Just went through this tonight. First I removed or thought I removed the cylinder from the caster area by removing the clip and sliding the cylinder out. Except not really the shell it slid out of was still there as I learned later. I chewed up the metal on the cylinder quite well with the wrench before it finally popped off of the base when the seal broke. I felt so proud. Was all set to replace it and then I saw the shell part of the cylinder was still in the caster area. Whacked it with the only hammer I had a plastic mallet and it's not coming out. Hoping a rubber mallet or claw hammer does the trick tomorrow.
@@ContractOfficeReps I should use the pipe wrench on the column/ piston housing that's stuck in the wheelbase? Tried a rubber mallet on it for a good 5 minutes and nothing. Same with a drop hammer.
There seems to be a lot of these chair cylinder videos. This one seems well done. However, as a caution I will share my experience here as I have with some of the other videos: 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.
Yup.... this is where I am at but no tractor. The damn thing won't budge. Just took off the seat bracket and have it soaking in wd40. I have a feeling I'm gonna have to anglegrind this thing out. NOT nearly as easy as the prestaged video.
Thank you for helping me! Couldn't get off the base no matter what I did. I tried Regular hammer and Rubber mallet. Didnt move a inch! Then i tried WD40... didnt work. So i decided to replace the whole Cylinder. I was bamming that base for 3 days for it not to move and inch. So I bought a Pipe wrench and I almost gave up. But your advise about Weight helped. Im 429lb sitting in a 350lb limit chair so it was STUCK STUCK. In the end the Pipe wrench was the best option! And i had to really put my back into it! So thank you for the Tip and video!
Good video thanks for taking the time one simple question are most of your standard Staples or Office Depot office chair cylinders install the same way in other words do you have to buy a specific piston for a specific style of office chair. I have what would be considered one of your standard office chairs it goes up down and tilts back and forward
Never mind I am guilty of stopping a video 2 minutes before it's over to ask a question LOL.. I grabbed an office chair next to a dumpster because the arm broke off and I thought I could use the cylinder but I guess I'd better do some digging before I just try to swap them
Amazing. A few well-placed hammer taps is all it ended up taking. Wish I had watched this video before trying to hammer it into oblivion (per other online advice). Thanks so much for posting!!!
BRO, this is such an underrated video. The trick where you hit the mechanism as close as possible to the lift is just genius. I've been hitting mine for 2 days straight and this worked instantly after just 2 more hits. AMAZING!!!
I concur! I was out in my garage with a pipewrench nearly giving myself an aneurism straining until finding this video. Seriously, three taps on the mechanism and it popped right out!! I am ready to install the new cylinder! RUclips video of the Year nomination!!
Dude. I've been fighting with my chair for an hour and was about ready to just wait until my hubby got home. This got the thing off right off the bat. I'm going to tell myself that I'd loosened it up. LOL
was replacing both my cylinder and underseat assembly today, so i only needed the first portion of the video. was having trouble dismounting the cylinder without the leverage of the chair body (which i hadn't considered and was already sitting with the new tilt mechanism attached). watching this made me realize that i had to apply some external pressure, and holding down the old tilt mechanism with my foot did just the trick. thanks for explaining the whys in the video! saved me a good bit of sweat
Hitting the mechanism near the cylinder on the chair did the trick. After a dozen or so tries, the cyclinder came off. I was trying with a larger wrench but not a pipe wrench. Thank you for the trick!
Got a warranty replacement cylinder for my chair. Had no idea how to replace it. Found the original assembly instructions online. They were of no help. Fortunately, I came across the link for this video. Saved me! By the way, folks, most office chairs have a long warranty. Mine was from Staples, and it has an 11-year warranty on the cylinder.
