dear staples...
Jun. 12th, 2016 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoelevenplease die.
the bolts you used for my fancy-ass office chair aren't standard. i have no idea where to get them. they're definitely M8, but the thread pitch is strange; it seems they're 1.5 rather than 1.25. god alone knows where your shitty subcontractor found them. the heads are also weird, being wide hex heads with holes for hex keys. i can't find any like them.
the bolt hole manufacture is worse. there are three holes in the bottom of the chair that hold the back on, two in front and one in back. the one in back appears tapped incorrectly; bolts bind in it when they're most of the way in. i've got that bolt mostly in place with a pair of washers taking up the slack, but i shouldn't need 2mm of washers on a 16mm bolt.
the front two holes aren't tapped square with the surface of the chair, so the bolts go in at a slight angle. this means that they're holding the back on by just one edge. that's simply bad workmanship. i'll need to get some sort of deformable washer for them.
that's assuming i keep the chair at all. maybe i'll have y'all pick it up and give me my money back.
again, please die,
--2:11
ps: i strongly recommend people avoid staples furniture. it's strange, because i could have sworn i got my previous -- much cheaper -- chair there. maybe not.
pps: the seat pitch lever doesn't appear to do anything. also, while the lumbar support thing seems like a good idea, it's poorly implemented, and the digs into my back rather than sitting flat against it. another case of poor manufacture. FWIW, this travesty of engineering is the TF1400, model number 28362.
and given the really bad design of what staples is pawning off as a premium chair, i wouldn't mind a little signal boost.
the bolts you used for my fancy-ass office chair aren't standard. i have no idea where to get them. they're definitely M8, but the thread pitch is strange; it seems they're 1.5 rather than 1.25. god alone knows where your shitty subcontractor found them. the heads are also weird, being wide hex heads with holes for hex keys. i can't find any like them.
the bolt hole manufacture is worse. there are three holes in the bottom of the chair that hold the back on, two in front and one in back. the one in back appears tapped incorrectly; bolts bind in it when they're most of the way in. i've got that bolt mostly in place with a pair of washers taking up the slack, but i shouldn't need 2mm of washers on a 16mm bolt.
the front two holes aren't tapped square with the surface of the chair, so the bolts go in at a slight angle. this means that they're holding the back on by just one edge. that's simply bad workmanship. i'll need to get some sort of deformable washer for them.
that's assuming i keep the chair at all. maybe i'll have y'all pick it up and give me my money back.
again, please die,
--2:11
ps: i strongly recommend people avoid staples furniture. it's strange, because i could have sworn i got my previous -- much cheaper -- chair there. maybe not.
pps: the seat pitch lever doesn't appear to do anything. also, while the lumbar support thing seems like a good idea, it's poorly implemented, and the digs into my back rather than sitting flat against it. another case of poor manufacture. FWIW, this travesty of engineering is the TF1400, model number 28362.
and given the really bad design of what staples is pawning off as a premium chair, i wouldn't mind a little signal boost.