GRIT Freedom Chair Installation instructions

GRIT Freedom Chair
Repacking Instruction Guide

1) Disassemble your Freedom Chair. If you installed any accessories, please
remove them from your chair.
2) Use an Allen key to loosen the headset (the pieces that secure the front
fork to the boom of the chair). Remove the headset bolt. Slide the fork out
of the boom of the chair. Place the headset pieces in a small bag and set the
bag and the front wheel/fork aside for now.

3) Place the cardboard bottom pad into the large box. Place this piece on the
end of the box farthest from the hand-holes.
Cardboard bottom pad
Hand-holes

4) Place the folding cardboard insert on top of the bottom pad.
5) Place your footplate in the box as shown above. Put the small footplate
clamp—the clamp that held the footplate onto the chair when it was fully
assembled—aside for now (you’ll reattach it in a later step).
Cardboard bottom
pad

6) Place the chair frame and seat on top of the folding cardboard insert. The
boom of the chair should point toward the end of the box with the hand-
holes. Then, push the footplate receiver tube through the hole in the folding
cardboard insert.
7) Reattach the circular footplate clamp to the footplate receiver tube. If
your footplate clamp tightens via lever, like the one shown above, tighten
the lever. If your footplate clamp is tightened via an Allen key, tighten the
clamp so that it is secure on the footplate receiver tube.

8) Fold and place the first triangular insert over the footplate, as shown
above. At the bottom of the folded insert, there are slots into which the
footplate can slide.
9) Fold and place the second triangular insert on the other side of the
Freedom Chair boom, as shown above.

10) Wrap your front wheel and fork in paper dunnage. Leave the fork and
front wheel connected. If you don’t have the original paper dunnage, feel
free to use your own.
11) Insert the stem/tube of the wrapped-up front fork into the second
triangular insert. There is a hole in the center of the cardboard into which
this stem/tube inserts.

12) Feed a zip-tie through the first triangular insert, under the boom,
through the second triangular insert, and back. This zip-tie helps prevent
the chair from moving around in the box. Add paper or foam dunnage in
front of the boom.

13) Insert the cardboard tube into the seatpan.
14) Place your cushion onto the seat, over the cardboard tube. Match the
Velcro on the cushion to the Velcro on the seatpan.

15) Secure the rear-wheel axles to the levers with rubber bands. Use two
rubber bands per axle to make sure they stay secure during return
shipping.
16) Slide your levers and axles into the plastic sleeves. Then, slide one
plastic sleeve into each side of the lever-holding cardboard insert.