Anyone near PGH with a welder?

**Kaos** · July 6th, 2008, 05:39 PM

jeez my life has been insane....I havn't been able too get on here long enough to post ina week or two.

Anyways....

I have a project where I want to turn an import style race seat into an office chair. Since it won't be going in my car I didn't get the brackets.

I plan to take a donor office chair and remove its' base and then mate it to the office chair. I figure a little welding and some steel and a new bracket could be made to mate the metal chair base parts to where the bolt holes are on the chair.

Problem is I don't have a welder, know how to weld or any metal tools as such.

I might be able to get away with bolting it, and Im going to try that first, but just wanted to see if anyone in the PGH area might be able to tack something together for me.

Thanks!

**27hand** · July 6th, 2008, 06:03 PM

What kind of time frame are you looking for?

The next couple weeks or 4 are going to be very busy for me but I could probably put some steel shmear on it after.

You might be able to cut both tubes and put a piece of filler steel pipe into what you are doing. Does the finished project have to have some sort of height adjusting mechanism that might be problematic in trying to make work with 2 different chair parts.

I don't have a shop and am getting a 20 x 12 shed which will be a mini shop for stuff like this but it's at least 2 months out with digging, pouring a slab and putting underground conduit in for power and natural gas.That will only happen after i finish the basement floor tile job I am currently doing.

If you can't get it done prior to that, let me know.

27hand

**P-11 shooter** · July 6th, 2008, 06:14 PM

I have an arc welder if you need it. I don't know how thick of metal you're trying to weld, but an arc welder works good on a little thicker stuff. WHile a mig does thinner metal better. However with proper choice of current and electrode the arc welder should weld anything you need it to.

Let me know if you need some welding, I can do it if you buy some rods. The old ones got wet.

**Mtdew** · July 6th, 2008, 06:57 PM

I've got mig, tig, stick, and gas...

But i'm not at all close by anymore.

**P-11 shooter** · July 6th, 2008, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by Mtdew

I've got mig, tig, stick, and gas...

But i'm not at all close by anymore.

All I got is the stick.

P-11that'swhatshesaidSHOOTER

**greasy** · July 7th, 2008, 12:05 AM

I have a buddy up in pittsburgh who welds. He works for a commercial welding company, but I'm assuming he has his own welder and can do small things.

Let me know if you get stuck and want me to give him a shout.
(he also happens to have an absurdly impressive gun collection. lives out in sewickly)

**Kaos** · July 7th, 2008, 10:16 AM

Thanks for the responses!

the frame itself is pretty simple.

Im just taking the bottom off of a working office chair and need to make a frame to mate it to the threaded inserts in the seat I got.

It hasnt been shipped yet so no rush at the moment.

The frame could be as easy as a simple "H" shape with two horizontal pieces.

The idea is that the four corners of the seat is where the threads are, so run few pieces of square tube between them (forming the verticals of the H) then run two pieces horizontally tacked to those tubes. Then the chair base would bolt to those horizontal pieces.

Im not concerned about the arm rests at the moment, but I will have a set that could be mounted in similar fashion.

I still need to have the race seat shipped to me, and then need to nab a base off of a broken office chair from work and then buy the steel I think I will need.

Should result in one seriously cool and comfy office chair