Preparing your wheelchair for use
Fitting the seat frame | Location bar |
To fit the seat frame to a fully assembled powerbase, locate the rear seat lugs into the two outer grooves on the seat location bar (Fig. 4). Lower seat to position the seat stem into the receiving collar (Fig. 5).
Ensuring that seat is supported, |
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fold down finger lever and pull |
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outwards against the spring loaded |
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pin allowing the adjustable seat | Fig. 4 |
stem to locate in the receiving | |
collar at a required height. Release |
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the finger lever to lock the pin into |
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one of the holes provided in the |
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seat stem. Fold up the finger lever |
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to lock the position of the pin |
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(Fig. 6). |
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Seat lugs
Warning
The chair seat is not locked when the finger bar is in the lower position. If this occurs, check for alignment of the locking pin with the appropriate hole in seat stem. The seat stem is only locked when the finger bar is in the upper position as Fig. 6.
| Finger lever |
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Fig. 5 | position) |
Finger lever (locked position)
Fig. 6
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