Office chair: step by step assembly instructions with photos and video

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Leather office chair

Elegant leather office chair with padded seat and backrest

Office chair or computer chair on the "wheels" is a convenient and effective substitute for conventional furniture. Soft seat and back reduce the load on the spine, and the rollers eliminate the need to get up to take a step to the next table with a common telephone. Save on collector invitation - learn with us how to build your own computer chair.

Compact office chair "Bridge"

Compact office chair "Bridge" purple

Content

  • 1 What is needed to build an office chair
    • 1.1 Seat with backrest
    • 1.2 support mechanism
  • 2 Step by step instructions for assembling chairs
    • 2.1 Place the rolls in nest
    • 2.2 Prepare seat
    • 2.3 Set the gas-lift in the crossbar
    • 2.4 Connect the two parts of the chair
    • 2.5 Spend assembly quality control
  • 3 Video: Building office chair Prestige

What is needed to build an office chair

Details office chair

A complete set of components for assembly of an office chair

Open the box and place the contents on a bench. Read the instructions carefully. Check the contents of all the details, materials and tools. Everything you need should already be in place. For fasteners for such seats having a head with an internal hexagon socket, the manufacturer is making a special key.

fasteners

Fasteners and hex wrench

Modern office chair consists of two main parts - an adjustable seat with backrest and the support of the height-adjustable roller wheels.

The two components of the chair

The two components of the chair

Seat with backrest

It can be made as a one-piece solutions to which may be attached to the armrests. But usually goes back separately. In this case, the kit is as follows:

  • back;
  • a mechanism for adjusting the seat and the backrest compound;
  • seat;
  • armrests.
Components for office chairs

The set of parts for office chairs

support mechanism

Legs office chair

Legs office chair, which support

Retaining structure upright and allows to move without rising:

  • gas-lift - performs a supporting function, has a variable length;
  • star-shaped base with straps;
  • Roller wheel.
support mechanism

The support mechanism for the design office chair

Step by step instructions for assembling chairs

The assembly is quick and pleasant, if you adhere to our proposed sequence

Place the rolls in nest

Insert the wheel into the holes on the chair legs

We put a little effort in the wheel openings legged chair

First, install the rollers the crossbar - by inserting their rods in the holes on the bottom surface of the cross and press firmly until it clicks. You can use a rubber mallet, but it is not recommended hard to beat on plastic parts components.

Click on the whole body an office chair legs

Once inserted all the wheels, put on the floor and press, his whole body on an office chair legs

Prepare seat

Attach to the bottom of the item

Attach to the bottom of the seat piastre using bolts

Attach on the rear part of the seat adjustment mechanism for the back and on the bottom - piastre.

IMPORTANT! When mounting the track, that each screw were provided with two types of washers - a plane (it increases the contact area of ​​the inner surface of the head) and a lock - to prevent loosening nuts.

Manufacturers offer a wide variety of devices regulating the position of the backrest and seat to the features of the spine of a seated person. The most common:

  • piasters - can only adjust the vertical offset seat and the backrest relative to the floor, is used in conjunction with the FDA;
    mechanism piasters

    piasters mechanism for an office chair

  • FDA (spring-screw mechanism) - reliable and undemanding, regulates only the angle and distance relative to the seat backrest, is applied together with a piastre inexpensive models;
    Spring-screw mechanism

    Spring-screw mechanism rocking chair

  • Top Gun - provides a "swing" monolithic seat with an angle of between 95 and 130º, but the feet are off the floor and the chair tip, choosing such a product, give preference to the mechanism on bearings shifted to the edge of the axis of tilting and locking of the working provisions;
    Swing Mechanism top gun

    Swing Mechanism top gun for office chair

  • timing mechanism - under the influence of body weight of gravity automatically changes the angle of inclination of the seat at the same time with the change of the seat position, the most expensive solution for top managers.
    Synchro for office chair

    Timing mechanism for an expensive office chair

Proper positioning indicated by the arrow

Proper positioning of the socket and the adjusting screw indicated by arrow

When installing note that slot gas lift shaft must be directed forward, and located next to the adjusting screw with a plastic handle - back. Insert the armrests into the side bracket slots and tighten the screws.

Set the knob

Set the armrests on both sides of the chair

Put back and tighten the adjusting screw.

Set the seat back

Install and fasten the seat back

Set the gas-lift in the crossbar

Sheath housing and the gas-lift

Sheath housing preassembled and gas-lift - shock absorber for chairs

Remove the last gas-lift protective caps and insert it into the upper base a central opening crossing. Collect shroud - it is often made of several parts on the principle of connecting telescopic pipes and put in gas-lift. Insert it into the center hole of the cross. You have collected the carrier portion.

Putting the carrier portion

We are putting the carrier part - a gas-lift insert the crossbar

Set cover

Set the cover in place and get ready to the lower part

Connect the two parts of the chair

Putting two pieces together

Carefully office chair to sit down on the seat shock absorber

Place the seat on the plunger gas lift and press down firmly, or sit on it - it is necessary that there was a strong fixation.

presses hands

Presses hands to commit occurred

Spend assembly quality control

Sit down and check the

We sit on a comfortable chair and check the success of the assembly

Sitting on the chair push down on the lever piastres. The seat is lowered. Pull up lever. If there was a return to the original position, the assembly is successful.

So you have to build a new office chair without the help of his boss, and now he will not give to anyone.

Black office chair

Black office chair assembled

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