Show us your shop stool

[gatewaysysop]

That Permatex stool is awesome.

 

[esben57]

Found this clearing out Uncle's shed, now in our garage. Appears to be, or is an unashamed copy of, an Arne Jacobsen dot stool from 1960's.
In a bit of a state but still serving a purpose.

 

[zmotorsports]

I thought I posted up pictures of my new Vyper stool that I purchased last year but I guess I didn't.

The new Vyper stool next to the 20+ year old Snap-on stool that it replaced.

 

[i7083]

 

[DonovanSpeed]

 

[david3921]

Looks to be a great price on this style of stool from Menards. I have thier store brand one and like it. DeWalt has this style also.

OEMTOOLS Pneumatic Swivel Stool

The 360-degree swiveling seat allows you to roll around with ease and work from multiple angles. Keep the tools you need at your fingertips with the tool storage underneath the chair. The industrial-strength wire-grid lower shelf allows you to store tools and accessories you need to complete...

www.menards.com

 

[Tynee]

Looks to be a great price on this style of stool from Menards. I have thier store brand one and like it. DeWalt has this style also.

OEMTOOLS Pneumatic Swivel Stool

The 360-degree swiveling seat allows you to roll around with ease and work from multiple angles. Keep the tools you need at your fingertips with the tool storage underneath the chair. The industrial-strength wire-grid lower shelf allows you to store tools and accessories you need to complete...

www.menards.com

Disappointed. I sat on one of these in DeWalt yellow, it would be WELL worth $40.

 

[16again]

Big guy for at the workbench. Little guy for working on things closer to the ground.

 

[Burn1]

Got an older rolling stool cleaned up & back in action.

 

[Opa]

I thought I posted up pictures of my new Vyper stool that I purchased last year but I guess I didn't.

The new Vyper stool next to the 20+ year old Snap-on stool that it replaced.

Mike, how are you liking this Vyper stool? I have been considering it, but wasn't sure that its wide footprint would interfere with comfortably use a tig pedal. also, do you think the backrest is worth the extra cost?

 

[Ton ton]

There’s my throne haha

Hopefully you didn't pay too much for it.

 

[GarageHobbyist]

Disappointed. I sat on one of these in DeWalt yellow, it would be WELL worth $40.

Mine broke this morning. I leaned over to get something out of my tool box and the whole thing tilted at the base. I'm well under the weight capacity too.

Now I'm back on the hunt for something that sits around the max height of this one, it was a great working height for a lot of what I do.

 

[pfbz]

Every rolling shop stool I've ever bought has been a crappy design, bad balance, poorly built. And the prices of the 'fancy' rollers make my jaw drop... I've been using this hand-me-down rolling office/secretary chair for years now, SO much better than most of the **** out there. Rolls easy, great balance, adjustable height, super durable.

I've also used it a bunch of times as a light-duty lift table, primarily for removing/installing exhaust systems on rear engined cars, particularly when working without a helper. The hydraulic lift cylinder and broad 'seat' platform is kind of perfect for the task.

Easily found in second hand stores as well, often slightly stained or with broken arms, which is fine since you don't really want the arms anyway and it will get plenty dirty!







If I needed to replace it today and didn't want to screw around with second hand stores, I'd probably give this $30 Amazon one a try!

https://www.amazon.com/Elevon-Armless-Ergonomic-Computer-Adjustable/dp/B0DMGZBN3M?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[GarageHobbyist]

Every rolling shop stool I've ever bought has been a crappy design, bad balance, poorly built. And the prices of the 'fancy' rollers make my jaw drop... I've been using this hand-me-down rolling office/secretary chair for years now, SO much better than most of the **** out there. Rolls easy, great balance, adjustable height, super durable.

I've also used it a bunch of times as a light-duty lift table, primarily for removing/installing exhaust systems on rear engined cars, particularly when working without a helper. The hydraulic lift cylinder and broad 'seat' platform is kind of perfect for the task.

Easily found in second hand stores as well, often slightly stained or with broken arms, which is fine since you don't really want the arms anyway and it will get plenty dirty!







If I needed to replace it today and didn't want to screw around with second hand stores, I'd probably give this $30 Amazon one a try!

https://www.amazon.com/Elevon-Armless-Ergonomic-Computer-Adjustable/dp/B0DMGZBN3M?tag=atomicindus08-20

I'll have to keep this in mind. You wouldn't happen to know the post hole diameter in the seat bottom, would you?

There is nothing wrong with my frame or post, the crappy metal on the seat bracket is what broke. For $30 I would be inclined to buy it for the seat and bracket to put on my post if it fits. I like sitting a little higher, so the base/post wouldn't work out as well for me.

I welded a piece of black pipe in to repair/reinforce it, but since the metal actually broke and not the weld, I'm not too optimistic it will last.

I was looking at drafting stools and similar, but I hate to spend a ton on something that my get cut or burned in the garage. I'm also too poor for a Vyper

 

[zmotorsports]

Funny this thread popped back up. I recently found a used Snap-on pad in excellent condition and replaced the Harley Davidson one in my shop, seeing as how I no longer have Harleys, I feel it may be false advertising.

These are the two that reside between my lift table and 2-post lift. These seem to get used by the wife and people when they stop by as they are in the middle of the shop.




This not swivel one is between my milling machine and surface plate. This is the one I keep within easy reach and is used at the workbench next to my toolbox when needed.


My Vyper stool is used pretty much solely at the fabrication/welding table.



Thanks for looking.

