I have a lovely genuine leather office chair that I bought for $25 at a thrift store. No defects in the leather, very comfortable. Why was it in a thrift store? A few months later as the weather warmed, the cylinder that supports it at the set height started losing altitude. It was not often, but sufficiently frustrating that I went looking for fixes. Many of these chairs can be repaired with a pretty simple replacement of the gas cylinder. Not this one.
So I hacked together a solution. I bought a piece of aluminum tube big enough to go around the tube that attaches seat to base, cut it into two hemitubes, then aircraft clamped them together to put a support between chair and base. It worked, but was not adjustable. Worst of all, there was a horrible squeak when I sat down on it. While my wife has been recovering from surgery, the squeaking became intolerable to her.
I hunted around for someone to repair it. These guys: OFR of Boise. I took it in Thursday afternoon, and Friday morning it was repaired for $100. If that seems steep, take a look at the reviews of similar office chairs on Amazon that are less than $200: bonded leather that must have heard its "safe" word; mechanical failures. A bargain. Nice people.
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