Make your own "rover chair"

[Gazzab]

I am hoping someone knows more than me re how I can get frames made up to make some chairs? See the pic below. I have two old Jag seats and want to mount them like below. I have no idea what sort of co can make me the frames? I live near Sheffield and so I guess there are lots of metal works places...?

Any ideas?
thanks
(hope this is the right section of PH!).

[hornetrider]

Awesome. Perfect gaming chair!

I was in an Alfa garage at the weekend and his office chair was a GTA drivers seat!

[Gazzab]

Thanks for the reply! Yeah I want a lounger - one for each of my boys bedrooms.
So I guess a fabricator could make me the frame and I could hammerite it.. I work by the barbican and Arad (the designer of the chair - I know I know....!) has a show here in a couple of weeks. So I might inspect the original for ideas. Looking on Google images there seems to be a mix of powder coated and hammerited ones. Hammeriting will be easy for me to do at home.
Just wonder what I should pay for fabrication.

[Dr.Doofenshmirtz]

Couldent you just use a normal office chair base, and weld the car seat and frame to that?

[Gazzab]

Just bumped into a chap who has his own furniture business. He tells me I need a 'Precision Engineer' to make the frame (and that he can powder coat etc)...

[Pothole]

Gazzab said:

Just bumped into a chap who has his own furniture business. He tells me I need a 'Precision Engineer' to make the frame (and that he can powder coat etc)...

do you bks, you just need someone who can bend pipes...Mikey Teutel seems to be largely unemployed these days, or is he an artist?

[williamp]

even easier: if you take the seat AND its runners, then you simply need to mount the runners to horizontal pieces of metal, and you'll keep all the ajdustment (manual or electronic too)

If it was me (one day...) I would start from there, and work down to the castors. Horizintal bits, going onto a vertical swivelling pole, down to castors- cut an old chair to suit. Small battery pack (the seats must be 12v, so you could use a small motorbike battery, perhaps?) and have full adjuistment.

I want to do the same with a porsche 944 sports seat. The comfiest seat I have ever sat in.

[Bill]

Couldn't you bolt something together from a railing manufacturer? Something like this

[jhfozzy]

Not mine, shamelessly robbed from the MLR courtesy of Lee@FCM.

Passenger seat from an Evo VI Tommy Makinen edition.

[Wayne King]

Pothole said:

Gazzab said:

Just bumped into a chap who has his own furniture business. He tells me I need a 'Precision Engineer' to make the frame (and that he can powder coat etc)...

do you bks, you just need someone who can bend pipes...Mikey Teutel seems to be largely unemployed these days, or is he an artist?

And you would trust Mikey?!! Now Vinnie would do a st hot job

[Engineer1]

Wayne King said:

Pothole said:

Gazzab said:

Just bumped into a chap who has his own furniture business. He tells me I need a 'Precision Engineer' to make the frame (and that he can powder coat etc)...

do you bks, you just need someone who can bend pipes...Mikey Teutel seems to be largely unemployed these days, or is he an artist?

And you would trust Mikey?!! Now Vinnie would do a st hot job

What about Paul Jr? with his design company??

[Andehh]

Just Google metal fabricators in your area, they should be able to bend the tube & weld it up for you.

[Wayne King]

Engineer1 said:

Wayne King said:

Pothole said:

Gazzab said:

Just bumped into a chap who has his own furniture business. He tells me I need a 'Precision Engineer' to make the frame (and that he can powder coat etc)...

do you bks, you just need someone who can bend pipes...Mikey Teutel seems to be largely unemployed these days, or is he an artist?

And you would trust Mikey?!! Now Vinnie would do a st hot job

What about Paul Jr? with his design company??

I'm sure Paul Jr could, but it would take him about a year to finish it! And i would trust Vinnie or Rick more

[danielray]

I must share this news. Went shopping at Staples and sighted a few new products in the office chair department. Staples now carries very exclusive looking designer chairs from CHARLES EAMES. The sales person did not even know. The cartons just say "Designer Chair reproduction", but the Eames design is so famous, you can't miss it. They have three versions: A padded office chair with high back (named Quinto ), a padded office chair in lower back (named Amalfi), and a very slick looking version.

[loftylad]

danielray said:

I must share this news. Went shopping at Staples and sighted a few new products in the office chair department. Staples now carries very exclusive looking designer chairs from CHARLES EAMES. The sales person did not even know. The cartons just say "Designer Chair reproduction", but the Eames design is so famous, you can't miss it. They have three versions: A padded office chair with high back (named Quinto ), a padded office chair in lower back (named Amalfi), and a very slick looking version.

Which branch of Staples do you work in ?

[TonyHetherington]

None....he, "it", was a new type of automated forum spam which is now obviously long gone.