Car Seat as Chair

>>1044285
car seats need to be anchored. as soon as you lean back it wall fall over backwards

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I attached a van captains chair to a moving cart. Been working great for years.

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>>1044288
>car seats need to be anchored.
Bolt it to a base with sufficient width to prevent this.

This would be cool with power seats and a heavy duty 12 V supply. Pic related would be even cooler.

that is exactly what im doing this weekend, i got a smaller one that needs to be reupholstered and repainted but ill do the base/frame this weekend

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>>1044285
Fuck yeah anon we do it all the time.

Any company that has a shop and machinery has 20 old catapillar seats cobled into a comfy chair.

My buddy took and bucket seat and welded it to one of those old ass recliners bases that rock back and forth and rotake 360 degrees. Its bee his computer chair for a decade.

Comfy as fuck.

Just make sure the bottom has mounting holes or u know how to weld.

I have 2 bucket seats out of a ford escort welded to a stand and take them camping.

100 times better than shitty fold up chairs and me and my fat ass friends dont have to worry about breaking it because it would hold a bull rhi o and was free anyway. Plus uf u dont fuck it up u can resell later.


Do it.

Post pics.


>pic related
>car bucket seat chair

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>>1044310
OMFG!!

ELECTRIC HEATED LEATHER SEATS IN MY MAN CAVE?


>MFW

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>>1044285
I cobbled one together out of an E36 BMW seat, some spare 2x6s, and Chinese castors.

I placed a 4s lipo battery in the rear map pocket to power the seating adjustment and heated seats.

I built the frame haphazardly in order to get the height right before redoing it properly - but I never got around to it.

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>>1044368
>ELECTRIC HEATED LEATHER SEATS IN MY MAN CAVE?

In addition to the BMW seat above, I have heated seats in my leather sofa as well.

You can buy the heated seat kits for $20/seat and a 12v power supply ($20 or from an old pc) ... then just make a small cut in the cushion near the rear frame. The heating elements have 2 sided adhesive tape which affix to the leather quite well. My cushions are sewn to the frame so I didn't have to worry about wires being ripped out - but added some strain relief anyhow. The power supply was mounted to the interior frame.

During this past Winter, I left the heating elements on nearly a week at a time. Haven't burn down the house yet.

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>>1044285
We had a thread here a couple of months ago about something like this, a guy wanted to build an armchair like the one in the picture, I suggested that if he could find an older car with the right type of leather seat then he could frame it in and put the metal around it.-

>>1044381
The bottom of that seat is defenitly retrimmed though.

The two biggest problems are;
The seat will fall over backwards.
Car seats have no armrest.

The solution to the armrest problem is difficult. Some cars had arnrest built into the seats and I see two potential solutions.

Lots of American vans come with "captain's chair" seats that have two armrests. But those might be difficult to find.
Some cars also come with a single armrest on the seats.

Or you can use armrests from an office chair.


As for the falling over thing, you should know that car seats don't like to be level with the floor.
Their center of gravity is where the bottom meats the back of the seat and that part needs to be the lowest to the ground. This means the front part will be at a higher angle.

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>>1044285
Ron Arad did this along time ago with a chair from a Land Rover, the result was pretty fresh at the time.

>>1044370
Do you live in your parents garage?

>>1045169
>The two biggest problems are;
>The seat will fall over backwards.
It doesn't show it in this picture but the metal covered frame sticks out far enough behind to make it pretty unlikely you'd ever tip it over backwards
>Car seats have no armrest.
The frame you build to raise the car seat off the ground is also the frame for the armrest so that is not a concern.

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>>1047329
like this?

My friend has a bmw e38(7er) seat, its powered too and shit, got it for like 30$, its comfy as fuck.

>>1048012
>e38
used to have the rest of it.. if its in any way 'authentic' - it''ll have an electronic bad turn, spin him round three times and eject him into orbit. Napa Leather etc. comfy af indeed tho.

Great chair