Bob,

I love that chair, maybe skids on the bottom will help add some excitement on those icy mornings.
But you are showing our age with those calipers. I still occasionally race my slot cars and got ribbed by the younger guys for using dial calipers to check tire height. So I caved in and bought digital calipers.

I have used the wooden match before too. After someone buggered up the hole. A guy took all the metal off his stock then tried to swell up the nicks and dents. Of course this semi closed the spring hole. So he drilled it out, (meaning too large) that was the reason for the inserted wooden match stick.

Merry Christmas

Jim