Thanks for posting, excellent video! Based on the chair back style, I have a similar model chair to this one (though that doesn't matter). The lower assembly came off the chair just fine, it's the bottom, where the legs and piston meet that was a bear for me. Other videos talk about using a wrench to pull the piston/cylinder out, however this video talks about whacking the piston from the bottom to finally get it out. That did the trick. I should also mention, I did this in my garage. Took a lot of whacks with a heavy woodcutting axe with a sledgehammer head. I kept marking the location where the piston went into the chair mechanism, so I could tell if I was making progress. I was, but got frustrated and stopped. It was a colder day, so say 32F or so. I left it there for about an hour. My wife suggested perhaps it'd contract in that time. I went out, and in two whacks, the piston finally dislodged. We'll never know if it was the cold or it just needed those last few hits to get the piston out. I should mention, the chair got a lot of use (and not by lightweights either) for the last 6 weeks, so it was in there pretty good.
Dude, you're the best. I was struggling with this, my chair cylinder had an alarming amount of rust, but with your advice, WD-40, pacience and time did the trick. Many thanks
THANK YOU for that hammer trick for the cylinder into the chair - I wanted to swap some parts for a while now but didn't want to use the pipe wrench, and I didn't know that any other solution existed. Thanks again, you saved me a lot of money!
I've watched a bunch of these videos. This is the one I tried. 3 whacks with a standard hammer to get rid of the chair base. 4 whacks to get the cylinder off of the chair proper. EXCELLENT METHOD. I bet I could have done it with less swings if I were practiced with a hammer.
Dude! Thank you so much! Watched another video before yours (it was higher rated) but it did not go over the hammer stuff or the lubricant / WD-40 stuff. I applied WD, tried the plumber wrench, no dice. Then saw how someone else waited 15 mins or so after using WD-40. I did this, and bam, wrench got it! Life saver!!!
NO OTHER VIDEO was as accurate and helpful as this......I had to use every tool you listed to get mine out and ONE ADDITION that NO ONE TALKS about is the HARD PLASTIC COVER...that you have to rip and pop loose then CUT it with heavy CUTTERs.......
Thanks mate. Random but I bought 2 $500 valued cobra eblue gaming chairs for $280! The lift didn’t work. A few videos later I disassembled the chair only to find the red safety cap still on the cylinders. Used your hammer technique to pop out both and snagged the caps & put them back together.
literally me and my dad watched this video together to solve my chair problem and BOOOM, just follow ur step carefully only took less than two minutes.. THANK YOU
Excellent all the way through! I got my old cylinder off following your instructions, after failing to do so following a number of other RUclips videos. Thank you so much!
I finally found a perfect solution to my stacked monitor, thank you sooooooooo much, i have not been this happy ever, you have no idea how much i appreciate you. i want to give you a big hug for this! its been such a shitty day and you made me jump to joy. thank you thank you thank you love you(not gay)😊
Excellent instructions. Removing the base went as planned. The top proved extremely difficult. The chair has been in service for 24 years. A 24-inch pipe wrench was required. Plus 2 men to stabilize the chair,
This is a decent DIY video. Using a regular hammer and pipe wrench, I was able to replace my office chair's gas cylinder. However, after replacement, the chair would still not go up and down. Upon inspection, I was able to see that a small spring above the new cylinder that works with the side lever was out of place. Once this spring was placed in the proper position, the chair worked fine.
Thank you for you video. This helped me get the cylinder out after an hour fighting with it. Had to use the hammer to knock the rust out at the base like in the video.
Your tip worked like a charm! One of the caster holes broke in an otherwise good chair. I'm replacing it with a metal base now after trying to glue repair the caster fitting. I couldn't get the gas cylinder out at first. Subscribed
cheers, watched a few videos and couldn't work it out, your suggestion you might have to use a lot of force on the pipe wrench to break things free did the job. Literally jumped on it and it came free.
This guide was the one to break the older cylinder loose from my chair. Appreciate that you proposed more than one method, as the hammer only method did the trick. Took a few strikes on the mechanism to get the cylinder free.
Thank you so much! Everyone else insisted a pipe wrench was needed (which I don’t own), and I’ve only had my chair for 6 months. I was literally in tears after working with this stupid thing for hours. I even mostly disassembled the chair. A few whacks close to the assembly (I had to move it around to find the right place) and it popped right off! No pipe wrench needed.
