i wanted to change the gas spring of my office chair and have a really hard time to remove the upper part from the lower part of the chair. i saw a video where a dude just hammers it from the top with a steel rod but that is difficult in my case because it gets blocked be the metal thin that hold the backrest. so i thought i could use a wrench that has a good form to press on to it from the side. but because the spring has a button, which i cant press down anymore, it is stuckedstill no success when i hammer it, so did i fucked up every possible way to remove the spring of any othere ideas how i can remove it from the bottom side? thanks
>>2789222from that position, hold the metal part (not the gas cylinder) and tap it with a hammer from below-upwardsthe shock should release the cylinder and it should just fall outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-ZFo0SneU
>>2789343thanks, i tried the hammer trick now few times really hammer it as near as possible. nothing. but i will keep trying that, seems the most promising yet
>>2789349if you are throwing out the old cylinder you can pipe wrench it, i guess
>>2789353yeah i tried the pipewrench as well, nothing it just damages the metal outside of the cyclinder
just buy a new one u fuggin moron
>>2789360i need the money for drugs and the chair costed 300 buck 8years ago.
got it not with the pipe wrench. thanks for the video. was quite rusty inside. have a fun weekend everybody
