Right, So for the past few months I've been finding the computer chair I've been using more and more uncomfortable, I don't know how I managed to tolerate it for the first few years but recently its been doing my head in. Whilst browsing Retrorides yesterday evening at roughly 20:00, I leaned back in the chair and felt it dig into my back as had happened to be numerous times over the last while and I decided it was one time too many.
I then remembered seeing a photo of car seat turned into a computer chair on some site.
1. It was something along these lines. (Image shamelessly stolen form Pinterest)
2. And this is the computer chair I was dealing with.
So I got thinking, I've an ideal donor computer chair, Which parts car can I steal a seat from?
3. Cue one very very very rotten Carlton GSI. Driver's front seat was badly worn leaving the interior fairly worthless, given the interior is pre-facelift it would have been hard enough to sell even if it was in mint condition.
4. A set of Allen keys later and I now had a Carlton GSI minus its front passenger seat.
4. 4 bolts later and I have a donor frame.
5. Some measuring, drilling and electric metal later I now have an adapter to bolt the Carlton seat rails to the office chair frame.
6. Some rattle can metallic blue that's been lying about the shed for a good few years was applied thick and fast.
Some spacers were also made to lower the seat down an extra inch. At its lowest possible setting it sits at a comfortable height.
7. Bolted together.
8. The finished product.
9. Finished product.
Don't know why I didn't do it sooner, the comfort of the Carlton seat does not compare to the old one. I've still retained the seat rail adjustment forward/backwards, back of the seat tilts forwards/backwards, seat base adjusts up/down, Bolster assist, etc.
I then remembered seeing a photo of car seat turned into a computer chair on some site.
1. It was something along these lines. (Image shamelessly stolen form Pinterest)
2. And this is the computer chair I was dealing with.
So I got thinking, I've an ideal donor computer chair, Which parts car can I steal a seat from?
3. Cue one very very very rotten Carlton GSI. Driver's front seat was badly worn leaving the interior fairly worthless, given the interior is pre-facelift it would have been hard enough to sell even if it was in mint condition.
4. A set of Allen keys later and I now had a Carlton GSI minus its front passenger seat.
4. 4 bolts later and I have a donor frame.
5. Some measuring, drilling and electric metal later I now have an adapter to bolt the Carlton seat rails to the office chair frame.
6. Some rattle can metallic blue that's been lying about the shed for a good few years was applied thick and fast.
Some spacers were also made to lower the seat down an extra inch. At its lowest possible setting it sits at a comfortable height.
7. Bolted together.
8. The finished product.
9. Finished product.
Don't know why I didn't do it sooner, the comfort of the Carlton seat does not compare to the old one. I've still retained the seat rail adjustment forward/backwards, back of the seat tilts forwards/backwards, seat base adjusts up/down, Bolster assist, etc.