 

[Jgaz]

Nothing fancy for me but I spent a lot of hours sitting on this stool and I flagged a lot of hours as well.

Bought it in the late 70’s and wore out the first (plastic) set of casters.
Snap-on replaced them under warranty and I recovered the seat about 10 years ago.

 

[zmotorsports]

Nothing fancy for me but I spent a lot of hours sitting on this stool and I flagged a lot of hours as well.

Bought it in the late 70’s and wore out the first (plastic) set of casters.
Snap-on replaced them under warranty and I recovered the seat about 10 years ago.

Now that shows a lifetime of work and looks like it has a story or two to tell. In other words, it has history.

 

[kfainf]

Mine was originally a checker board patterned padded top stool from good ole Walmart. I had a convergence of coincidences happen at about the same time. First, the back seat frame broke on the drivers side GT style seat I had in an old 1988 Jeep Cherokee. I can't complain too much as I'd had the cheap bucket seats straight out of the JC Whitney catalog since 1988. Secondly, the cheap particle board support of the vinyl clad foam shop stool seat broke. So what do you do with one good passenger side GT bucket seat and a cheap shop stool frame? Why marry them of course and create the shop throne.

 

[driftpin]

I visit the thrift stores and HforH if I'm in the neighborhood. I found a seat I wanted at one, it was a Monroe-Matic shock/strut chair, which I suspected was a dealer display item for customers to use at the parts counter. Here are some.

I saw on-line these:





What is on the 'net for sale, they're pricey, and shipping is sometimes > the stool.

 

[IRQVET]

I fall into this category if I'm being honest, lol.

 

[SMOKEYBEAR]

I have 2, both made the same. I use one on each side of my boat, gives me access to everything without getting up in it. They double as painting booths outside and are randomly the perfect height to sit on if I stand it up on end at my work bench to use my laptop out in the shop. Sometimes I use them to sit and stand on working on my diesels. I have a Corvette bar stool tucked in the corner, I may have sat on it 2x, its the wrong height for EVERYTHING. I should put it out to the curb..

 

[zmotorsports]

Mine was originally a checker board patterned padded top stool from good ole Walmart. I had a convergence of two coincidences happen at about the same time. First, the back seat frame broke on the drivers side GT style seat I had in an old 1988 Jeep Cherokee. I can't complain too much as I'd had the cheap bucket seats straight out of the JC Whitney catalog since 1988. Secondly, the cheap particle board support of the vinyl clad foam shop stool seat broke. So what do you do with one good passenger side GT bucket seat and a cheap shop stool frame? Why marry them of course.

There's a name I haven't heard in a long time, JC Whitney. I used to love going through their catalogs when my dad would get them.

I visit the thrift stores and HforH if I'm in the neighborhood. I found a seat I wanted at one, it was a Monroe-Matic shock/strut chair, which I suspected was a dealer display item for customers to use at the parts counter. Here are some.

I saw on-line these:

We had several of ^^this exact one at one of the auto parts stores I worked at in High School. I thought they were cool then, but they're even more cool now.

 

[floyd]

I converted one of those Monroe shock stools a while back and modeled it after a more vintage shock. It's a trailer queen though.

 

[racer1735]

Here are mine.

 

[driftpin]

Here's one I got at an Antique Motorcycle Club of America show yesterday at the associated swap meet. I always manage to find something of interest to bring home. I got it from a local shop owner who closed his bike building business. He owned and ran a motorcycle dyno there. He said his biggest build was a Hyabusa which turned 800 RWHP. I'm hoping that some of the mechanics' horsepower knowledge is in the stool, and that it now flows into my bikes.



The best thing: no hair on the wheels' axles!



I tried using a strong solution of Pine Sol on it when I got home, but the years of dust and grease are well-embedded. I could soak the lower tray overnight to see about that method of dirt/grease removal as it's only 4 screws to remove it.

I decided to use carburetor cleaner on the plastic tray instead of soaking it, and it cleaned-up well-enough for my purposes. I didn't attempt to use it on the top level ****-seat as I suspect that it would remove the prestigious 'Snap-On' logo and model #.

I also gave a shot of WD-40 to the caster bearings and the wheel axles. They were working OK, but why-not shoot 'em the juice, Bruce?

It's a Snap-On model JC24 and the shop owner told me that he's almost done 'paying the truck' for it.

A bonus pic from the motorcycle show, of a 1939 Francis-Barnett, w/something not common in that time, lots of bodywork, to shield the rider from road grime, mud & etc. Deeply valanced fenders, and smooth enclosure of the bottom-end of the engine, the transmission and the chain final drive. The engine is a small displacement two-stroke single, a Villiers. To my thinking, the bike resembles in execution a Vincent Black Prince, which had similar enclosing bodywork, though it was a much-larger engine, with more bodywork coverage. These were first built 15 years after the Francis-Barnett.





A Vincent Black Prince, 1000cc V-twin, from 1954-'55, the last two years of Vincent production.

1955 Vincent Black Prince - Motorcycle Classics

The Vincent Black Prince's imposing profile and fairing makes for an intimidating appearance. See what made these dramatic bikes popular.

www.motorcycleclassics.com

A Vincent, 'unclothed.' Another bike at the show.

 

[Jim_No_Garage]

I picked up a vintage Modecraft American rolling stool at the curb this summer. I replaced the casters and it's in use in the basement. At some point I will recover it and it will live another 30 years. It's a perfect height for sitting at one of my lab tables.

Cheers

Jim