{"id":27,"date":"2017-06-29T09:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/norcalmod\/2017\/06\/29\/repairing-a-herman-miller-dcm\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:31:49","slug":"repairing-a-herman-miller-dcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/norcalmod\/2017\/06\/29\/repairing-a-herman-miller-dcm\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing a Herman Miller DCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camila needed a repair on the shock mount of a Herman Miller DCM. She&#039;s a furniture stager and was working on a house that was on display in the next few days. Unfortunately, the movers were a bit rough and broke one of the chairs. The repair needed to be quick.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, I recommend new shock mounts. The old shock mounts often dry out and delaminate. Even when re-gluing, a dried-out mount is very likely to come delaminated again due to the brittle and dry substrate. And rehabilitating old materials is often more costly in the end than replacing. However, since time was of the essence, new parts were not possible. To make matters worse, this all of the mounts (on two chairs) had been repaired before and there was lots of bad glue residue that also needed to be removed. When we got the chairs into the workshop, the force of the mover&#039;s foible revealed itself with a bent frame that also needed to be straightened&#8230; All in a day&#039;s work in the workshop (well, a few hours \u2014 not a whole day): Two DCM&#039;s revitilized.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5165\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201bb09aa46c9970d image-full img-responsive\" src=\"\/norcalmod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201bb09aa46c9970d-800wi.jpg\" title=\"IMG_5165\" \/>Ouch, movers&#8230; that hurt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5160\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201b8d29165c9970c image-full img-responsive\" src=\"\/norcalmod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201b8d29165c9970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"IMG_5160\" \/>There&#039;s a lot of secret sauce and magic involved.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5179\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201b7c907169a970b image-full img-responsive\" src=\"\/norcalmod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201b7c907169a970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"IMG_5179\" \/>Let&#039;s get to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5161\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201b7c90716ba970b image-full img-responsive\" src=\"\/norcalmod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201b7c90716ba970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"IMG_5161\" \/>Old mount (top) \/\/ New mount (bottom)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5176\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201bb09aa478d970d image-full img-responsive\" src=\"\/norcalmod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201bb09aa478d970d-800wi.jpg\" title=\"IMG_5176\" \/>Old repair (top) \/\/ New repair (bottom)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camila needed a repair on the shock mount of a Herman Miller DCM. She&#039;s a furniture stager and was working on a house that was on display in the next few days. Unfortunately, the movers were a bit rough and broke one of the chairs. The repair needed to be quick. 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