Thank you so much. I had to replace one of those cheep steel bases since one of the wheel holes got broken. Hitting with the side of the hammer was very effective as I didn't have a rubber mallet on hand and I was afraid of breaking the cylinder after some hard whacks with the head of the hammer.
note to self: next time, watch a RUclips video! i got a new rolling chair to replace my old, torn up, but VERY well built one with metal casters, and it turned out the manufacturer didn't include the cylinder in the box. i thought it would be a simple matter to take the top off the old chair and use the base but the disassembly was a frustrating 2.5 hour slog that went nowhere, because i was stymied that the connection from the cylinder didn't seem to be attached by an obvious method like a set screw, but was instead tightly compressed via body weight pressure and a friction fit. i did hammer it a lot with no success. it didn't even occur to me that a pipe wrench was what i needed until i saw your excellent and informative video! it was really stuck and even though i tried to protect it with some foam the wrench definitely scored up the chrome surface of the cylinder. however, after much back and forth, it finally released and i was able to assemble the new top and triumphantly place it on the older cylinder and bottom. thanks so much for the tip!
Yes; older chairs can be a major pain to remove. Using a pipe wrench will damage the cylinder and its recommended you request a new one from the factory. Glad we could help.
I was hitting the wrong place at first and was so afraid that it may cause a lot of damage in my chair. Good thing I found your video, By just using a hammer and simply finding the right place to hit, in just a few seconds the cylinder detached! Wow! so happy! girlPower!
Thank you! I didnt have a pipewrench and about gave up and then saw this video and was able to give it about 6 wacks per step and solved the issue without having to leave the house.
👍 Thanks for posting this. It was most helpful. A combination of a wrench (mole grips), hammer blows, WD40, and a little patience, and the job was done!
Great video! I never thought about using the hammer technique, I couldn't get anything to move with a pipe wrench, and I'm a big guy. The hammer knocked it right out of both ends!
Been attempting to replace the cylinder on my chair for two days now. -Your advice of where to hit the base worked and my cylinder fell right out. thanks for your video.
Excellent video. Another way I found to remove the strut was I unscrewed and removed the seat base from the mechanism and taped the top end (ram) with a punch after spraying it with WD-40, and it slid out easily.
This actually worked perfectly. Used a demolition sledgehammer because that was available in my toolkit and came off on the second go. Hope this video gets a bump up to #1 in recommended
That made it so much easier to do. I had issues... but I think it was using the rubber mallet. Using a regular hammer, I was able to get the parts apart. And the hint on where to hit on the base of the chair. New cylinder installed and sitting high again! Thank you
I didn't have a pipe wrench, but I had a large pair of locking pliers. To get sufficient leverage, I used a breaker-bar. And actually... sometimes the outer sleeve of the old gas cylinder can slide over it and work as a "makeshift" one. A little WD-40, 15 mins, a little more WD-40, then did the locking pliers with the breaker-bar. Worked great.
Worked, though not as easy as in the video. The chair was 12 months old, old young son sat on it and gas lift went, cheap make, but it wouldn't budge at first, but pipe wrench eventually got it turning and out. Thanks
this video makes the base removal look so easy. i was bashing it with a mallet for half an hour and it didnt seem to budge at all. i put some oil on there, gonna leave it overnight. hopefully it will move
Its the magic of video editing. We mentioned to put some lubricant on cylinder especially if the chair is order or if the user is larger. Hope this helps.
Thank you so much I may or may not have been yelling and cussing for over an hour trying to get this off. I had watched many videos but one as detailed as yours. I got it after just 2 hits thank you :)
Thank you so much for this, I fully thought I was gunna have to fork out for a pipe wrench but I simply held the chair up in the air by the cylinder and one good hit with the hammer and it was off!
I put a ton behind the pipe wrench and it wouldn't move. a few smacks with the hammer around the base right where you said loosened it up enough to allow me to spin it out with the pipe wrench thanks!
