Sorting A Loose Gas Lift Post On An Office Chair

Sometimes you may find that your office chair has a loose gas lift post.

This is quite common with new office chairs and usually causes a problem when you lift the chair and the 5 star base falls off. Occasionally, the top half of the chair comes away from the gas lift strut.

This is usually quite an easy problem to solve, here’s what to do.

Wipe any oil off the end of the gas stem and inside of the hole it goes into and place the gas lift back in position.

Next, gripping the chair arms with your hands raise one leg and use you knee to push down firmly on the seat pad a couple of times. You can also just sit down heavily in the chair a couple of times if you prefer.

By doing this the pressure you applied will force the bottom of the post into the base and wedge it in position. It’s designed to be an interference fit, which is to say that the two components need to bind together and so lock into each other.

Once they’re wedged in place you should have no further problems.