Reclining Chair Tear-Down for The Motorized Mechanism

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Reclining Chair Tear-Down for The Motorized Mechanism

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4 жыл бұрын

I originally made this video for my "Scrap bin" channel:
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But felt it was good enough to post here.
What do you think? Rebuild this with a proper wooden frame, of scrap it down for the parts? Interesting thing to do with the motor and lead screw mechanism is to make a TV lift, but I don't need one of those.
Could just leave it as it is as a piece of kinetic art, just run it in a continuous loop. Just watch your fingers in those pinch points!
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@JohnHeisz 4 жыл бұрын

I originally made this video for my "Scrap bin" channel: kzfaq.info But felt it was good enough to post here. What do you think? Rebuild this with a proper wooden frame, of scrap it down for the parts? Interesting thing to do with the motor and lead screw mechanism is to make a TV lift, but I don't need one of those. Could just leave it as it is as a piece of kinetic art, just run it in a continuous loop. Just watch your fingers in those pinch points!

@CotyWK 4 жыл бұрын

John Heisz - I Build It please rebuild it the way a woodworrker would. I have a leather version of this and the motor died on me so I’m looking at projects for the internals too.

@tylerpestell 4 жыл бұрын

You should totally make it into a chair! I

@IR-nq4qv 4 жыл бұрын

Build a new 2 piece(removable back for door clearance), smooth contoured see through chair with Plexiglas, wood and epoxy resin so you can see the inner full workings of the electrical and mechanical.

@donyoshi6076 4 жыл бұрын

My deceased father would have definitely repurpose that mechanism for something. I like the idea of an outdoor lounger that sits under a large umbrella. Built in beer cooler,optional .Cheers bud...

@AnthonyBowman 4 жыл бұрын

Can we get more John Heisz After Dark vids too? Definitely build a new chair, or use the mechanism to upgrade your camera gantry!

@davelowe1977 4 жыл бұрын

You'll take the motor out and store it for 20 years, falling over it daily. Eventually you'll take it to the dump, then you'll need it immediately.

@Yonatan24 4 жыл бұрын

It's a standard linear actuator. I scavenged one from a bed thrown out in the curb. I just used it a few days ago to push back a heavy closet into its place, after I moved it and it somehow got stuck. Took 10 seconds!

@Yonatan24 4 жыл бұрын

But the mechanism that attaches to the linear actuator, is very cool.

@tuesboomer1623 4 жыл бұрын

In those same 20 years people will be saying, 'they just don't build 'em like this anymore.'

@jeremyspecce 4 жыл бұрын

David Lowe it's the earrings my wife had. For YEARS she had one earring and had lost the other of the pair. Finally she got tired of the one that she still had reminding her that she had lost one, so she threw it out. The NEXT DAY (after the garbage had been picked up, of course) she found the missing one.

@Wordsnwood 4 жыл бұрын

This looks like the start of a terrifying Halloween animatronic nightmare

@BillSmithem 4 жыл бұрын

Insectoid... footrest hardware looks like a praying mantis

@woody350ep1 4 жыл бұрын

My brain instantly went to using something like this for a large scale animated Halloween prop.

@johnkarapita437 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely rebuild it but you have to add the Steve Austin bionic sound effects.

@waynecreech 4 жыл бұрын

Today on I Build it, We demonstrate how to field dress the big game chair you just shot :p

@jnjarvis1 4 жыл бұрын

John losing his cool and giving focus the business was pure gold

@SteveC38 4 жыл бұрын

I loved this video John! And yes, I think that an elegant high quality wooden chair (with no cushions) would be awesome!

@Mandurath 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@Grumpyneanderthal 4 жыл бұрын

Stone lift for building pyramids

@SteveC38 4 жыл бұрын

lmao

@DonnaMSchmid 4 жыл бұрын

You got 6 years from a $400 chair? Wow! I'm impressed! I got only 2 years from a $1000 La-z-boy... I couldn't believe how cheap and unstable they are now!

@dwightl5863 4 жыл бұрын

Though John didn't admit it that OSB was pretty darn tough to take bust apart.

@satxsatxsatx 4 жыл бұрын

John, you're much more entertaining when you're half drunk :)

@garethsnaim8174 4 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say he seems half cut, haha

@mrhumptydee 4 жыл бұрын

Try playing it at x 0.75 speed! 😀....now where's those munchies!!

@AZ-Patriot 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Angry, drunken John is hilarious. I think he might actually be my spirit animal.

@DodgerOfSheep 4 жыл бұрын

Much more cursing. I love it.

@mqL49J 4 жыл бұрын

The violent cold open and the ending bit looping back to it chronologically, might be acid.

