How to Fix a Broken Gaming Chair for CHEAP
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- čas přidán 31. 08. 2019
- So when two chairs broke down within literally 3 days of each other, I then couldn't just 'use another chair' as I had no chairs left to use. So in need of a quick but sure fix, I went on good 'ol gammtre and found a sturdy looking office chair for $10 AUD (about $7 USD) and used the not only the base stand from that, but also the gas strut and core plate to attach to the other chair and fix two chairs in one go! The Second fix however is more difficult, so you may need a drill and some self tappers to get that fixed.
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Can we all appreciate the re-enactment Bryan did to fall off the chair
It well deserves a nomination for the Oscars ;)
@@espi8997 It deserves a Snowman cooler
Use JBWELD should be just as strong as new. metal epoxy. For the 2nd chair.
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BuT CaN It DO ThIs?
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0:53 Tech YES City don't need no Stunt Double! He's his own stuntman!
this guy is really saving environment frm polution good job Brian!
Also recycling boxers 😂😂😂. Calvin Klein microfiber cloth .
Always repair and reuse. Done it my whole life. Like this video, here I am 10 months later reusing it. Love the content, inspiring me to do some for sale projects myself.
Hey Brian,
I am working for a major "Gaming" chair brand and I can confirm that almost all brands are buying their parts from the same factory. The broken seat substructure you had with your chair (where the welding broke) is literally the same as the one on our chairs. We also bought 2 cheapo chairs from Amazon for a comparison and they also both used this same part. Same goes for the gaslift, it's the same in almost every chair.
The only thing I'd be aware of are the wheels and the wheelbase. You can fuck up your whole chair with the wrong parts, since many mounts on the base or even these mounting poles on the wheels are angled. If you put angled wheels on a non-angled wheelbase your whole chair can break due to weight distribution. So just be careful on this one.
this happened to my chair right out of the blue, lasted just under a year. i thought id found a cheap comfortable and reliable chair til one day the welding just said "nope" :/ . the product is no longer for sale, so are they aware they sold people a faulty product? theres nothing wrong with the chair besides the welding being obliterated, very frustrating, especially because none of these manufacturers sell replacement parts
This was a great idea. I have an old chair. I believe it was my dad's. so I have been holding on it. But now I have a way. To give it new life. Awesomeness hands down. 👏👏👏👏
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No one:
Yes man:rtx gpus on the floor
@4:45 Check out the AMD one.
he's stacking them for gaming when the apocalypse comes and the government dies
Was about to say Officeworks sells replacement chair parts but then it came up in the eBay search results and the cheapest is about $45 .
And your channel goes to show how you can extract some extra life out of things instead of going “it’s broken , throw the whole item out and replace” thus adding to landfill 👍
4:00 "Make sure you thoroughly clean the shaft."
Well, it isn't called TechYesLovin' for nothing haha
Nice that you are in good shape and did not hurt yoursel doing the reenactment, not the usual electronic video but still informative, keep up the good work
Wow Bryan. Talk about varied content!
Good stuff.
I totally agree with you. Fixing is better than throwing away and buying new!
Keep the content coming.
Cheers, Mon from Brisbane.
Great job Brian! I hate throwing stuff away when it can be fixed on the cheap! YES!
Just woke up before my first day of school. Nice to see that during my breakfast
nice work Brian!
love this mindset to get high value for money and it's against pollution (most people just buy new)
I found a gaming chair on the side of the road with the exact same problem so I got it and welded it together and it was still brand new by the looks of it. Works well
I just got a dxracer of craigslist here in houston for $50... just needed a couple spots to be sewen up, looks brand new!
Great job. Saved 3 chairs from the dump. And got 2 fixed chars. Well played!
Good stuff B, I bet those chairs had that new Tech Yes Car Smell too!!
Tech YES Loving this content
I'm confused are these chairs socketed LGA 1150, or LGA 2011-3, and what are the chipsets???
Then you gotta ask the real question. Does it have hdmi.
mankybrains Display port
@@Cat-fp7jw hdmi was the start of it. Dp not so much at least that I know of hence saying hdmi.
Maybe peripheral and PC case manufacturers should stick with peripherals instead of trying to trying to venturing into gaming chairs.