Wonderful, it worked. I was about to send my chair back as they initially put a longer piston and sent the right one afterwards. It gets easy if you know where to hit! Thanks!
Thank you so much! I was about to cut up the fabric on my chair to get the parts loose. Once I knew where to hit a couple of whacks with a hammer broke the two pieces apart and I could reassemble the chair with the new base!
Watched another videos, this one got it done! Hammer only!
Glad we could help.
Just went through this tonight. First I removed or thought I removed the cylinder from the caster area by removing the clip and sliding the cylinder out. Except not really the shell it slid out of was still there as I learned later. I chewed up the metal on the cylinder quite well with the wrench before it finally popped off of the base when the seal broke. I felt so proud. Was all set to replace it and then I saw the shell part of the cylinder was still in the caster area. Whacked it with the only hammer I had a plastic mallet and it's not coming out. Hoping a rubber mallet or claw hammer does the trick tomorrow.
Try allowing some lubricant to sit on there for a day or two. Reply if needed. Pipe wrench is typically the best option to remove a cylinder.
@@ContractOfficeReps I should use the pipe wrench on the column/ piston housing that's stuck in the wheelbase? Tried a rubber mallet on it for a good 5 minutes and nothing. Same with a drop hammer.
There seems to be a lot of these chair cylinder videos. This one seems well done. However, as a caution I will share my experience here as I have with some of the other videos:
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.
I see your last option was "Act of God" :) I hope we helped a little.
I’m coming over to use your tractor because mine isn’t coming off either! Lol
The same problem I am having, unfortunately no tractor.
Yup.... this is where I am at but no tractor. The damn thing won't budge. Just took off the seat bracket and have it soaking in wd40. I have a feeling I'm gonna have to anglegrind this thing out. NOT nearly as easy as the prestaged video.
did you happen to record it? would be funny as hell. LOL. Glad you finally got it off (staged videos should be removed)
Thank you for helping me! Couldn't get off the base no matter what I did. I tried Regular hammer and Rubber mallet. Didnt move a inch! Then i tried WD40... didnt work. So i decided to replace the whole Cylinder. I was bamming that base for 3 days for it not to move and inch. So I bought a Pipe wrench and I almost gave up. But your advise about Weight helped. Im 429lb sitting in a 350lb limit chair so it was STUCK STUCK. In the end the Pipe wrench was the best option! And i had to really put my back into it! So thank you for the Tip and video!
Glad we could help.
Good video thanks for taking the time one simple question are most of your standard Staples or Office Depot office chair cylinders install the same way in other words do you have to buy a specific piston for a specific style of office chair. I have what would be considered one of your standard office chairs it goes up down and tilts back and forward
Never mind I am guilty of stopping a video 2 minutes before it's over to ask a question LOL.. I grabbed an office chair next to a dumpster because the arm broke off and I thought I could use the cylinder but I guess I'd better do some digging before I just try to swap them
Amazing. A few well-placed hammer taps is all it ended up taking. Wish I had watched this video before trying to hammer it into oblivion (per other online advice). Thanks so much for posting!!!
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BRO, this is such an underrated video. The trick where you hit the mechanism as close as possible to the lift is just genius. I've been hitting mine for 2 days straight and this worked instantly after just 2 more hits. AMAZING!!!
Great to hear. Thank you so much for the feedback. Glad everything worked out for you and we could help.
I concur! I was out in my garage with a pipewrench nearly giving myself an aneurism straining until finding this video. Seriously, three taps on the mechanism and it popped right out!! I am ready to install the new cylinder! RUclips video of the Year nomination!!
Dude. I've been fighting with my chair for an hour and was about ready to just wait until my hubby got home. This got the thing off right off the bat. I'm going to tell myself that I'd loosened it up. LOL
Glad I could help.