@PrimalEdge 4 жыл бұрын

“Strip off all this shit right here”, was exactly what I said to my ex wife the night we met... in retrospect, her all to eager compliance should have been a sign.

@TheSadButMadLad 4 жыл бұрын

The mech looks like two praying mantis reaching out.

@Dosbomber 4 жыл бұрын

Alien horror movie prop.

@warrenbesore7421 4 жыл бұрын

My thought too.

@dennischamberlain2600 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely chair build. A wooden recliner would look awesome.

@KarlBunker 4 жыл бұрын

It looks like the Terminator T-800 with its flesh removed.

@cumhachd 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking ! How do we know these chairs weren't sent from the future by the robot overlords for the bots to recline in for their oil changes?

@bruceboggemes9724 4 жыл бұрын

Reprogram it and send it back in time to yourself

@Martyr217 4 жыл бұрын

Lmao that's the first time I've ever heard you swear on here and it was only 30 seconds in. Keep up the good work.

@Daninashed 4 жыл бұрын

Watch the one where he's connecting his floor heating system on the home reno channel - I learned a few new swearwords myself on that one!

@davelowe1977 4 жыл бұрын

My girlfriend had a sofa made like that. I cut it in half with recip saw inside 30 seconds. It was quite therapeutic.

@allanjorgensen9138 4 жыл бұрын

Great idea John. My 20+ year old chair got dirty and worn out but the mechanism was still very good, just manual. I stripped out the mechanism and built a cherry Morris Chair frame, installed the mechanism, had a new cushion made and I reupholstered the rest using the same material as the cushion. I'm loving it, so go for it.

@binnsbrian 4 жыл бұрын

Photos?

@madkate4107 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see this!

@secretredfoxx1 4 жыл бұрын

My dream is to have a decently sized shop space where I can get slightly inebriated and tear apart my cheap used furniture and old electronics

@markhedquist9597 2 жыл бұрын

Two words: seat beads. That's how you beat the sticky, sweaty, leather chair. They are are gift from the gods.

@abuk44 4 жыл бұрын

"It's like cutting chicken" "here is the wing" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@PenguinOldTimeRadio 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely make a hardwood frame...maybe even a motorized deck chair or something...or add wheels and another motor and make a miniature bobcat kinda thing!

@benjaminbrewer2154 4 жыл бұрын

Animatronic dinosaur.

@DIYBuilds 4 жыл бұрын

Earlier this year I got my grandmas old lift chair and harvested 2 linear actuators from it.... still working what cool thing I'm going to make with them.

@DIYBuilds 4 жыл бұрын

Ohh ya and make a new wood chair from the old one, would be interesting to see

@brianturnbough 4 жыл бұрын

This might be the funniest video of yours. Lol. Especially the outtakes at the end. The exasperation is pretty damn funny. We all know how that feels. Go with it.

@Somethingfunnee 4 жыл бұрын

After watching this video I subbed! Funny, creative, and loved it

@KellyEUTAH 4 жыл бұрын

I love how REAL you are in this video!

@AbouzarKaboudian 4 жыл бұрын

Build a wooden chair around it! That would be the coolest project ;-)

@SteveSurgenor 4 жыл бұрын

I used the mechanism to open and shut my shed window, practically identical chair in Scotland !

@markrowland5393 4 жыл бұрын

Loved the video, especially when I thought you were going to attack the chair with an angle grinder. My vote would be for you to build a new chair. Can't wait to see all the comments from the safety trolls about getting sensitive parts of your anatomy getting trapped in the mechanism!

@FredMcIntyre 4 жыл бұрын

I like where this is going! 😃 ..... So glad you found those screws on the control plate in time! 😁👍🏻👊🏻

@dale1956ties 3 жыл бұрын

"Like cutting up chicken" is where you got me. It was at that point that I subbed while laughing out loud. The naked frame vaguely reminds me of the pods in 2001 a Space Odyssey. I guess it's the outstretched arms that look a bit a pod to me.

@comfortablyplumb2140 4 жыл бұрын

New chair! I cant even picture a wood recliner

@madkate4107 3 жыл бұрын

me either. I just sounds horribly uncomfortable

@Troph2 4 жыл бұрын

Not sure what kind of hobbies you are into but my old roommate used a frame like this to make the ultimate PC racing simulator that could go from upright (rally car) to reclined F1 style race car.

@neathway382 4 жыл бұрын

The chair idea is cool. The motor, and lead screw, might also make for the basis of an interesting vice build.

@wingnutbert9685 4 жыл бұрын

Outtake: A daily scene in my shop! LMAO!!! Definitely do a rebuild!!!! Minimal to keep the skeleton showing for sure. Something I've used on a number of seating projects that give the performance of leather with even easier cleaning is motorcycle seat/saddle upholstery. 1-2" closed cell, dense foam or neoprene for a low profile modernist/industrial look. Now ur gonna get my eye-balling every recliner I see at the side of the road...... thanks a lot!!

