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Title: Racing seat office chair
Post by: Wingman on January 13, 2014, 02:13:59 PM

PROJECT: Racing seat office chair

I've always wanted a racing seat office chair.  I had an old chair that the "leather" was getting pretty torn up.  I had some Christmas "credit", soooo...

This office chair seat base
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q17/wingman0/100_5740.jpg)

plus some 3/4" plywood
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q17/wingman0/100_5739.jpg)

equals
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q17/wingman0/100_5742.jpg)

plus one Summit cheapie fabric seat
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q17/wingman0/100_5741.jpg)

equals this!
(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q17/wingman0/100_5743.jpg)

Notes:
The seat came with adjusters.  I left them on originally to fine tune the front-to-back location of the base.  I didn't want to end up on the floor if I leaned back.  I measured the original chair back-to-base and copied with the new seat.  It turned out near perfect.  The adjusters left the seat too high at the base's lowest setting, so the adjusters came off with the knowledge that the base was correctly positioned.  Now my feet don't dangle like a 5 year old!  :D

I'm sure this project could be done with nearly any car seat you've got laying about.

RESULTS:
Fun and fairly easy home project.  Better quality (because it is a real car seat) than the cheaper manufactured office units out there.  It still rocks back and it reclines too!  Oh, and nap-tested too.  ;)

Title: Re: Racing seat office chair
Post by: mr.mindless on January 13, 2014, 02:22:05 PM

nice! just needs arm restse

Title: Re: Racing seat office chair
Post by: Nick on January 13, 2014, 02:24:07 PM

Sweet!! I don't know about the sky blue paint tho  :)

Title: Re: Racing seat office chair
Post by: Wingman on January 13, 2014, 02:32:21 PM

Don't really like or miss the arm rests all that much.

And that blue really didn't translate well...  Besides, wifey chose it and likes it, what else matters?

Title: Re: Racing seat office chair
Post by: etk300ex on January 13, 2014, 02:49:01 PM

your my hero!

Title: Re: Racing seat office chair
Post by: mr.mindless on January 13, 2014, 02:51:54 PM

*you're

Title: Re: Racing seat office chair
Post by: matt on January 14, 2014, 12:04:42 PM

Always wanted to do that.  When I visited Jeff's Bronco graveyard all the phone guys were sitting in Mastercrafts like that.

Title: Re: Racing seat office chair
Post by: orange anchor on January 14, 2014, 01:50:56 PM

Sweet, After Kelly's dad died, I took the Ranger 35th anversary back pedestal chair off his bass boat and made a awesome shop seat.