Leaking Barber Chair

Your barber chair relies on a sealed hydraulic piston to go up and down, if it is leaking, it won't maintain pressure, replace the seal.

Hydraulic, or pneumatic? I though that it was air, rather than some type of oil, that lifted the chair.

Nope. If it was pneumatic, it would be leaking air, not oil.

He said it leaked oil after he put oil into it. I bet my pneumatic desk chair would leak oil if I put oil in it.

If it's pneumatic, why in the hell would there be anything on there through which to add oil? Do you think he took the whole thing apart, realized it was completely dry inside, filled it up with oil and put it back together? Get down on your knees and tell me how would you go about adding oil to your pneumatic chair, dolt!

OK, once again - he said it leaked oil after he put oil in it; he didn't say it was leaking oil, so he added some, and it kept leaking. He probably put oil on the riser shaft thinking the oil might provide a seal for the pneumatic piston, but instead the oil just leaked back out.

"Get down on your knees and tell me how would you go about adding oil to your pneumatic chair, dolt!" -- Is this kind of language really necessary? Why are you so angry about this? Shees, go take chill pill.

I've taken a chill pill, hope you don't mind if it was in liquid form. Why do I feel that some type of trap is being laid, by some of the gurus on here? He said that he put oil in it, not on it. It really doesn't matter, regardless of what type of chair he has, it has a bad seal. If he replaces it, it will be fixed. By the way, I seriously doubt that you've got a pneumatic office chair. Can you pump it up to the desired height? Or could it possibly be that it has a spring in it, contained within a cylinder, and when you sit on it you are hearing the rush of air escaping from the bottom?

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