Concerns 1. The plastic pads on the bottom of the legs do not stick. Slowly, but surely, they slide off the leg. I tried some felt ones but they were worse on my linoleum floor. A better adhesive for the original pads would probably be best fix for this. 2. The dowels that are screwed into the legs loosen up with use. I have had my barstool for only a few months when I notice it started rocking. After tightening ALL of the screws (some a full turn) the stools firmness returned. However now I am reluctant to permanently put in the pegs that cover the drilled holes for the screws. It does hurt the appearance of the stool without those pegs. Once the pegs are glued in there cannot be any further tightening...hummm, not good. So 3. How to make the pegs easy to remove and reinstall. Probably need to drill a small hole thru the head of Make the peg so that some kind of wheel-puller like gadget could get in the head. For this fix I would like more 'head' for the peg so that it is not easily broken.
It may be the loosening was do to fatigue of the wood itself. I don't believe this is the case because the screws are very long and have a good 'bite' and the wood seems to be a good strong hardwood. But if that is the case than the stool should have been glued with wood glue when it was assembled the first time. Which is what I am going to do now.
Screws are backing out? Leg floor pads slide off
Concerns 1. The plastic pads on the bottom of the legs do not stick. Slowly, but surely, they slide off the leg. I tried some felt ones but they were worse on my linoleum floor. A better adhesive for the original pads would probably be best fix for this. 2. The dowels that are screwed into the legs loosen up with use. I have had my barstool for only a few months when I notice it started rocking. After tightening ALL of the screws (some a full turn) the stools firmness returned. However now I am reluctant to permanently put in the pegs that cover the drilled holes for the screws. It does hurt the appearance of the stool without those pegs. Once the pegs are glued in there cannot be any further tightening...hummm, not good. So 3. How to make the pegs easy to remove and reinstall. Probably need to drill a small hole thru the head of Make the peg so that some kind of wheel-puller like gadget could get in the head. For this fix I would like more 'head' for the peg so that it is not easily broken. It may be the loosening was do to fatigue of the wood itself. I don't believe this is the case because the screws are very long and have a good 'bite' and the wood seems to be a good strong hardwood. But if that is the case than the stool should have been glued with wood glue when it was assembled the first time. Which is what I am going to do now.