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Has anyone ever tried to install arms for an armless office chair? How would you go about doing it, if possible?

>> No.1158926

>>1158923
Just buy a chair with arms

>> No.1158972

weird I always take the arms off of my chairs

>> No.1158981

>>1158923
buy two more chairs and raise the height to your arms when sitting.

>> No.1159040

>>1158926
or steal one from a coworker or a far away department

>> No.1159066
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1159066

>>1158923
been wanting to do this to a shitty walmart chair i got last semester.

i think best idea would be to make two brackets that screw onto the base of the seat where the piston attaches. then attach a couple of square tubes or something to those with upholstered wood rests on top.

>pic related

gonna try it out once im home from school and have access to tools again

>> No.1159864

>>1158981
Best answer ITT

>> No.1160180

>>1158923
Bout to. Junked an electric wheelchair. Wekding the arms to the back of a bucket seat.

>> No.1160718

>>1158923
it depends on what the layer that the butt cushion is on top of is made of.

I've installed arm rests on one that had a plywood cushion base. I just measured, then tapped the holes then bolted them on.

the armrests were taken off an office chair with a broken leg someone left out for the garbage men to take.

>> No.1160754

>>1158981
>>>1158923 (OP)
>buy two more chairs and raise the height to your arms when sitting.
This is /diy/ not /buy/ take your buyfag garbage elsewhere

Op, salvage two chairs, maybe when a local office upgrades or dumpsterdive, then take the arms off of those chairs and raise the new chairs up to your arms.

>> No.1161773

>>1158923
>Get a metal plate a tad bigger than the swivel mechanism
>Drill holes on the plate side and bolt on the arms
>Bolt swivel to metal plate
>Bolt plate to chair