Re: Safety of observing chair

From: Mark Wagner (mgw@No-Spam)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 15:18:12 MST


P T Chambers (ptchamb@No-Spam) said...

>I doubt if this has ever happened to a commercial chair with someone
>"seated" in it.
>
>The starbound has a bad tendency to do that when unloaded. The homemade
>jobs do that when the glue on the "tread" material (used for friction)
>comes loose. But the starbound, and the buyastrostuff, chairs use the
>leverage of the "setee" to hold even tighter.
>
>I could probably make one of them do that if I "greased" the surfaces but
>otherwise, I would consider it hype.

I have a Starbound Chair. I've taken a quick ride down on it a few times,
and have seen others do the same.

It is humorous, when it happens to someone else.

I think it happens when you unconsciously "tip" the seat up a bit, either
with a misplaced hand, or the back of a leg, while placing posterior on
plastic.

It wakes you up.

Mark



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