{"id":1608,"date":"2013-12-24T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T20:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2014-12-07T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T14:01:11","slug":"aeron-wheel-disintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2013\/12\/24\/aeron-wheel-disintegration\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeron Wheel Disintegration"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before about troubles with the Aeron<\/a> that cradles my ass. Between then and now the back failed and once more it was fully covered by Herman-Miller<\/a>‘s incredible twelve-year warranty. Just like the seat pan incident, a guy was sent out to service the chair and cart away the residue, no charge.<\/p>\n

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The carpet casters were no match for the tile floor of the office. It took about a year for the grout edges to pound them into submission.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seat pans and backs are expensive. The most recent failure was not. This time it was the casters.<\/p>\n

When I bought this wonderful chair way back in May of 2005 my floor was carpet and so I specified carpet casters. I knew well the damage that an office chair does to carpet – don’t ask. By mid-year 2007 the carpet was gone,\u00c2\u00a0replaced with maple plank. The carpet casters were fine for that but to reduce floor wear I added a non-spiked vinyl chair mat. Then,\u00c2\u00a0in December 2012, the chair got\u00c2\u00a0a new home on a ceramic tile floor. I didn’t give it any thought at the time but in retrospect not caring for the wheels was a grave error. By summer the casters had begun shedding their rolling surfaces! Being me, I started collecting the pieces.<\/p>\n

I considered pursuing the warranty thing again. Then I discovered that bona-fide Herman-Miller parts were only around $50. I guessed it would be kinda hard to find service here in rural Florida so I pulled the trigger. ChairPartsOnline.com<\/a> had brandy-new Herman-Miller hard floor casters in my hands lickety-split. Installation took seconds. They don’t seem to have seat pans or backs or pneumatics but WTF, I needed casters and they delivered.<\/p>\n

The warranty on this bad boy’s still good for nearly another three and a half years. Service options research is on my to-do list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before about troubles with the Aeron that cradles my ass. Between then and now the back failed and once more it was fully covered by Herman-Miller‘s incredible twelve-year warranty. Just like the seat pan incident, a guy was sent out to service the chair and cart away the residue, no charge. Seat pans … Continue reading Aeron Wheel Disintegration<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}