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The original was posted on /r/lifehacks by /u/7fw on 2025-01-24 19:50:00+00:00.

I am a big person. Not the heaviest person on earth, but very tall along with the heavy part, and just feel office chairs suck. Those gas cylinders eventually just start losing pressure and soon I feel like I am sitting on the floor. My only recourse, or so I thought, was to get a new chair.

Well, no it is not! I found that most office chairs use a standard size in diameter for their gas cylinders and you can get them for pretty cheap online! I found one that holds “up to 1000 lbs” for $14! Conceivably I could prop the rear end of my car up on this chair and it wouldn’t lose pressure, so it should hold my giant frame 3x over! Even if it doesn’t, I know I can replace it pretty simply.

Anyway, the two lifehacks here are 1)You can replace the gas cylinder on office chairs cheaply so don’t buy a new one and 2) do some research before jumping to conclusions on needing to replace an existing object. You may find repairing it is super cheap. And in this day and age, saving money on anything is good.