Best of all you didn’t need any Hubby. You succeeded!
was replacing both my cylinder and underseat assembly today, so i only needed the first portion of the video. was having trouble dismounting the cylinder without the leverage of the chair body (which i hadn't considered and was already sitting with the new tilt mechanism attached). watching this made me realize that i had to apply some external pressure, and holding down the old tilt mechanism with my foot did just the trick. thanks for explaining the whys in the video! saved me a good bit of sweat
Glad we could help.
Hitting the mechanism near the cylinder on the chair did the trick.
After a dozen or so tries, the cyclinder came off.
I was trying with a larger wrench but not a pipe wrench.
Thank you for the trick!
Glad we could help.
Got a warranty replacement cylinder for my chair. Had no idea how to replace it. Found the original assembly instructions online. They were of no help. Fortunately, I came across the link for this video. Saved me! By the way, folks, most office chairs have a long warranty. Mine was from Staples, and it has an 11-year warranty on the cylinder.
Glad we could help.
Thanks for posting, excellent video! Based on the chair back style, I have a similar model chair to this one (though that doesn't matter). The lower assembly came off the chair just fine, it's the bottom, where the legs and piston meet that was a bear for me. Other videos talk about using a wrench to pull the piston/cylinder out, however this video talks about whacking the piston from the bottom to finally get it out. That did the trick. I should also mention, I did this in my garage. Took a lot of whacks with a heavy woodcutting axe with a sledgehammer head. I kept marking the location where the piston went into the chair mechanism, so I could tell if I was making progress. I was, but got frustrated and stopped. It was a colder day, so say 32F or so. I left it there for about an hour. My wife suggested perhaps it'd contract in that time. I went out, and in two whacks, the piston finally dislodged. We'll never know if it was the cold or it just needed those last few hits to get the piston out. I should mention, the chair got a lot of use (and not by lightweights either) for the last 6 weeks, so it was in there pretty good.
Glad everything worked out.
Your video here is by far the most concise and gave the clearest instructions (with trades tips) on this task. Thank you so much!
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Dude, you're the best. I was struggling with this, my chair cylinder had an alarming amount of rust, but with your advice, WD-40, pacience and time did the trick. Many thanks
Every once in awhile I help people haha. Glad it worked out and glad we could help.
THANK YOU for that hammer trick for the cylinder into the chair - I wanted to swap some parts for a while now but didn't want to use the pipe wrench, and I didn't know that any other solution existed. Thanks again, you saved me a lot of money!
Glad we could help.
I've watched a bunch of these videos. This is the one I tried. 3 whacks with a standard hammer to get rid of the chair base. 4 whacks to get the cylinder off of the chair proper. EXCELLENT METHOD. I bet I could have done it with less swings if I were practiced with a hammer.
Glad we could help.
Dude, you rock. I was trying every which way. No tools but a hammer. 03:28 - two swipes did it for me. Much appreciated.
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Dude! Thank you so much! Watched another video before yours (it was higher rated) but it did not go over the hammer stuff or the lubricant / WD-40 stuff. I applied WD, tried the plumber wrench, no dice. Then saw how someone else waited 15 mins or so after using WD-40. I did this, and bam, wrench got it! Life saver!!!
Glad we could help.
NO OTHER VIDEO was as accurate and helpful as this......I had to use every tool you listed to get mine out and ONE ADDITION that NO ONE TALKS about is the HARD PLASTIC COVER...that you have to rip and pop loose then CUT it with heavy CUTTERs.......
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Thanks mate. Random but I bought 2 $500 valued cobra eblue gaming chairs for $280! The lift didn’t work. A few videos later I disassembled the chair only to find the red safety cap still on the cylinders. Used your hammer technique to pop out both and snagged the caps & put them back together.
Nice work. Glad we could help.
literally me and my dad watched this video together to solve my chair problem and BOOOM, just follow ur step carefully only took less than two minutes.. THANK YOU
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Excellent all the way through! I got my old cylinder off following your instructions, after failing to do so following a number of other RUclips videos. Thank you so much!
