Chair Legs (Then & Now)
I spent the better part of the afternoon correcting China's mistake in manufacturing. Who the hell got the idea to angle cut the bottom of the kitchen chair legs.
You could not get a decent slider to fit on them. Plus they kept falling off or wearing premature because only a sharp edge sat on the floor. The legs are also 2" in diameter and hard to find sliders big enough to fit the leg.
It wasn't too bad when the chairs sat on 15 + year old linoleum, but after mom had tile laid in the kitchen the man said to put some decent sliders on the chairs or you risk cracking the tiles.
After fighting with many differnt types of sliders over the past 2-3 years, the last one being a 2 inch diameter wooden jar cap looking thing with felt bottoms that I had to tape on, I did what I never thought I'd have to do to a $1,700 kitchen set. Take a reciprocating saw and cut the bottoms of the legs off.
First I took two 5/8th boards and drilled 2, two and a half inch diameter holes in them to act as a template. Then I set the chair legs through the four holes.
Then I sawed 5/8th of an inch off the bottom of the legs of the four chairs and flat bottomed them. The new sliders are self adhesive, plus there is a counterbored hole to run a wood screw into the legs. The table was made with flat bottom legs, at least the chinese got that part right..Why they didn't flatten the chair legs is beyond me.
This is why we need to make things again in America!!!
Chair Legs (Then & Now)
I spent the better part of the afternoon correcting China's mistake in manufacturing. Who the hell got the idea to angle cut the bottom of the kitchen chair legs.
You could not get a decent slider to fit on them. Plus they kept falling off or wearing premature because only a sharp edge sat on the floor. The legs are also 2" in diameter and hard to find sliders big enough to fit the leg.
It wasn't too bad when the chairs sat on 15 + year old linoleum, but after mom had tile laid in the kitchen the man said to put some decent sliders on the chairs or you risk cracking the tiles.
After fighting with many differnt types of sliders over the past 2-3 years, the last one being a 2 inch diameter wooden jar cap looking thing with felt bottoms that I had to tape on, I did what I never thought I'd have to do to a $1,700 kitchen set. Take a reciprocating saw and cut the bottoms of the legs off.
First I took two 5/8th boards and drilled 2, two and a half inch diameter holes in them to act as a template. Then I set the chair legs through the four holes.
Then I sawed 5/8th of an inch off the bottom of the legs of the four chairs and flat bottomed them. The new sliders are self adhesive, plus there is a counterbored hole to run a wood screw into the legs. The table was made with flat bottom legs, at least the chinese got that part right..Why they didn't flatten the chair legs is beyond me.
This is why we need to make things again in America!!!