# Any way to fix my chair?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-fix-my-chair/467284>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 10, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-fix-my-chair/467284 "2008-10-10T03:51:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-fix-my-chair/467284/1 "2008-10-10T03:51:41Z")

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I’ve got one of those generic office chairs that has an adjustable pneumatic height tube. I’ve had it for years.

Recently, the height tube seems to have sprung a leak somewhere (or something) because when I sit on it, it slowly descends to the depths of its minimum height. (To add insult to injury, I’ve been _losing_ weight that past few months. So it’s not my fatness.)

Anyway, is there any hope of fixing this? I don’t even know where to look on the chair itself for things to seal up, it’s just a tube inside of another tube.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-fix-my-chair/467284/2 "2008-10-10T03:57:31Z")

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[http://swivel-chair-parts.com/Tips/GasCylinderRemoval.html](http://swivel-chair-parts.com/Tips/GasCylinderRemoval.html)

[office chair repair](http://www.google.com/search?q=office+chair+repair&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)

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**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-fix-my-chair/467284/3 "2008-10-10T04:10:07Z")

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I wish you better luck than I had. I bought an originally fairly pricey office chair from a used office furniture store; I think it was a Steelcase chair. After a year or two, the hydraulic adjuster sprang a leak. I managed to track down the replacement part, only to find that it cost roughly double what I’d paid for the chair! So instead, I bought another used office chair. If you have the option, check out used office furniture. It is quite possible to get a still serviceable high-end chair for a fraction of its original price. Not to mention other good buys, like my $39 8-drawer solid wood executive desk.