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Omg. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. After many other videos ,yours came through how to get that cylinder out. Thanks. I'm subscribing
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@@ContractOfficeRepswhat can we get to stop it from goin all the way down in the hole
I finally found a perfect solution to my stacked monitor, thank you sooooooooo much, i have not been this happy ever, you have no idea how much i appreciate you. i want to give you a big hug for this! its been such a shitty day and you made me jump to joy. thank you thank you thank you love you(not gay)😊
you are a god send, i spent hours trying to do this and after watching your video i did it so fast, thank you so much!
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Thank you so much i was looking for a fix and after several videos this is the only one that helped !
@@DeadmanAdman glad we could help.
Excellent instructions. Removing the base went as planned. The top proved extremely difficult. The chair has been in service for 24 years. A 24-inch pipe wrench was required. Plus 2 men to stabilize the chair,
WOW! 24 years that's impressive. Surprised you were able to even remove the cylinder. Glad we could help.
Worked like a champ. Two well placed hammer blows as recommended in the video and off came the cylinder. Well done.
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This is a decent DIY video. Using a regular hammer and pipe wrench, I was able to replace my office chair's gas cylinder. However, after replacement, the chair would still not go up and down. Upon inspection, I was able to see that a small spring above the new cylinder that works with the side lever was out of place. Once this spring was placed in the proper position, the chair worked fine.
DUDE YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER! been at it for like an hour trying to get the cylinder off and then watched your vid, TWO WACKS. THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN!
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Thank you so much for the tip about the pipe wrench. My cylinder was so stuck I needed a heavy duty wrench banged numerous times with a mallet!
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This video gives great advice and it worked perfectly for my chair cylinder change. Many thanks
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Thanks for your help!
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Thank you, dude. I didn't think anything would work but your technique worked like a charm.
That's great to hear. Glad we could help.
Thank you for you video. This helped me get the cylinder out after an hour fighting with it. Had to use the hammer to knock the rust out at the base like in the video.
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Best video ever! I didn't have a pipe wrench, so this hammer method worked great. Thanks for the instructions!
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Sir, I salute you. I lost several hours with wrench without even single thought try hammer instead. All was done in 5 minutes afterwards
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This was exactly what I needed after trying a bunch of methods on other videos, props
We are the pros. Glad we could help.
You are the real MVP, finally a video that actually helped!!!
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This video was a God send. I was seconds away from buying a rubber mallet thinking I had no other choice! Thank you so much
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my rubber mallet was no good for this
Great video. Worked like a charm for my chair. Thanks!
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Your tip worked like a charm! One of the caster holes broke in an otherwise good chair. I'm replacing it with a metal base now after trying to glue repair the caster fitting. I couldn't get the gas cylinder out at first.
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Glad we could help. If the base broke after changing it was probably already cracked.
cheers, watched a few videos and couldn't work it out, your suggestion you might have to use a lot of force on the pipe wrench to break things free did the job. Literally jumped on it and it came free.
Glad we could help.
This guide was the one to break the older cylinder loose from my chair. Appreciate that you proposed more than one method, as the hammer only method did the trick. Took a few strikes on the mechanism to get the cylinder free.
Glad we could help.
Thank you for this video! It worked for me too. I had a bunch of trouble with using a mallet but a real hammer was the trick for me.
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I used the hammer method to remove both bottom and top sections. Thanks for the useful demo.
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THANKS SO MUCH! I don't have a pipe wrench and was trying to manage with a vice grips. This worked with three smacks of the hammer!
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Thank you so much! Everyone else insisted a pipe wrench was needed (which I don’t own), and I’ve only had my chair for 6 months. I was literally in tears after working with this stupid thing for hours. I even mostly disassembled the chair.
A few whacks close to the assembly (I had to move it around to find the right place) and it popped right off! No pipe wrench needed.
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Thank you so much. I had to replace one of those cheep steel bases since one of the wheel holes got broken. Hitting with the side of the hammer was very effective as I didn't have a rubber mallet on hand and I was afraid of breaking the cylinder after some hard whacks with the head of the hammer.
