Constructing the Throttle Series Gaming Chair
The included user manual contains instructions in multiple languages detailing out how to construct the chair. The chair goes together in four steps per the instructions, and outlined below.
Step 1
Step 1 consists of constructing the chair's base. Parts used for the base construction include the chair's base, the five castors, the five plastic arrow-shaped pieces, the five faux nuts, the gas lift, and the gas lift cover.
The castors snap in place in the holes along the bottom outer edge of each arm of the base. The plastic arrows fit into the arrow-shaped holes in the top of the base arms with the faux nuts snapping into the holes along the outer center portion of the base. The gas lift fits thicker portion down into the center hole in the base with the gas lift cover fitting anuggly over the extending inner tube of the gas lift, as shown.
Step 2
In Step 2, you construct the physical seat, attaching the seat bottom to the chair back. Constructing the seat requires the seat bottom, the seat back, the hex head bolts, lock washers, and washers, and the allen wrench.
The seat back sits in between the two vertical support attachment bars integrated into the seat bottom. You attached the seat back to the support bars using two hex head screws per side, using a washer and locking washer in between the screw head and the support bracket as shown in the picture. The hex head bolts screw directly into threaded holes along the side bottom of the chair back.
Step 3
Step 3 involves attaching the seat base to the newly assembled seat requiring the assembled seat, the seat base, the plastic support covers, two of the Phillips head screws, and four of the plastic bolt hole covers.
The seat base attaches to the bottom frame of the seat using the four threaded posts in the steel beams along the underside of the assembled seat. Simply remove the nuts, position the seat base so that the adjustment knob and hinge are towards the seat front, and then tighten down the base in place through the threaded posts. You will need a wrench to tighten the nuts down. The plastic support covers slide down over the support attachment bars along the lower sides of the chair. You slide them down so they sit flush with the rounded hinge covers in the seat bottom. The hole in the cover should match up with a threaded hole in the support bar. Simply fix it in place with one of the Phillips headed screws. Once the covers are secured, insert the bolt hole covers into the two holes as shown in the picture.
Step 4
The final step, step 4, consists of fixing the seat assembly to the chair's base. The parts involved (and the only ones left) are the seat assembly and the base assembly.
To complete construction of the chair, you fit the top of the gas lift in the assembled base into the matching hole in the seat base. From the pictures, you can see how the gas lift joins the two parts as well as the difference in height between bottomed-out and fully extended.
The Throttle Series Gaming Chair Complete
To fully complete the chair, you fix the neck pillow in the place around the top of the chair back and the larger support pillow at its base.
Alluded to previously, the chair back is capable of laying down 180 degrees so that you can fully lie down in the prone position on the chair.
The seats arm rest can be configured in four different directions, including rotation along the horizontal plane, height adjustment, front to back, and side to side shifting. The silver button along the outside of the armrest controls the height control lock with the arms in their fully extended and fully retracted positions shown in the pictures.
Glad you’ve had a good
Glad you’ve had a good experience so far, can’t say the same for me. I bought one of these when they were on massdrop a few months ago and after only about a month of use it started to tilt backwards without using the seat tilt adjust level, and now it’s stuck all the way tilted back. This shouldn’t be that big an issue, it does have a good warranty, but they want me to ship the whole chair back to get a replacement. Even breaking it down into individual parts UPS wants to charge me close to $70 to package it to send back, and other people on the massdrop thread from the drop have said that if it’s returned damaged Clutch hasn’t been so great about honoring the warranty so I’m not so confident in packing it myself. I liked the chair but it was already expensive enough without adding another $70+ to get it fixed.
You probably tested out their
You probably tested out their initial supply. They’ve improved much since. I tested both of them out at the the showroom in BC. I would give them a try again, they are killing it now.
at $469, it’s not a good
at $469, it’s not a good deal. If you are going to spend that much
on a chair, then better to go with Maxnomic chairs that have adjustable lumbar support built into the backrest as opposed to pillows, those chairs start out around $400.
http://www.needforseatusa.com/computer_chair_office_comfort
A fat people chair?
A fat people chair?
not necessarily. I actually
not necessarily. I actually found these at Fry's before purchasing online. Fry's had quite a few manufacturer's chairs and most of them felt confining to me when sitting in them. This one didn't and is actually quite comfortable.
But the rule for these is to physically try one before buying…
I’d love to see a follow up
I’d love to see a follow up on this review in the future regarding how the castors hold up. I find that on many chair reviews, that’s what gives out the most.
Not a fat people chair,
Not a fat people chair, though they do have those. I have the Crank edition, which is smaller and cheaper. It’s been the only chair I can sit in comfortably for work and play hours on end. Saved my back. I love that PCPer got a review up on this. Really a fantastic chair.