I recommend watching out for spares and broken chairs on hardrubbish. Often you can salvage parts and rescue a couple of chairs. Did that for years and even after I invested in a proper ergo chair my old rescue went to a friend.
This video made me love my chair im 300 pounds and lean back all the time and no issue at all :) Thank you for the video for future issues that can crop up
My chair is bending back too far! lets see where this goes...
Hey Bryan , There is a better product to lube up your chairs . Lol but what i use is a silicon telflon spray. The brand is Blasterx but this stuff lasts longer than wd40 and works better lubricating the parts . Ive even used it in cars with windows that tend to stick to the rubber seals.
Keep up the good work Brian.
When the chair is new it not cheap! Awesome fixing tips!
Very different video and loved it!
Great content yet again.
This is a great fix!
One of things I did at the old job was cannibalise old office chairs to do repairs on other more expensive chairs. The castors are also interchangeable and pop off easily. My mate got a really nice gaming chair cheap but it had a bent shock. Used one out of his old chair and all fixed.
yea I've broken a few myself from sitting badly, applying to much backwards pressure. The YES MAN CAN!
I have had many chairs over the years and had one break like the one with ripped metal (which I had welded and was good until it wore out) but also several with the broken plastic feet, all broke in same place and all Chinese and pretty much looked the same type. They were all in warrantly from Amazon so sent back but packing a chair up is no mean fete. The stress point of the feetbreak ones was proving to be not me swinging around or lauing back but to where I was leaning forward in the chair to stroke my cat. There is no allowance for leaning forward and down and the feet just snapped at the weakest joint with the plastic being less than one mil thick. Get what you pay for I guess. One other thing, I did bang my head on a glass desk with some force and fortunately it did not break or it would be a different matter. Great video as ever and thanks for taking the time to show us. I am sure there are a billion chair horror stories to tell :)
Ive kept one or two bases of old office chairs that people have thrown away for similar reasons. If you have space in a garage or basement, they come in handy if you have to repair one. Also, most of those 'gaming' consumer-grade chairs are made from thin sheetmetal and brittle plastics, probably explains what happened to these chairs. The ones you find in a corporate office are more overbuilt, some of the HON chairs come to mind, and cost more than double than most chairs people buy for home use.
Nice video of replacing and repair!👍🏽
But i am having issues with my chair after it cracked on the pole side just below bracket. I have had it welded again but when joining the chair back to base...chairs looks unbalance(slanting) where front of chair points towards ground. So im constantly sliding to the front of the chair when im sitting down....any suggestions? I feel like if i keep using it in this manor it will crack and/or break down again! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Well done mate
good fix there Bryan
Nice work at reusing. Around here there are free office chairs almost every other day.
G'day Brian,
I am one for getting the most out of items as well, which is why I love Used PC Parts Hunting,
Also I have a 'How can I fix this brain' & love learning how to fix stuff, it's like 3D Jigsaws 😁
The collar on the base of my Southern Wolf gaming chair sheared right down the middle and I am wanting to fix by just getting a new collar. Any ideas? Appreciate you taking the fall for us demo wise!
Hey man, can you please make a video on how to remove the plastic of the locking mechanism on ur right. Because when i put too much pressure on my back the chair just goes back so i need to remove the plastic and tight that mechanism up
Hello i have a chair with a broken seat where the base supports the actual chair it is just compressed wood and it snapped in half so the chair just leans forward is there a place where you can get that part? the piece of wood or metal that goes under the seat and where the bolts/screws attach to thank you for your time.
my own chair is on the verge of breaking itself, idk how common it is but my own chair as like a wooden seat bottom that attaches it to the metal base and shaft
basically as time went on, the attachment point as been slowly breaking the wood around it until it basically breaks a full circle and detaches itself
You're awesome..🤗😊
The wear and tear that caused your base to fail is from your weight shifting around in the chair and when you make it roll. You were lucky to get the gas lift out of the broken base and the new caster base on. I bought 2 new gas lifts to fix a couple of failed lifts and I have yet to be able to get a lift out of both the base and the caster base without wrecking them.
One of the best intro to a video xD
Yout always have awesome music. What was that song at the end?
*You can also buy universal replacement parts from some sellers. BUT yes, it would cost more than a cheap used chair.
