For me the popping wasn't only happening from turning, but more so from shifting forward/backward. The fix I found was popping the top of the piston out of the tilt mechanism assy and cleaning/greasing that up so that it seats nice and tight and doesn't have any room to shift around.

I was close to buying a new one until I stumbled into this video, I can't believe i've been putting up with the popping for years thinking it was just knackered and i've fixed it in 5 minutes... Thank you so much!!!

My brand new gaming chair is squeaking like hell and this helped a little

You saved my wonderful 18 year old desk chair - thanks. The washer was broken and 1/3rd of it could not be found anywhere. I had a box of random washers from old sink repairs and other work - found one that fit almost perfect and no more noise

I know this video was like 4 years ago but I got a gt omega chair about 6 or 7 months ago and it has been creaking since I have had it. Finally got fed up of the noise and this video fixed it so, Thank You Very Much!

Thanks for the video. My chair pops loud enough to disturb other people and drived me CRAZY!!

Thanks! Terrible creaking with my Respawn chair every time it leaned back. Thought for sure it was the spring tensioner. But alas ,same spot as yours with some axle/wheel grease and now blissful quite. 👍🏼

Ahhh thank you so much! I was dreading buying a new chair when mine is only 3 yrs old and looks new! This did the trick. Much appreciated:)

Great video and I used it for my Kring chair (cheaper gaming series not much known). But I have another issue - when I sit the chair quite abruptly moves down in a single motion and makes an noise - cleaning and lubricating it didn't help and the rubber looked good. When I stand up it makes the same sudden movement and noise, as if the mechanism is quite clogged - it doesn't move slowly as it used to be when new.

Great. This helped. I've been putting up with this for years, replaced the chair, same crap going on with the new one, couldn't believe it, saw this, problem solved. Now it's time to fix the old one 😂. I could see there was a little grease inside the new gas lift, but very little. Did what you did - ace!!!!!

Worked perfectly! Thank you

OH MY GOSH!!!! thank you for this video.. I was given a great office chair, but it stuck/ and thudded when I would get up... this video helped me fix it!!!!

Woo hoo! Took two tries but once I figured out I had broken your first rule (put it back together the way you took it apart) and re sorted the pieces in the right order she is now silent as a mouse :) Note : My DX racer had two washers with bearing tracks so i put one before and one after the bearing. -thumbs up and like-

Amazing video, job well done!

To make matters worse Wayne, when I fell to the floor with the chair I knocked over my R2-D2 Dome frame as I was grabbing the desk for support. Been following your vids for that and have enjoyed the build. Nuts and bolt jokes aside mate, I keep talking to you on the screen " Wayne!" It is a nut, not a bolt in jest. Anyway, mate mention my poor R2-D2 and wish him well. May have to do some small adjustments to get him back in shape. Loving the vids and keep them coming. Regards from Rik in Durham UK.

Hey mate, just wanted to say that although my gaming chair is a bit different than yours (Noblechair Icon), your video helped me figure my own chair issues out. So cheers!

The chair was clunking every time someone sat on or got off it. We tried WD40 but that made it worse.....your method fixed it a treat. You're right.....You can never have too much lubricant! Thank you so much.

Thanks man! I used WD-40 instead of grease, and it worked great. I had a piece of hair stuck in one of the bearings, but no broken parts. Completely removed all squeaking when spinning in the chair.

I fixed my chair 4 years ago that was making that same popping noise after watching this video. I'm glad I found this video again, because the same chair is making the noise again. A question though, what causes the noise anyway? None of the parts in my chairwere broken like in yours.

tnx man, rlly helped me ! cool vid, no more popping !

Thanks man, you'r awesome

Thanks for that! Works for me!

Thank You!! It works! Awesome Millennium Falcon, and all your Star Wars love, btw!

thank you so much, my chair is now smooth af

Great Video, love your accent , i had a cousin in Scotland who spoke English, but could not understand him

just fixed my chair thanks for the help

Thank you !!!

Bro I deadass clicked this video and the squeak went away out of no where 😂

I decided to do the same thing to my chair, clean and apply new grease. And apparently my bearing had cracked too so I went to get a substitute from an old cheap chair while I glued the original. Turns out the bearing from a ~$40 chair was far superior than that of my $250 chair

Thank you, Sir! This saved me a lot of hassle and expense. A little improvisation to suit my particular chair model, and the problem is totally solved. #youcanneverhavetoomuchlubricant

will give it a shot

3:58 ... I'm not sure if the grooves were in there when the chair left the factory or if they were produced by the dry ball bearing. I turned my washers around so the flat side faced the ball bearing, applied only a little bit of grease to the ball bearing (after cleaning it) and the chair felt like new.

