[UK-CONTEST] CQ WW CW GM0F SOAB HP

[Col]

I had a friend who did this with a SAAB front seat and can confirm it was
one of the most comfortable chairs you could wish to sit on. Think it was
out of a 9000 series.

Colin GM0RLZ


----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Makins, EI8IC <contesting at eircom.net>
To: Ian White, G3SEK <g3sek at ifwtech.co.uk>
Cc: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CQ WW CW GM0F SOAB HP


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian White, G3SEK" <G3SEK at ifwtech.co.uk>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: 26 November 2002 23:28
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CQ WW CW GM0F SOAB HP
>
>
> > Stewart Wrote:
> >
> > >This year, the big thing to 'sort' is a decent chair.
>
> My recent post to CQ Contest might be of interest to some:
> ********************************************************8
> I needed a different operating chair - the old typist's chair I used
wasn't
> really comfortable for long periods. No spare money to buy a new one...
Then
> an idea occurred - car seats can be very comfortable, and I had a few
spare
> in a couple of old cars on the property. So I removed one of the seats,
> found its centre of gravity by balancing the seat over a thin piece of
2"x1"
> wood strip whilst sitting on it, then welded a couple of 9"x2"x1/4" strips
> to the base. These were bolted to the old typist chair's swivel base, and
> hey presto, a brand new operating chair, very comfortable, and still with
> it's reclining back and headrest.
>
> If you are going to try this, there's one area that can be critical - the
> angle of the seat to the ground. If you look at the base of the seat on
most
> chairs, i.e. the actual surface you sit on, it is generally parallel to
the
> floor. However some car seats are not parallel, but tilt up at the front.
> You will need to correct this otherwise the front of the base will push up
> on the back of your thighs, which isn't comfortable over long periods.
>
> Typist's chair bases are very handy, for their wheels and swivel
facilities,
> but if you don't mind a fixed chair, then a simple set of legs for your
old
> car seat could be made out of a variety of materials, such as wood, rebar,
> tube, or box-section. If you've got a tidier yard than mine, and don't
have
> old cars gently rusting back to nature, your local car-dismantler will
> probably be able to provide a variety of seats for small amounts of money.
>
> 73s Tim EI8IC
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