@russellborrego1689 4 жыл бұрын

Please... Rebuild! I'd love to see your take on it. Especially since I don't imagine you (like most of us males), have sewing skills. I've researched the idea of making couches and recliners for years now, the sewing has always been the real obstacle... And no one really has presented an alternative that looks good.

@heroindoses1991 4 жыл бұрын

I'm excited to watch you build this into something, anything. But a new hardwood chair with cushions would be pretty sweet!

@pipercub45 4 жыл бұрын

Quite entertaining! Looks like you were having lots of fun.

@VW.907 4 жыл бұрын

That's the wing! I kinda want to see what you'd build all wood. But that motor, who knows what you would come up with.

@coeneschamaun1735 2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't help but start giggling as you started destroying the chair, haha!! I am, however, going to try to figure out the hardware placement, and *repair* mine (several fasteners have either come out or broke. Now I have to figure out where they were....)

@mikeporter59 4 жыл бұрын

This is such a good idea, and fun to watch. I hope you make the project.

@MazMaslin 4 жыл бұрын

With a bit of playing about, that would make an excellent sim racing setup! Cheers for the inspiration.

@johnpaholski9256 4 жыл бұрын

Hi John. A young child was strangled by a reclining chair in Australia a few years back so safety needs to be taken into account. I enjoy your videos thank you.

@tparker 4 жыл бұрын

Seeing you come up with a chair design would be really cool to watch. You come up with so many cool things, though, anything you decide to do will be fun to watch. Great video!

@harrymiley3707 4 жыл бұрын

This video lowered my stress level. Thank you.

@DancingCurrently 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! I really appreciate your use of the word "shit." Very funny.

@bighorn4908 4 жыл бұрын

I can’t wait to see what you do with it!

@DonJohn87_YT 4 жыл бұрын

Man this is gonna be one awesome looking chair! :D

@Jimmeh_B 4 жыл бұрын

As a mechanic, it never ceases to amaze me how people can look at a couch or an arm chair (at least this one has a few moving parts, but a lounge chair has not a single moving part) and say things like "what are you gonna get for $400?". You can buy an entire working registerable CAR for $400!!!! Clearly I'm in the wrong game.

@theothermarshal 4 жыл бұрын

"That's the wing." Great video and I'm voting for a minimalist recliner build. I also have to say I am worried about the pressure of fame becoming too much for Focus as it would seem he is having a hard time staying away from the corn liquor.

@DonDIYProject 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like an alien robot😊😊😊 Looking forward what you're going to make with that.

@soberlivingwithbrianfrankl8254 4 жыл бұрын

We need another outtakes video. Love the two u have! Good stuff

@EYALAVRAHAMI 4 жыл бұрын

That could be the coolest project EVER! would love to see that happend!

@unklekranky 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, rebuild it! I'm thinking of doing the same thing to an old recliner and have no idea where to start.

@jameslabs1 Жыл бұрын

Very cool and useful. Thanks

@bmbarnes34 4 жыл бұрын

This is the BEST unboxing video I’ve ever seen.

@scottsimpey2965 4 жыл бұрын

I think that would be an awesome build video to turn that into a wooden chair. It would also be a very interesting piece once done as you were saying being able to see the bare mechanism. It would certainly be an eye catcher and conventional piece if nothing else.

@Keasbeysknight 4 жыл бұрын

This maybe your best video yet. I think you need to make a chair and add speakers to it too. Cause... Why not

@diggler306 4 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to see where this goes!!

@patmash 4 жыл бұрын

Build it john. Great content.

@martinjohnstone4297 4 жыл бұрын

Rebuilt chair would be amazing!

@blainetoalston5945 2 жыл бұрын

Best video yet! Not because I think You need to cuss, but because it seemed real. Like an everyday Guys Workshop!

@scruffster2497 4 жыл бұрын

John, get a nice throw blanket to cover the leather chair in summer. Cool to the touch n washable. They do slide a bit though but I love mine.

@jcberb 3 жыл бұрын

That looks cool.

@mmmmmmm8706 4 жыл бұрын

That would be a cool project and you'd solve your chair problem. Build it how u want it.

@regularguy9264 4 жыл бұрын

You could use the remaining metal frame and motor to build a Halloween or Christmas animatronics decoration. Better yet, design it so that you can easily switch it between the two! Imagine the number of views and the new audience you would draw in.

@abaker7615 4 жыл бұрын

I would vote for a Morris Chair style, possible incorporate a foot stool into the design to use the full mechanism.

