needed you can deactivate the safety feature by simply put a screw in the under hole and forcing the mechanism to engage ! like a few people did and showed on TH-cam. No need to drill like you did , but thanks for the video !
I've seen the original vid and came here to see it in more detail. Thanks for posting. There is much easier way to make them wheels roll without putting pressure on them. I'm talking about type 2 of course. You need to lift the axle of the wheel. I did it by putting a screw 5.5mm dia 10mm long into that hole at the bottom of the Ikea caster wheel. No need to drill anything. Just make sure the screw is short enough so it doesn't stick out beyond/below the wheel itself.
My wheels are from April 2018.
Great idea!
I guess you used a machine screw (flat on the tip) to limit the friction with the axle. Using a wood screw or self-taping screw (pointy tip) would dig into the axle. On the long term I might be a little concerned about friction between the axle and the screw. Did you put a piece of plastic or add grease between the screw and the axle?
@@dieselpowered
I used flat screws. Well, one screw at the moment as I just figured it out and have to buy some more screws tomorrow 🙂 The axle is immobilised that way unfortunately. Can you have a look if your axles are actually spinning in the housung freely? I have a feeling that the axles are not moving anyway. Only the plastic wheels are rotating freely on the axles.
@@holynex I just checked my chair and you are right, the metal axle doesn't spin. The axle is fixed and the wheels turn on the axle, so friction between the screw and the axle won't be a problem.
@@dieselpowered
Mystery solved! Haha. Cheers mate 👍😊
Thanks so much for going into such detail and demonstrating it in this video. These ikea chairs are so stupid. I don't have a drill or screws so I can't exactly follow this procedure. I might have to just pull the trigger on buying some from Home Depot. Ridiculous.
One thing I don't understand is exactly how the mechanism works. If a spring is pushing the axle towards brake pads, how does sitting on the chair (pushing the wheel down towards the brake pad even more) release the brakes?
The weight of the chair is put on the top of the spring. The wheel and the axle are "floating". It works like the suspension in a car. If you put a lot of weight in a car, it will push on the suspension (spring) and will go lower to the ground. Now imagine you put a brake pad under the axle, connected to the body of the car, so that it touches the axle when there is no weight in the car. When there is no weight, the brake pad prevents the axle from turning. If you put weight in the car, the body will lower to the ground. Since the brake pad in connected to body, it will also go down, away from the axle, so the axle can spin free.
The wheels on my chair wont roll smoothly even when I sit on the chair
Buy rollerblade wheels for it.
Just make sure you can drill larger holes than those original ones. You would have to enlarge them from 10mm to 11mm.
Well, the design may require an American to sit on it, lol
@@jcgongavoe337 was that supposed to be funny? I could talk a lot of trash about people from your country but I’ll pass.
@@AMGF815 Because it's already happening for decades and that's how internet works
Thank you for this. Now my floors won't be scratched anymore from this over designed bull shit.
Is there a set of casters I can just buy on Amazon to swap these out with?
Probably. Casters can be changed, just make sure the caster stem is the right dimensions.
Don't do what this video shows. You could get injured using a drill in this way. An easier way to take the spring out is by prying the wheels off, pulling the axel out, remove the spring and then reassemble.
You can't do that with this design of wheel. Most of the other videos out there show a different design.
Though the videos that put an M6 bolt in the bottom hole would probably work and would be less destructive.
It's a shame Ikea insist on putting those idiotic wheel on their chairs. A lot of their chairs a otherwise pretty good.
I've removed more plastic from this dumb ass caster than there is left on it and I still haven't found the spring. And I've snapped 3 drill bits 😡
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@@dieselpowered thank you very much
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Change those wheels or forget about getting Ikea chair..
at first I thought it's a good idea, great the chair won't roll around.... then I tried to move the chair before sitting down... and then I realized this is junk .
Truly an atrocious design. The only reason I can think of why Ikea is keeping these locking wheels is that they were sued by someone who got injured by a chair moving away from them as they were sitting on it.
@@dieselpowered I'm planning to buy aftermarket casters to replace them altogether, and getting a upgraded caster at the same time as well.
An easier way is to use a utility knife to cut off the plastic brake pads. Each axle rests on 4 brake pads. They're simply plastic projections that form a C-shape around the axle. The spring presses the axle against those 4 pads. Just whack them off, and the wheels spin free!
Are you sure this can be done with this version of the Ikea casters? I don't think I see those 4 brake pads you are talking about in the casters presented in the video. In the other version of the Ikea casters, there are tabs that can easily be cut off (see th-cam.com/video/JOdhFJirkio/w-d-xo.html ). If it is really possible to easily cut off brake pads in this version of the casters, I would like to know more!
My wheel's were not identical to yours, they're probably a new design, but I think the idea will still work because it's the same mechanism. I made a TH-cam video so you can see in detail what I'm talking about:
How to disable the safety brakes on Ikea desk chair caster wheels.
th-cam.com/video/yXXeKRFScxk/w-d-xo.html
What do you think?
Great video! The disassembly really helps understand where the four brake pads you are talking about are located. Unfortunately, the casters on my chair are totally different. The braking mechanism is probably similar, but the "brake pads" are completely hidden away, you would need to destroy a large part of the plastic around the axle to get to them.
@@capturewiz DieselPowered HI, what do you think of these? I can't find the break pads. drive.google.com/open?id=1UP5Gj8uo6MOY0tb2EirQPtn8U3zYOuKE