The workplace should be comfortable, especially if you are constantly in a sitting position. If sitting is not comfortable, then this can significantly affect health. When buying a new office chair, it is often delivered unassembled, packed in a cardboard box. If there is enough free time, we will assemble and adjust the chair ourselves.
Training
Conscientious manufacturers put in each package an instruction sheet for assembling an office chair. But you can easily lose it, or simply not understand the schemes and description of the process. Proceed to installation.
We are preparing a place where we will collect the future head chair so that all components are at hand. Carefully unpack the box so as not to damage what is inside. Check if all the details are in the box:
- seat;
- back;
- crosspiece;
- armrests;
- gas lift;
- rollers;
- top gun;
- fixing bolts.
If everything is in place, go to the second stage of assembly.
Rollers and gas lift
For those who do not know how to assemble an office chair, we offer detailed instructions:
- We lay out all the details in front of us.
- The first thing to do is install the rollers on the cross. In most configurations, it is not necessary to screw the rollers with screws. Just flip the cross over with the convex side down, and push the cotter pin into the holes of each of the five rays. Absolutely no tools required. All the wheels in place, flip them to the floor.
- A gas lift is a special cylindrical mechanism filled with gas, which is compressed when a person lands in a chair. We remove the protective plug and simply insert it into the hole in the middle of the crosspiece.
Do not disassemble the gas lift completely, as it is filled with gas under high pressure, and its rupture can be harmful to health and cause injury.
Seat and Top Gun
The next step is to connect the seat and the swing mechanism, which makes the chair soft and supple for the back position. This device controls how much the back deflects under the influence of weight and simultaneously fixes the back to the seat. To understand how to assemble an office chair, look at the screws supplied with the equipment.
As a rule, there are three types of screws of different lengths:
- 3 pcs. short;
- 2 pcs. medium;
- 6 pcs long.
Four holes for fasteners are visible on the bottom of the seat, which means that, logically, three short screws are not suitable for us. We fold back two large screws for the armrests, the rest serve as the fastening of the top-gan to the seat. The depth of the holes is the same, but the design of the mechanism differs in the design of the front and rear mounts.
We proceed to the installation itself:
- Turn the seat upside down and apply the top gun so that the holes match.
- Using a wrench, which is in every configuration, twist the long screws on the back side, where the back will be, and the middle bolts on the front side.
- It is recommended to tighten all four bolts in turn, and then tighten them evenly in the same order.
Mounting the back and armrests
We will discuss how to assemble an office chair further. The top-gan, which we fastened to the seat, is an important mechanism, since in addition to adjusting the swing, it serves as a connecting component for the seat, back, gas lift and cross. On the back of the chair is an iron bracket with holes. It is he who is attached to the top gan:
- We take a key and three small bolts from a complete set.
- We attach the bracket on top of the flat protrusion on the top-gun, so that the backrest fastener is on your side, and tighten the screws.
- We raise the resulting structure and carefully insert the gas lift into the corresponding hole on the iron mechanism under the seat.
Assembling the chair is almost complete.
To mount the armrests, we take four identical bolts that remained. We find holes for their fastening and complete the work by fixing them on both sides of the chair.
So we independently assembled our comfortable work chair. Those who did not know how to assemble an office chair on the mechanism, we assure you - there is nothing complicated here.
In case the model provides for a separately mounted headrest, check in advance whether bolts are available for it, what size, and attach the headrest to the back of the chair. See that the main part of the part moves freely up and down.
Adjustment
Typically, the chairs are standard, consisting of five parts. But the mechanisms and methods for their regulation differ individually, depending on the model. So, we sit down in a chair to find out whether it will be comfortable to sit in it, whether the gas compression system works when landing - how much the chair lowers under your weight. In a sitting position, we try to untwist the chair as quickly as possible until it stops.
We adjust the height of the seat: we sit down and, using the lever under the seat, raise and lower the chair so that the hands on the table are at an angle of ninety degrees with respect to the position of the body. And the legs should reach the floor with the whole foot. During operation, the back should be in an upright position, and during rest, slightly tilt it back so that the muscles and spine can relax.
You need to focus more on your feelings, on how you most comfortable sitting and working at the table. If during landing and ascent from the chair, it moves behind you - this means a malfunction of the gas cartridge in the mechanism.
Ready for use
Now you know how to assemble an office chair with your own hands. Any person will cope with such a task, and by doing this yourself, you will save money on calling the wizard.