Noisy seat

[Travis Bubenik]

I have a pack seat that's creaking super loudly and driving me insane. Tried lubricating the areas below in red - tightened it all up - still terrible. It's like the wood base itself is creaking. Maybe something to do with living in a desert and it being old wood, I dunno.

Any tips before I give up and go all Texas Chainsaw Massacre on this thing?

[Quentin Hickey]

Loosen off the clamps and put a piece of vinyl or leather in between the clamps and legs. That should stop all noise.

[Ricky Davis]

Yeah hollow-Metal(or light aluminum) will always eventually squeak as it moves with OTHER metal or with other material; that's also another reason I carry a small bottle of 3&1 oil in my chair...ah...ha...
Ricky

[Dan Beller-McKenna]

My seat(s) have been getting pretty noisy over the past year. No doubt a lot of this is the result of them having to hold up my hefty girth. But at this point, they make the clicks and squeaks even if I just put pressure on the legs with the seat upside down; no weight involved.

But(!!!!)

Today I tried something that seems to have silenced them dead. I went back in time ten years and stopped gaining wei....

No, seriously. I wrapped every metal-on-metal point (all the spots Travis initially highlighted, plus the ends of the brackets that go into the holes in the legs) in some 3M duct tape. Dead silence. I tried plumber's tape first, which worked briefly, but immediately wore through; it's not really made for frequently-moving parts. We'll see how long this tape lasts, but for now, silence is golden.

[Bobby D. Jones]

Where the bow of each pair of legs contact the wood bottom, Will squeak, A shot of silicone spray where the wood and metal meet will help cut squeaking and other strange sounds.

[Danny Letz]

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[Danny Letz]

I have a old CushCase seat that was squeaking. I took it to a steel show where Tim Cushenberry was displaying and he wrapped some kind of thin felt like material around the legs where they pass thru the clamps. I think mine was squeaking on the wood rather than the metal clamp. Problem was solved, still quite.

[Erv Niehaus]

Give those areas a shot of WD40.