General Description: Glide installation and removal tool
Application: For installing or removing chair glides
Material: Black steel shaft and tip, black rubber handle
Overall length: 11-3/4"
Plate with 'V' cutout
Height: 4-3/4"
Width: 2-5/16"
Thickness: 7/32"
Hole / cutout size - triangular
Width: 5/16" at bottom, 1-1/2" at top
Height: 2"
Handle
Steel shaft
Length, with handle: 9-3/16"
Thickness: 3/32"
Dia: 1-1/32"
Rubber handle
Length: 4-15/16"
Thickness: 1/8"
Dia: 1-1/4"
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This is the 2nd school I've bought this product for
by grizz from Logan high school on September 07, 2011
Great tool. I just wish the 150 new glides I ordered also were delivered with it so I could actually use this tool. Still waiting for those...
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Quality Tool – Will last for years if used properly
by bmccue from Kalamazoo, MI on July 06, 2011
I acquired 20 chairs from a school auction. Each chair was missing at least one foot. I ordered enough feet (glide bases) to replace all the feet of all the chairs and 8 extra feet for possible future maintenance. I also ordered this tool, the SHIFFER GLIDE TOOL.
After replacing 80 feet with this tool, I got pretty good at using it. This tool is a must have for installing a new foot on a chair. However, it is not the best in all situations for removing a worn or damaged foot from a chair. If the ferrule (the sleeve of the foot that holds the foot on the chair leg) is thick, like a replacement foot, then this tool works fine for removing an old chair foot. However if the ferrule of a chair foot is very thin, this tool will be very ineffective. A few of my chairs still had the original oem feet. These feet had very thin ferrules. To get these off, I used a very large flat bladed screw driver and a hammer. This tool is a must have. This tool allowed me to install the new feet without damaging them and to fully seat the new feet on the chair legs.
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