After waiting about 2 months for the replacement part for my chair, I was finally able to fix it last night. Ironically, Big Lots Furniture, which sold the chair, is no longer in business here.

The instructions made it look like this was a simple procedure. All I was supposed to do was use a hammer to tap the gas lift out of the base of the chair. About a half hour later, two of us were using the blunt end of a dumbbell trying to get the base loose, and the dumbbell was taking more damage than the pump. In the end, we switched to using a hack saw to saw the plastic base off the pump. We had to saw off more than 3/4 of the central circle before the remainder could be pried off.

Given how resilient that base was to being destroyed - even the legs took blows from the dumbbell without cracking initially - I'm amazed the thing split in the first place. But there is a happy ending, the new base is in now, and the chair will hopefully not break again.

- Posted by in Personal at 9:46 PM