Useful Life Extended 9/17/22
This stool has been used by three teachers over the past three decades. Thirty years ago, after teaching in classrooms with concrete floors, Sue developed knee problems (and eventually had a double knee replacement). We found two oak bar stools at an estate sale. Sue placed one in her classroom to periodically “get off her knees.” The other stool was loaned to a fellow teacher who had recently had a foot operation.
The usable life of Sue’s stool ended a few years before she retired. She finished her teaching career with the previously loaned stool. After retirement that stool went to our basement until our teacher daughter asked to take it to her classroom. However, last year that stool developed a few issues, e.g., a cracked leg, ball bearing loss from the swivel mechanism. She brought to me hoping it could be repaired.
The crack in the leg was glued and not so pretty but functional metal supports were added. A generic swivel mechanism found on Amazon was adapted by re-drilling the attachments slots and bending the corner tabs on the bottom plate so it align with the angle of the legs. A birch plywood plate also was added to the underside of the seat so longer screws could be used to connect it to the top plate of the swivel mechanism.
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