WHAT THE HELL. I used pig's fat instead of actual grease ( I didn't have any) and it actually worked, my chair is not popping anymore. Thank you.

Thank you so much! Sorted out my nitro concepts chair popping when I tilt forwards or backwards. Like new now :-)

Question about the tilting mechanism mine is stuck at an angle and i cant get it undone how can i fix? btw my chair is a respawn gaming chair

wow random one, but my chair was doing the same ...googled it and find this vid ....and see my R2 build is exactly where yours is in this vid LOL ...have been following your r2 build vids too :D

just be aware too much grease can cause a hydraulic lock so yes you can have too much..

My clip is broken but I got it back on and im scared to take it apart I need help

I think it is funny that according to the view about 54k people gathered here while probably sitting on their squeaky gaming chair haha love it

Is there a way to make tou chair spin faster

What size is the rubber? Mine got mangled so bad that I don’t even know what originally looks like

Tried this on my DxRacer and realized that mine was put together wrong and after this video my chair is now silent. :D

I have a MAXNOMIC Casual Sport. I don't see a bearing in it. I only see two rubber pieces and two washers..Is this right?

ive had a john lewis chair for literally less than a month and it's already doing this. they said it was normal so did not repair, however its really annoying

my chair is new and makes a pop creak type sound when rocking slowly.. my Maxnomics is like butter

I just did this and it decreased the clicking noise when I lean forwards or backwards but there’s still some there, I might not have put enough grease.

My gt gaming chair I got to fix my angle adjuster but can't find a video on it

Used $100 dallor secret lab mint condition but I can see why the seller sold it lol God damn I don’t have the tools or time to pull it apart I shot some dw 40 it helped kinda this is a Help full video

Mine sqeaks when i turn around in the chair, spinning in it.

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I have a Genesis one and when i tilts alitle bit in the front or back it sounds like an old door its ony 2 months old and i find it wierd the sound happens only when u try to sit and get up from the chair..it just squeaks

My chairs bearings and rubber piece were broken beyond repair. I put everything back (with tons of lube) without the broken parts and it works fine, for now. Curious to know what will happen if I just leave it like that.

What I Did : Literally put grease on space that touch each other: Screw socket washers any metal surface that touches to another metal surface. Now i can no longer distinguish which is my chair and which is my butter.

You did this wrong. The rubber is supposed to go on top of all of that. You can't have a ball bearing riding on rubber like that. If you open it and check the rubber will just lay there inside the stand. Did this yesterday but didn't have any thick grease so I took old hair wax. It was dry and really thick and it works perfectly until monday when I will get some from work :p The thick rubber thing is supposed to be like that and it goes closest to the piston, then the biggest bearing washer, then the bearing and then another bearing washer. Place the mount and then finish with the washer and then the clip.

Would you know how i can fix a hard spinning chair

I did all this with the the industrial lube, but it still pops when I turn. Even louder than yours.

this is what it fixed my chair: just take some grease and put in on the bolts before you screw them on the base of the chair. just watched 5 videos and nobody says that.

My chair leans forward a bit which can be annoying

Dude thank you so much my chair was so obnoxious with the cracking and popping now there's no noise! Made a video on my tick tock find it at Stancejunkyy

This also works for if your chair isn't reclining

What the brand name of that chair

Everytime I bring it back up from reclining it makes a really loud noises

Unfortunately I tried doing exactly this (following another fellas guide) and it didn't work. It's still so loud. KER CHUNK. Any other ideas?

Odd. My chair has the bearing between two washers, and the rubber ring comes after those, closest to the seat of the chair.

I have and s-racer chair and mine doesn’t have a bearing it just has a metal disk

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> You can never have too much lubricant That's what she said!

Pliers, tissue and grease...sounds like a sexy party 😂

My chair is still popping after doing this

Could I just buy a proper bearing instead of that plastic one?

Nice one Wayne. Mine collapsed on me last week and i went arse over tit lol!

All gaming chairs are plagued with this terrible design. Gaming chair bottoms are offset to the axis of the hydraulic axel. This applies a massive torque to the bearing and that popping sound is the bearing assembly crying for its life.

i dont understand i did all that but chair still makes sounds :(

this works with vaseline also?

Like vide

unconvincing

This never lasts more than 2 days. I suggest buying a new chair because trying to fix this will drive you crazy. The whole mechanism design is flawed from the beginning.

So you didn't show the bit where you was going to repair the bearing with glue because that part was absolute nonsense. Grease cured it.

Like you are the bost

Gaming chairs r fucking shite! Had to sell one due to a really sore tailbone!

Why does every youtuber think they need to get a shot of themselves holding their chin and staring thoughtfully into the air for use in their vid thumb? Think for yourself. Come up with your own idea.

Bruh tf is a build DeLorean lmao