I got this stool from the recycle centre. They don’t usually let you take stuff but made an exception. This stool is just what I needed, the right height for use with my up-desk when my feet have had enough, and as a big bonus the top swivels, which is great as I stand/sit at the corner of a L shaped desk.
Why was it thrown? One cheap and nasty plastic foot was missing! Nothing else wrong with it!
A quick 3D print and it’s on it’s way to being fixed. Simple two cylinder design with a 5 degree off horizontal crop at the bottom to make the core follow the angled leg and the base touch the floor fully. When my local Makerspace is fully operational we might advertise at the recycle centre, so much stuff being thrown because people don’t have the knowledge or tools to fix things.
I made replacement feet for a friend’s Ikea sofa. You would think that a store like Ikea would sell spare parts, but I guess they’d much rather you buy a whole new piece of furniture.
IKEA is the best of all of them for spare parts, and they don’t charge. But loads of people don’t think to ask.
And 3D printed spare parts are much cooler:-)
Maybe your local store is different, but the IKEA store here in Portland broke open a box to give me a rather large wooden part. They also have good deals on their old display models and returned items.
No idea. I haven’t shopped in Ikea for ages as the place drives me insane:-) I think his sofa was an old model, so possibly parts not available any more? In any case, it was interesting to make new feet. I also like the idea of @Mark_MARKSE_Emery “rescuing” a chair.
Thanks Louise. Not being happy with something if its less than perfect is I think part of the problem. It worries me when China buys up land in other countries to strip it of some raw material. Mankind in general is too much of a throw-away species. Agent Smith’s lines in The Matrix had it spot on:
“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.”
I’m in New Zealand and we have a set of identical stools. It’s a small world.