@Feathercraft275 4 жыл бұрын

Me, too. My wife actually wants me to do that to two old La-Z-boys. Now I know how to begin the project, but am lost from there. If anyone can figure it out, it would be John. Go for it!

@allenbourassa1579 4 жыл бұрын

Love the video,wish it was longer!You should make a wooden Adirondack type chair,that you can sit back and relax on your deck,and think of your next project!

@Traderjoe 4 жыл бұрын

I think it might make an interesting snow shoveling machine

@BCElginTex 4 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to see what you do with that mechanism.

@davesmith7671 4 жыл бұрын

I used one of these a few years back and made a motorised router table . Was pretty good just didn't have a way to adjust height in really small increments.

@blainetoalston5945 2 жыл бұрын

An Amish Barrington Style Recliner but with an Electronic Drive! That would be A Great build!

@j.m.castilla7150 4 жыл бұрын

Great thanks for your videos A greeting from Spain

@adrianjones1352 4 жыл бұрын

Hard wood John - like to see that!

@voidtv1 4 жыл бұрын

love it ... with the grinder ; )

@willybaetens4648 4 жыл бұрын

Now it looks like an Alien Ant. Cool. Thumbs up. Willy from Belgium

@paulmantegna76 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! A hardwood chair with removable cushions would look cool.

@cwp000 4 жыл бұрын

Cool indeed. Build the chair!

@jamesheimberger432 4 жыл бұрын

Your skelechair idea is awesome...so would an automatic outfeed support for the tablesaw lol

@stephenshipley1066 4 жыл бұрын

Hard wood frame and slats to leave that beautiful mechanism exposed. Add cushions with zip-off covers for cleaning. LED lighting below like some custom cards ;-)

@63256325N 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video.

@frasergreig 4 жыл бұрын

This is cool. I liked the end bit when you saw it naked and got inspired... Be interested to see what you do as I have two worn out recliners (manual, not electric) but may be able to get some inspiration from your project to give them some more life. Hope you do it (but if you do go a different direction, I'll still be interested!!!!) Thanks for the content as always John!

@nuddsshane 4 жыл бұрын

I worry the mechanisms might fail but I dont think ive seen a video like this. Bell hit!!! I really want to see this progress to its final conclusion... good or bad

@tuesboomer1623 4 жыл бұрын

"like cutting up a chicken!" True.😆 Go for the build! Pretty neat to watch the articulating, if sloppy, mechanism.

@vertigo72480_official 4 жыл бұрын

John Heisz - uncensored, uncut and uncaring. I love these honest videos.

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome "disassembly"... For the up-cycling I'd definitely call Matthias W.

@MusicalBox 4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, I'd really like to see you build a new chair around this mechanism

@SpaceInvader78 4 жыл бұрын

Can you use the motor assembly to make a router lift or something for the shop?

@didms1526 4 жыл бұрын

Haha John you humour is brilliant 😂

@Gforceracing20 4 жыл бұрын

A hardwood recliner sounds Awesome!

@reapergrim84 4 жыл бұрын

Rebiulding it would be great!!!

@jonwolf461 4 жыл бұрын

Build a nice looking, multiple wood essence, reclining chair. With curved arm rest this thig would look good. Either that or flip it upside down and make a robot walking chair. :) Cheers from Canada!

@mihamaker 4 жыл бұрын

Hi there John, rebuild for sure. like you said, wooden frame, mechanics exposed... I see partially adirondack look with cushions that can be machine washed. Also an option, self driven with reducers and crank by hand, and drill driven ;-) nice project definitely! Stay well!

@josheppley2767 4 жыл бұрын

Rebuild! A reclining adirondak chair would be awesome

@CitizenAyellowblue 4 жыл бұрын

Ooh, that crunching sound....!

@cobberpete1 4 жыл бұрын

How about a coffee table, with the 'Foot rest', a small lifting table that comes up when you need it for some notebook type work. Then you can sit in your lounge, have this brilliant, and immediately, hit the button, raise the table and do some work without having to go into the office. Ok, Ok, just a thought don't slag me off. :)

@mhpjii 4 жыл бұрын

Build it, John!

@wdh375xen 4 жыл бұрын

Hard to imagine what your rebuild will look like but I’m sure it’ll be great!

@servant74 4 жыл бұрын

I would love a wood recliner. Go ahead and show us how!

@wcherry72 3 жыл бұрын

I think that would make a cool fold away work station.

@seanmacdonald5255 4 жыл бұрын

I wish that I had seen this 3 months ago. The wooden frame (left side and back) for my power lift recliner broke and dumped me off while punching a big hole in the drywall behind it. Like yours, the frame was OSB and little bit of solid wood plus a box of staples. OSB doesn't hold staples well at all. I was too pissed at the chair to rebuild it but I might have tried if I had seen a video like this.