Glad we could help
note to self: next time, watch a RUclips video! i got a new rolling chair to replace my old, torn up, but VERY well built one with metal casters, and it turned out the manufacturer didn't include the cylinder in the box. i thought it would be a simple matter to take the top off the old chair and use the base but the disassembly was a frustrating 2.5 hour slog that went nowhere, because i was stymied that the connection from the cylinder didn't seem to be attached by an obvious method like a set screw, but was instead tightly compressed via body weight pressure and a friction fit.
i did hammer it a lot with no success. it didn't even occur to me that a pipe wrench was what i needed until i saw your excellent and informative video! it was really stuck and even though i tried to protect it with some foam the wrench definitely scored up the chrome surface of the cylinder. however, after much back and forth, it finally released and i was able to assemble the new top and triumphantly place it on the older cylinder and bottom. thanks so much for the tip!
Yes; older chairs can be a major pain to remove. Using a pipe wrench will damage the cylinder and its recommended you request a new one from the factory. Glad we could help.
I was hitting the wrong place at first and was so afraid that it may cause a lot of damage in my chair. Good thing I found your video, By just using a hammer and simply finding the right place to hit, in just a few seconds the cylinder detached! Wow! so happy! girlPower!
Way to go. Glad we could help.
Thank you! I didnt have a pipewrench and about gave up and then saw this video and was able to give it about 6 wacks per step and solved the issue without having to leave the house.
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Awesome - was struggling with a noble chair - looked at other videos - this one was spot on!
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👍 Thanks for posting this. It was most helpful. A combination of a wrench (mole grips), hammer blows, WD40, and a little patience, and the job was done!
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Great video! I never thought about using the hammer technique, I couldn't get anything to move with a pipe wrench, and I'm a big guy. The hammer knocked it right out of both ends!
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Thanks for the tips!
I was able to swap it out with a hammer, though it definitely took more than one wack to break the old one free!
Glad this helped and yes the cylinder can be in there quite tight.
Been attempting to replace the cylinder on my chair for two days now. -Your advice of where to hit the base worked and my cylinder fell right out. thanks for your video.
That's sweet spot. Just be careful if the mechanism has a plastic cover.
Excellent video. Another way I found to remove the strut was I unscrewed and removed the seat base from the mechanism and taped the top end (ram) with a punch after spraying it with WD-40, and it slid out easily.
Glad we could help. Yes that is definitely another way of doing; however a little more involved than what most people want to do.
Your the best!!! And Lauren!!
Thank you Sir, and thank you for your business. Can't wait to see HAG Capisco on the podcast.
The amount of frustration you just saved me. Thank you!
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Great stuff, thanks mate, good points to keep the cylinders working longer.
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Thank you so much for the information you gave in order to swap the cylinder for my chair.
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You guys rock worked like a charm!!! Although using the hammer to hit the pipe wrench to "move" it works better
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This actually worked perfectly.
Used a demolition sledgehammer because that was available in my toolkit and came off on the second go.
Hope this video gets a bump up to #1 in recommended
Whatever works. Glad our video helped.
Very clear thank you. I’m a mechanic and will use a small sledgehammer that will be perfect for this job
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That made it so much easier to do. I had issues... but I think it was using the rubber mallet. Using a regular hammer, I was able to get the parts apart. And the hint on where to hit on the base of the chair. New cylinder installed and sitting high again! Thank you
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I used a rubber mallet, too. The technique of creating friction with one of the legs seemed to have made the difference for me
Thanks for the tip: the rubber mallet was making it impossible for me as well. I was coming from another video.
Your comment was of a great help.
I didn't have a pipe wrench, but I had a large pair of locking pliers. To get sufficient leverage, I used a breaker-bar. And actually... sometimes the outer sleeve of the old gas cylinder can slide over it and work as a "makeshift" one. A little WD-40, 15 mins, a little more WD-40, then did the locking pliers with the breaker-bar. Worked great.
Whatever gets the job done. Glad it worked out. Hope the video was informative.
