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created: 2020-01-01 22:30:57 +0100
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language: en
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redirect_to: https://blog.mbirth.de/archives/2020/01/01/fix-ikea-markus-office-chair.html
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tags:
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- know-how
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- miscellaneous
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- ikea
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- markus
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- office
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- office chair
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- chair
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- clicking
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- knocking
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- noise
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- fix
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- repair
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title: Fix IKEA Markus office chair
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updated: 2020-01-01 22:30:57 +0100
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2020-01-14 16:30:57 +00:00
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After some years, my IKEA Markus chair developed some clicking/knocking noise whenever I swivel in
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it. This was very annoying for everbody in the same room.
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All posts and videos I found about problems with these chairs were talking about re-greasing the
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swiveling mechanism under the seat. However, there were a lot of people that also reported, that
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that didn't work for them.
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After digging some more, I finally found [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2YyqZ5K9n4).
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This demonstrates how to disassemble parts of the gas cylinder. In there, you'll find a few washers,
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a ball bearing and a rubber stopper. In my case, the washers had deep grooves in them and the
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shavings were clogging the ball bearing.
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I cleaned everything up, greased the ball bearing and assembled it with the washers upside down,
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so the sides without grooves are now pushing against the ball bearing. And that did it. I now
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have a quiet chair again.
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**nb:** At least in Germany, IKEA Markus chairs have a 10 year warranty. So you might as well just
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return it and get a new one.
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