I have managed to find cheap parts but I'd have to replace all three parts of the base which is approaching the cost of a chair. It is such a waste when most of the time it is either the mechanical base or the gas lift that fails.
You mentioned you found parts, what about arms? My chair is fine but it's one of the cheaper ones that use the arms to hold the back on which is causing the right arm to give out.
@@vgamesx1 I usually use DIY solutions ... right now I'm using a Trabant car seat, mounted on a small boxy-wheely-thingy I screwed together...
you could pick similar bases on streets peoples through many chairs or even find it in gumtree freebees
the same happend to me no long ago with the metal base breaking,I thought im sure my chair dosn't go this far back but i had to keep sitting back until thud
I'm having a problem where the left reclining bracket, that is, the one without the lever to adjust incline, is loose. Instead of staying put except for when I do change the incline, it's moving freely and making the back of the chair sag on the left side. Is there anything I can do to stiffen it back up?
I love cleaning the shaft ;D
Which screws did you use to drill in the new holes?
my armrest is just torn for no reason. I have fantech gc 181.
btw nice video
So glad I learnt how to weld at school
Is the gas cylinder thing supposed to be in front or at the back at the bottom of the chair?
Could u please tell me what to do if one of arms it has 3 screw sockets and one of them is bend up, so because of it I cannot lean much on chair , is there any chance to somehow fix it ?
What kind of gaming chair is the one that had the metal break?
Use J-B Weld 8267 SteelStik Steel for the metal if you can bend it back.
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I broke 5 mechanisms, 2 suspensions and some wheels last 6 years. Im a heavy guy. I buy the parts online since my chair uses special parts. I can find the parts online for cheap (at least in my country). Fixing is better than buying new chairs every time.
mine just broke off sideways.
1st time: found on the curb with a bent piston, replaced.
2nd time: the plate itself starts bending, eventually snaps off sharply with a crack running almost the entire length from the hinge to the front of the bracket, welded.
3rd time: weld broke, completely replaced with an extra-thick base from a 1990's chair that had swivel, backrest AND height functions built in
4th time: since the screws didn't match with original holes, drilled into wooden base in order to attach, screws ripped out approx 1 year later.
About to just break out the angle grinder and shear off the flat piece of an I-beam, drill and thread it to make the holes match for good.
Bryan's reenactment be like "but can you do this???"
Some real Chair YES lovin'
I've never owned a gaming chair myself but I've never met anybody that was a satisfied customer lol
Not kidding you my comment about karma coming for me, it literally did lmao, i fell off a school computer chair and hit my head on the table lmaooooo
Bro people like you and me are dinosaurs who don't treat our money like we didn't have to work for it ... The world has devolved into harmful consumerism, so it's extremely easy to fleece customers into a mindset of " well I can just buy another one" and yes, YES you are correct most gaming chair parts are made by "Vertichair"
Thanks man, saved my chair.
My wife thinks I'm the only one that does this kind of stuff I need to show her this video.
Two office chair stories.
One I took from a monthly sidewalk disposal while walking in Zurich. The people in some apartment left a high quality office chair (with lumbar support mechanism) for city pickup along with a pile of other crap; I immediately knew it came from a reputable brand and would cost me about $900 new. Not having planned for such things, I was lucky to have my SUV with me...and not the Mini...and was able to toss it in the back of the car. I cleaned it up and replaced one arm (found a spare on eBay for $40). A very heavy chair, with a steel base. ( I live in a place where people literally throw out their skis and bindings after 3 or 4 years...people make it a business by roaming with van during this time of the month.)
I have another chair that I really find comfortable...but...because the molded plastic arms connect at the base and the back of the chair...over-time they stressed and one eventually broke. I replaced that chair but the next time around, took black para-cord and connected each resp. arm's mounting points to take stress away from each plastic arm when leaning back. The black on black looks unobtrusive and part of the design. That chair has lasted me about 5 years and still counting.
Dad Man the kinda guy you need around when the apocalypse comes
My brother tried to weld the base that had a similar type of damage. Didn't work out for him, but I wouldn't exclude the possibility that he did it ass-backwards.
It's the trash metal . You can't weld it , it has a ton of impurities all through it.
my chair's back leans back and forth even though the reclining mechanism is locked. and it tilts diagonally. I've even gone thru and torqued down all the bolts as tight as I could just short of using a proper wrench.
