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Mark's Inside Chair

    This chair goes where a regular chair can't. This modification raises the seat height to 21 1/2" which makes jobs like working in the kitchen easier; and transfer from a chair or sofa side arm for double amputees who have to move to the side. If you can use your hands and arms to move around, transfer to a bathroom commode may be easier than you might expect, even if your commode sits between your tub and your sink vanity. And, for general side-transfers, you have the entire side of the seat in the clear.

    Here you see the Inside Chair with the Handi-tray installed. Using the tray support shown allows swinging the tray out of the way when needed. A Tupperware bread container is mounted on a metal strap placed between two of the back mounting screws with nylon cable ties; and is great for things you need to keep with you.

    1. Find a pair of 24" wheels from a child sized chair, remove their outside hand rails, and install them.

    2. Find a pair of 4 to 4 1/2" wheels that can replace the front wheels using washers to space them in the front wheel brackets if necessary. (The ones you see have bearings and cost me $18 at the local hardware store.) This modification will lower the chair seat height, but only temporarily.

    3. Remove the seat pad. The sides of the pad have an imbedded metal supporting strip. Fold the sides over and punch new holes so the screws can go through both thicknesses when the pad is remounted. Fold the chair just enough so that it stands with the seat mounting bars 15" wide. Cut strips of metal strap (with holes as shown) just long enough for seat pad supports, and remount the seat pad with the straps as shown. I recommend using a double thickness (2 pieces) of the seat support strap in the front position because this strap takes more strain when you lean forward to pet the puppy or kitty. (The support strips are not uncomfortable.)

    4. Do the same with the back pad, using only one metal strap (You can't see the back support strap in the photo because the bread container is mounted to it.). Holes in the bread containers (or most other containers) for mounting with cable ties are best made with a round hole punch.

    If the chair has those plastic pieces that hold the seat bars to the upright back supports by sliding up and down when the chair is folded, you can secure the seat mounting bars to the back pad supports with short pieces of metal strapping and screws.

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This chair goes where a regular chair can't. This modification raises the seat height to 21 1/2" which makes jobs like working in the kitchen easier; and transfer from a chair or sofa side arm for double amputees who have to move to the side. If you can use your hands and arms to move around, transfer to a bathroom commode may be easier than you might expect, even if your commode sits between your tub and your sink vanity. And, for general side-transfers, you have the entire side of the seat in the clear. Here you see the Inside Chair with the Handi-tray installed. Using the tray support shown allows swinging the tray out of the way when needed. A Tupperware bread container is mounted on a metal strap placed between two of the back mounting screws with nylon cable ties; and is great for things you need to keep with you.

1. Find a pair of 24" wheels from a child sized chair, remove their outside hand rails, and install them. 2. Find a pair of 4 to 4 1/2" wheels that can replace the front wheels using washers to space them in the front wheel brackets if necessary. (The ones you see have bearings and cost me $18 at the local hardware store.) This modification will lower the chair seat height, but only temporarily. 3. Remove the seat pad. The sides of the pad have an imbedded metal supporting strip. Fold the sides over and punch new holes so the screws can go through both thicknesses when the pad is remounted. Fold the chair just enough so that it stands with the seat mounting bars 15" wide. Cut strips of metal strap (with holes as shown) just long enough for seat pad supports, and remount the seat pad with the straps as shown. I recommend using a double thickness (2 pieces) of the seat support strap in the front position because this strap takes more strain when you lean forward to pet the puppy or kitty. (The support strips are not uncomfortable.) 4. Do the same with the back pad, using only one metal strap (You can't see the back support strap in the photo because the bread container is mounted to it.). Holes in the bread containers (or most other containers) for mounting with cable ties are best made with a round hole punch.
	If the chair has those plastic pieces that hold the seat bars to the upright back supports by sliding up and down when the chair is folded, you can secure the seat mounting bars to the back pad supports with short pieces of metal strapping and screws.

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