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My Herman Miller Aeron chair is now over 15 years old, so it's been at least that long since my last chair-related backache. Last year I replaced the arms, which had developed cracks in the padding over time, but otherwise it's held up very well until recently. Another problem popped up, however, as the tension screw to adjust the height of the left arm started slipping, causing the arm to gradually lower itself under any weight. The arm slides up and down in a channel, so I started looking for something that could be placed in there to prop it up, frustrated that the thin 6" steel dowel I found in my MacGyver kit seemed way too long to serve this purpose. After failing to dig up something smaller to try, I gave the too long dowel a shot, and it turns out the bottom of this channel is much deeper than I imagined, and holds this at the exact perfect height I wanted, with the possibility of it slipping completely eliminated. I love it when a plan comes together. No wait, that was a different 80s show.

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