Here is our eighteen months old corgi. I share my office space with him. If you pay enough attention you'll find that arm chair, next to which dog lays, does not have wheels. I had to get rid of them to provide safety for the dog . Easy to say but not so easy to do. Office arm chairs with no wheels do not exist. I could not find one neither in local stores, no online. At the beginning I replaced arm chair with regular home chair, but later I decided to proceed with DIY modification of my old office chair.
Here are some steps of this project.
Body of stands I made out of wooden post taken from broken hat hanger. Some additional components I bought in Home Depot: felt glides for chair legs and drywall anchors.
Anchors I screwed into holes where wheels previously resided. Anchors fitted perfectly apart to be a little long. That I fixed by cutting there ends with the metal hacksaw. Here is anchor in place.
Five wooden cylinders I cut from the post. Then I drilled them through whole length with 1/8 '' drill and after that with 11/32 drill only half length. I put anchor screw inside and then taped plastic glide socket into hole. Below you can see wooden stand ready to be attached to the chair.
Now my office mate my occupy any place in the office he wants. I never will harm him by accidently rolling the chair fast. But if needed I may slowly glide chair over hardwood floor.
I published this project on to Instructables website and submitted it into "Unusual Uses" contest. For such a modest project it was accepted well enough. Editor of the site featured submission and even included it into e-mail newsletter. Some users favorited this project. Maybe I have a chance to win some prize?
Update on 07/24/23. I just got comment on Instructables that actually chair wheel replacement available to buy. Indeed search through Amazon for ""Office Chair Feet Glides" reveals a lot of them. If only I knew before I would buy it and not "invent the wheel" myself.
