It works thanks you

Thank you for this video! It worked for me too. I had a bunch of trouble with using a mallet but a real hammer was the trick for me.

this video makes the base removal look so easy. i was bashing it with a mallet for half an hour and it didnt seem to budge at all. i put some oil on there, gonna leave it overnight. hopefully it will move

You did not show how to remove cylinder in video.

Thank you so much. I had to replace one of those cheep steel bases since one of the wheel holes got broken. Hitting with the side of the hammer was very effective as I didn't have a rubber mallet on hand and I was afraid of breaking the cylinder after some hard whacks with the head of the hammer.

Thank you, SO much good sir. Other people say use the wrench and twist the chair till it pops out or something, none of them work. You saved me from destroying my dumb chair, and for that I thank you. You've gained a sub from me.

Sir, I salute you. I lost several hours with wrench without even single thought try hammer instead. All was done in 5 minutes afterwards

A very good video. Thank you for posting. I just did mine & the bottom part, (the wheels) came off easy. The top part was more difficult & I was thinking "Maybe mine has a nut on the top", but I persevered & off it finally came. I then rubbed around both holes with 240 grit sandpaper for about 30 seconds, then a clean cloth to remove any grit or dust.. Next, I wiped a very thin coat of copper grease in the recess' before putting the new ram in. It shouldn't be too difficult to remove next time. 😉

hey how do you lower these brand of chairs?

Hope the following tip is useful to others: Long story short, if the pipe wrench is not budging the old gas piston, get a blow dryer or a heat gun (basically the macho tool version of a blow dryer) and point it as the base of the gas piston (i.e. where it enters the seat) for a good 10-20 minutes. I'm in the middle of doing a gas piston replace on a second chair, and I had hoped it would be easier than the first, but it looks like I'm going to have to pull out the blow dryer again. As other commenters have said, I tried all the obvious tricks. My pipe wrench actually cut GROOVES in the metal of the old gas piston. The blow dryer worked. I'm still not sure why. Obviously metal expands when it heats up, maybe some combination of that expansion breaking the seal, or just forcing the hole to widen, or the heat softening the plastic sleeve it slots into. Any way you slice it, it worked.

I pulled the pin out already. What is the name of the pin on the office chair base? Where can i buy them?

My Ikea Markus drove me nuts for >1h but after this video I prevailed in 2min!!

Y un huevo,,,,que facil lo pones...😂😂

I had to partially take my chair apart and beat the living tar out of the cylinder mechanism but eventually it came out. My pipe wrench just wasnt doing the trick and I almost gave up but at least I can keep my chair

Thank you. Your sideways hammer tech gave me the confidence I needed to use a bigger hammer. Baby sledge finally got the freaking base off. Jfc.

Can I put back a removed cylinder in the chair. I missed to put the covers for the cylinders while assembling a new chair so was thinking if its a good idea to remove the cylinder and put back the covers and then put back the cylinder in

Best video ever! I didn't have a pipe wrench, so this hammer method worked great. Thanks for the instructions!

Me: I'm sorry little one 🔨 🪑: NOOO

All I wanted to do was replace my chair base but instead the base PLUS cylinder came off and I still can’t get the base off the cylinder.

cheers, watched a few videos and couldn't work it out, your suggestion you might have to use a lot of force on the pipe wrench to break things free did the job. Literally jumped on it and it came free.

To get the cylinder out of the chair, use channel locks pliers or even a pipe wrench and turn it, it will come right out.

Question, I found 1000 lb shocks on the jungle site. I'm a big guy are they really 1000lb shocks or are they fluffing the numbers?

how do i know which kind of cylinder to buy? should there be a model # somewhere i can look for on the chair?

Got a warranty replacement cylinder for my chair. Had no idea how to replace it. Found the original assembly instructions online. They were of no help. Fortunately, I came across the link for this video. Saved me! By the way, folks, most office chairs have a long warranty. Mine was from Staples, and it has an 11-year warranty on the cylinder.

Amazing. A few well-placed hammer taps is all it ended up taking. Wish I had watched this video before trying to hammer it into oblivion (per other online advice). Thanks so much for posting!!!

what a life saver

You are the best! Worked like magic!!!

For some reason my black bar part is keeping the chair wheels from sitting, i think getting it from rent to own they assembled it wrong, since i paid it off i cannot get help from them sadly, because that base is stuck to the wheels base.

Hammer for the win!!! Thanks.

One thing I noticed is he wrenches the cylinder in the opposite direction of other videos that go clockwise. But overall great video

The pipe wrench method is the only method I know of .I also just found out they make a tool to remove gas cylinder

Ughhhhhh

What if it’s cracked and the cylinder snapped over time and the too part is in the mech??

Tried the hammer and pipe wrench and soaked it with wd40 would not budge. Ended up using a press. Had to remove the up down paddle to get a solid fitting on the cylinder to make a good contact. Did the trick. Was apparently pretty rusty.

you are a god send, i spent hours trying to do this and after watching your video i did it so fast, thank you so much!

Perfect!!! The easiest way to do it!! I appreciate you.

Do you have more recommended tricks because I did the hammer trick and it won't come off no matter how hard i try like it's literally stucked, and i also don't have a pipe wrench. I also tried applying some oil hoping it could help in loosening it up but it's still the same :(

Very helpful i changed it in 5min with hammer . Thanks a lot!

The hammer trick helped immensely, thank you for the helpful tips!

Thank you, you just save me money

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"the base pops right off". YOU SIT ON A THRONE OF LIES!

Thanks for posting, excellent video! Based on the chair back style, I have a similar model chair to this one (though that doesn't matter). The lower assembly came off the chair just fine, it's the bottom, where the legs and piston meet that was a bear for me. Other videos talk about using a wrench to pull the piston/cylinder out, however this video talks about whacking the piston from the bottom to finally get it out. That did the trick. I should also mention, I did this in my garage. Took a lot of whacks with a heavy woodcutting axe with a sledgehammer head. I kept marking the location where the piston went into the chair mechanism, so I could tell if I was making progress. I was, but got frustrated and stopped. It was a colder day, so say 32F or so. I left it there for about an hour. My wife suggested perhaps it'd contract in that time. I went out, and in two whacks, the piston finally dislodged. We'll never know if it was the cold or it just needed those last few hits to get the piston out. I should mention, the chair got a lot of use (and not by lightweights either) for the last 6 weeks, so it was in there pretty good.

Thank you, this is exactly what i needed to see to finally dismantle it!

The amount of frustration you just saved me. Thank you!

Thank you!

Just went through this tonight. First I removed or thought I removed the cylinder from the caster area by removing the clip and sliding the cylinder out. Except not really the shell it slid out of was still there as I learned later. I chewed up the metal on the cylinder quite well with the wrench before it finally popped off of the base when the seal broke. I felt so proud. Was all set to replace it and then I saw the shell part of the cylinder was still in the caster area. Whacked it with the only hammer I had a plastic mallet and it's not coming out. Hoping a rubber mallet or claw hammer does the trick tomorrow.

Thanks

Excellent all the way through! I got my old cylinder off following your instructions, after failing to do so following a number of other KZfaq videos. Thank you so much!