Looking for videos A type Office gaming Swivel Backrest bearing 180 degrees also would like to to knw the dif between AType & A/BType
can i swap my old office chair base onto my racer chair my hydraulic has broken can io do a simple swap over
Epoxy is typically stronger than the material chairs are made of so if you can't get a cheap chair for parts try that.
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Any ideas on fixing mine?
The plastic wheel holder is broken.. the wheel came off..
I don't abuse my chair..
Runs it into ground 2nd time for reenactment 😂😂😂
That made me laugh
Question: does anyone know where can I find a cushion for my gaming chair ( Nitro Concepts C80 Pure ) ?. I got the chair for 60$ last year, but I could use a cushion for the neck zone.
Noone:
Intel: just hot glue it lol
My gaming chair fix.Two cartoons(30s) of XXXX Gold.When you fall of your chair,you have had to much or need to go to the pub
That base snap oof, lucky my dxracer will never do that
Put some spacers on the front of the one that wont recline back so you get a little bit of natural angle..
maybe its not steel, some cheap aluminum. also those don't weld well
It is steel, but relatively soft, which can't handle this type of repetitive stress.
@@Fixalek maybe. anyway its also hard to weld bad steel because welding seem just goes through soft metal burning it and not fixing anything.
so what is shown in this video is probably the best way to fix it.
@@rawdez_ Welding would work. If you burn through the metal that would mean the settings on your welder are too hot. I mig or cheap flux core welder would do the trick. You would want to prep the metal by taking a grinder with a sanding disk to get the paint off around the damaged area, and take apart the chair so it's just the base plate.
@@MaxDad7 usual welders can't be less hot than they are.
probably some "cheap flux core welder" would do the trick, but no one is going to buy one just to be able to work with a bad metal.
IMO if a metal can't hold "true" welding you don't want to have stuff made from it anyway.
@@rawdez_ I don't expect anyone to buy a welder to fix their chair. I'm just saying that I can be done. I have welded before, and worked in a fab shop producing trailers. It can be done with the proper settings.
Fix gaming chairs? said no one ever :P
Haha I was actually trying to fix my gaming chair yesterday.
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Nice :)
I have a gaming chair but if you lean forward the whole chair goes forward do y’all know how to make it stuck in a certain area
You need chairs??? Laughs in desk-over-bed setup.
same thing happened to my offce works chair
i did weld it up but it killed the gas lift
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I would have at least tried a chemical weld on the broken metal plate section with a product like J-B Weld. (I need my rocking feature)
"Make sure your thoroughly clean the shaft. Can do this with back and forth motion." Oh Bryan, you naughty boy..
Watch out for carpal tunnel..so I have heard.
I just threw away my old chair and I was looking for a new one for cheap coincidence I think not
I just bought a New Chair, I'm not throwing my old one away as it is going back to the Dining Table set 🍽
Mystery metal seems to be the culprit here.....no point in welding mystery metal lol....I experienced this pain recently. I learned something about these chairs I never knew about. The chair I bought felt like I was sitting in the ocean...the plate that the seat bottom attaches to was bent...and it wobbled.....and I the old chair I hadn't yet removed became a donor and a short term improvement...but the creaking was driving me nuts...I did some searching via duckduckgo and discovered that within the gas strut there is a very simple bearing race, a few washers and rubber bushings, and a kit to replace these is about 12 on Amazon...so I ordered one and a new plate...(that was a rather frustrating experience shipping wise as Amazon transitions to independent contractors instead of FedEx for shipping) . So my seat no longer wobbles or creaks...but I do want to pick up the heavy duty base plate available, also on Amazon, the price of that one is about 30 dollars more than the one with the five year warranty that came with the one I bought. The important thing to note here is that the rocking is preserved and the chair functions as designed...let me find that youtube video too...information acted upon become knowledge, and knowledge is power...or so they say at any rate lol. I found it!!! czcams.com/video/00-94OY7u5A/video.html, that video being the one that showed me there were internal wear items within the gas shock enclosure..but the channel is a wealth of information for repair of most office furniture, indeed.
Yes, clean your shaft with a back and forth motion.
whahaaha hat to laugh with the re-enactment 😂😂😂😂😂
two words “planned obsolescence”
the introooo lmaoooooooooo