Swivel recliner problem

[mustang92]

Recently took a trip and when we moved our swivel rocker/recliner we found ball bearings laying in the floor. We were able to get them back in and the chair swiveled (not as smoothely as should). However, the ball bearings continue to fall out. Anyone know how to fix this?

[wild willy]

While in Montana our chairs pretty much did the same thing. The local land fill was $5 a pickup load so ditched them and got good quality leather recliners. I know this dosen't fix the chairs- just an alternative suggestion.

[DONnANNIE]

quote:mustang92 Posted - Dec 15 2008 : 11:30:13 AM
Recently took a trip and when we moved our swivel rocker/recliner we found ball bearings laying in the floor. We were able to get them back in and the chair swiveled (not as smoothely as should). However, the ball bearings continue to fall out. Anyone know how to fix this?

You can buy replacement swivels. Use the Search feature for Swivels.

[Exnavydiver]

We also gave away our recliners, they were very uncomfortable and terribly heavy. We replaced them with our Lazy Boy Recliners from the stick house. They are a lot lighter and easier to move around... Dave

[Wayne and Carolyn Mathews]

Hmmmm . . . I found 7 or 8 BB-sized metal things around one end of our sofa. Then, when I tried to pull out that drawer under the sofa, one end wouldn't move--the end that those BB things were near. I thought they were from the drawer mechanism, but maybe not.

Are we talking ball-bearing-sized things are BB-sized ones?

Carolyn

[hookman]

When we ordered our Montana we told them we didn't want the recliners and bought a pair of Flexsteel Euro Recliners. We can use the footstools as spare seats if needed.

[Exnavydiver]

Carolyn, those bearings are most likely from the drawer slide. My drawer used to come crashing out while we were on the road, it finally broke the slide in half and all those ball bearings ended up rolling around the floor under the couch. I made a huge door stop out of an 18 inch piece of 4x6 cut diagonally. We got the drawer fixed under warranty and it won't happen again. The stop is there whenever we move the rig... Dave

[wersqu]

We had that happen to our recliner in our stick house. The bottom plate screws came loose from the swivel plate. We just tightened them up to solve the problem. Our trailer is in storage away from home so I cannot tell if this problem is the same. It doesn't hurt to check as quite a lot of the screws come loose traveling from time to time.