Quick fix

 

One of the most important parts of any power chair is the toggle switch on the drive mechanism which is that box off the arm of the chair that has a toggle switch on that you used to drive the chair frontwards backwards and up and down when you have a riser or an elevator seat. And of course you want to keep that particular piece of equipment guarded so nothing happens. Remember this is a backup chair that I'm in right now so everything's not going to be Prime but it still has to be functional. I noticed the last couple days that the drive box was getting a little Wiggly but I figured I didn't have to worry about that too much hopefully my other chair will get repaired sooner than later but today that came to worry was quite well founded. I've been focused on cooking a roast all day which means I'm in and out and around my cooking area. I have taken out one of the drawers under the shelving area by my refrigerator which allows me to get under the shelf so I can do meal prep food prep stuff like that. But when I do I must remember to gently go under this shelving and to be sure that the arm of the chair is loose so the arm can rise up as it goes under the Shelf. As I've reported in the past chair is a little squirrely in that you can want to stop but it keeps going a few inches many times which I think is just the control box getting old anyway today I went forward not too concerned and I hadn't I'm done the arm of the chair which caused the control box to snap off its mounting which means I have to very very carefully hold the control box in one hand and try to drive it with the other which is very challenging and I think to some degree very dangerous particularly if I were to be out in the world but even around the house or apartment this is a little weird. So of course I called my brother who did the brotherly thing after he had finished spending time with his daughter to come over to my place and see if we could repair this item. In the meantime, since I didn't want to put all my eggs in one basket, I called the boys over at Utah Center for assistive technology and spoke with Robert who works a lot on chairs. Thankfully when I told him the problem and sent over images of the broken control box he put my Fierce to rest indicate that they had a repair for the problem and he would be over in the afternoon tomorrow to make that repair. It only cost me 20 bucks which I figured is well worth it. In the meantime my brother came over and with some great zip ties was able to fix the control box back to its mount which will greatly assist me in surviving until then and he did such a good job, as he always does, that I could just leave it with that if that were the case. However fortunately I think Robert from Utah Center for assistive technology well fix my chair and maybe keep me going until my other chair is repaired… whatever that might be.