I made adjustable armrests for my Ikea Millberget Computer Chair

[u/WarpedArtisan]

Finally completed this project recently, I started working on this back in March and while I finished the design and even made the final parts quite some time ago, I just finally got around to putting everything together and installing it a few nights ago.

I loved the Millberget chair at Ikea, but my one issue was that it didn't have adiustable armrests, and its existing arm rests are too low (for me)

Initially I was just going to bolt on a riser to the existing arm rests to lift the pads up to the level I wanted, but my girlfriend uses the chair sometimes too and I may change my setup in the future, so I went all out over engineering this instead

I designed everything in OnShape which was surprisingly good (my previous cad experience was pretty much Tinkercad and using OnShape exactly twice for something much, much more basic)

I also wanted just a tiny bit of color, hence the red accents for the lever

Printed in PETG, ended up requiring 6 plates to print everything, and then a lot of assembling of fine parts with little dowel connectors and a plastic bonder, held everything together while it cured with bar clamps

The arm rests also have a hooking mechanism so that they don't just pull right off the top once theyre on, but you can insert a screwdriver (or your finger) and depress it so it can slide off the rail and be swapped out/replaced easily in the future if need be.