How To Remove Chair Casters In 6 Easy Steps

For those interested in learning how to remove chair casters from your swivel chair, you should check out this quick and easy step-by-step guide. We’ll also mention some tips on maintaining a clean caster without risking any damage from your chair. Also, stay in touch because this article provides you the most simplified steps that even a beginner can even follow.

 

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Materials Needed

Before proceeding to the steps below, make sure that you have the complete proper equipment for the activity. Once you’re all settled, you’re good to go!

 

Steps To Remove Chair Casters

 

Step #1. Turn the chair upside down

You’ll need to turn the furniture upside down, then place the chair’s head on the ground for the wheels to be in the air. This step will help you have access to the chair casters from the bottom.

Note: If you have a heavy chair, it’d be best to ask for help from someone.

 

Step #2. Remove a threaded caster turning it clockwise

If you have a type of caster threaded with a stem (this stem is a screw), it’ll release once it is twisted out enough. Next, you need to twist the chair caster in a clockwise direction to identify what kind of caster you have right now. When you move in the direction you expect, keep going until the material comes out.

 

Step #3. Uninstall a grip a stem by lubricating and pulling on it

When your grip stems (it will not unscrew), you need to spray out the lubricant to the spot where the caster will meet the chair. Then put out one hand on the caster than one hand on the legs of the chair. Once you are already in this step, you have to give it a pull.

Note: It’d be best to grip it with a dry towel or glove if it doesn’t budge. Some chairs have a swivel plate, which is very unusual. Use a screwdriver to remove the swivel plate.

 

Step #4. Use a screwdriver and pry bar if the caster won’t budge

There will be instances that some casters are rusted and hard to pull out with your bare hands. Look for a flat head screwdriver and a pry bar that has a nail pulling slot at its end.

Note: We suggest that you use a wide screwdriver. It can be as comprehensive as ½ inch, and the pry bar’s nail-pulling slot needs to be big enough to fit in the stem chair caster, which is usually around ½ inch.

 

Step #5. Push the screwdriver’s head where the caster meets the chair, turn it

Use the flathead screwdriver to push where it’s right between the caster and the chair. Then you’ll have to slowly turn the screwdriver until the chair’s caster starts to move upward, away from the chair.

Note: There’d be instances that some casters won/t be able to move. We suggest that you try to rotate the caster around. Trying different angles can give you leverage to pull the caster out from the chair.

 

Step #6. Position the pry bar’s nail pulling slot over the stem and pull it out

With your pry bar, position the nail-pulling slot from where it’s directly between the chair and the caster, right over its stem. Pull the caster, and by doing this part of the step, it should pop out.

Note: It’s also helpful to call somebody when you’re trying to get all the caster out of the chair from the other side.

 

Maintenance Of Chair Casters

 

Cleaning the inside

When you clean the interior of the chair caster, you need to use your finger to remove visible debris. However, if you have big hands, you’ll need to use proper tools to help you remove stuck objects from your caster.

The best tool that you can use for this way of removing debris is a tweezer, but if you don’t have any tweezers, then scissors, bottle cutters, screwdrivers, and nail clippers are suitable substitutes.

Another alternative you can use is to duct tape and remove all small pieces from the caster. Duct tapes are known to be sticky, and with their use, they can trap all the small pieces of dirt. If you have any vacuum, you can use this tool to capture all the pieces of dirt that didn’t stick in the duct tape.

 

Cleaning the outside

To clean the exterior part of the caster, use a scrub brush to remove the dirt. Then, soak it with soapy water for the dirt to fall quickly. (Soak wheels in water with soap.)

Allow the material to soak for about 10 minutes. While it is soaked in water, you can scrub them.

After everything, you need to dry the wheel thoroughly, and you’re good to re-attach the caster.

 

Conclusion

You’ve reached the last part of this article on how to remove chair casters. Use the proper tools to avoid damaging your furniture. Once you follow the procedure correctly, your chair will look as good as new!

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