@@ContractOfficeReps Yes, my chair is even better than before, as I'd gone with a superior pneumatic cylinder providing an extra 1" of height. :-)
very helpful i just bought an auction lot of 20 Eames style chairs and one or two have that sinking feeling !! thanks dude
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Excellent explanation! You are the best! Congrats!
Thank you! Glad this helped.
Worked, though not as easy as in the video. The chair was 12 months old, old young son sat on it and gas lift went, cheap make, but it wouldn't budge at first, but pipe wrench eventually got it turning and out. Thanks
Nice work glad we could help. The chair in the video was brand new and removal almost took no effort. Simply for cinematic excitement only :)
this video makes the base removal look so easy. i was bashing it with a mallet for half an hour and it didnt seem to budge at all.
i put some oil on there, gonna leave it overnight. hopefully it will move
Its the magic of video editing. We mentioned to put some lubricant on cylinder especially if the chair is order or if the user is larger. Hope this helps.
@@ContractOfficeReps thanks, I didn't really listen to the video
Thank you so much I may or may not have been yelling and cussing for over an hour trying to get this off. I had watched many videos but one as detailed as yours. I got it after just 2 hits thank you :)
NIce work. Glad we could help.
The hammer trick helped immensely, thank you for the helpful tips!
It took me a while, but your steps worked just right. Thanks so much for the informative video.
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You helped me a lot, perfect video. Thank you from Australia.
"Cheers"! Glad we could help.
Thank you so much for this, I fully thought I was gunna have to fork out for a pipe wrench but I simply held the chair up in the air by the cylinder and one good hit with the hammer and it was off!
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I put a ton behind the pipe wrench and it wouldn't move. a few smacks with the hammer around the base right where you said loosened it up enough to allow me to spin it out with the pipe wrench thanks!
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Thank you so much! I was minutes away from tossing my chair in the garage because I didn’t think I’d ever get off the old hydraulic.
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thanks for this! I didn't have a pipe wrench but the hammer method worked great.
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Great video! The pipe wrench tip worked for me. Thanks!
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Very helpful i changed it in 5min with hammer .
Thanks a lot!
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what a life saver
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Thank you so much for this tutorial, the help that it gave me was so appreciated
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Thanks mate! It worked as you said. I put a bit of DW40 cos it was a bit stuck and voila!!
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Thank you, this is exactly what i needed to see to finally dismantle it!
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@@ContractOfficeReps I successfully did it yesterday 👍
Wonderful, it worked. I was about to send my chair back as they initially put a longer piston and sent the right one afterwards. It gets easy if you know where to hit!
Thanks!
Glad that trick helped. I hope it was a @9to5Seating chair :)
Thank you so much!!! I was looking for a how to on replacing my chair cylinder. Love your videos!
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Thank you. I was beginning to wonder if they were tightly bond or not
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What a well presented video that works. Well done!
@@TheBobo377 glad we could help.
Thank you so much! I was about to cut up the fabric on my chair to get the parts loose. Once I knew where to hit a couple of whacks with a hammer broke the two pieces apart and I could reassemble the chair with the new base!
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I was able to replace it by referring to the video!
Thank you very much. from Japan
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Thank you🎉👏👏👏
Dad and I did it through your easy step by step guided 🥳🙏
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Thank You so much, your video really helped me a lot, I have a new chair now.
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That tap to the base, with the hammer, is an awesome tip. Thanks.
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Perfect!!! The easiest way to do it!! I appreciate you.
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Appreciate the video, brother. Just what I was looking for.
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Thanks... took 2 minutes to remove and replace. Great...
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It worked genius
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THANK YOUU!!! I have like no arm muscles and was still able to do it THANKS!!!
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Thanks for the video.....I replaced mine (warranty cylinder) and working great!
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NICE!!!! I WAS NOT ABLE WITH THE PIPE WRENCH DUE TO LACK OF FORCE! (SHORT WRENCH) BUT A FEE HITS WITH THE HAMMER GOT IT LOOSE!!!
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