Gadgetory

excellent what's up guys and welcome to Paul's hardware I am doing a video I'm out of my dining room I'm surrounded on all sides by all the trappings of my continuing project to organize all the stuff that I have that's going to be material for an additional upcoming video I'm going to be doing some inventory out here so stay tuned for that don't forget to subscribe and all that good stuff but today I'm actually doing a product video something I haven't done in a couple weeks so kind of trying to get back to my usual stuff but definitely not a product of the types that I've ever done a video on before it's a chair it's in this big box right here it's from vertigo it's the SL 4000 and when very gear hit me up and asked me if I wanted to take a look my immediate thought was to think about the chair I'm sitting in right now which is the chair I've been using for the past Oh 8 to 10 years it's in a bit of a sorry state so let's take a look at this chair first and some of the reasons why I might be interested in upgrading to maybe something a little bit better so my current chair came from office max I believe before they shut down they even exist anymore I think they might all shut down but I'm it cost me 100 or so dollars this was a little bit after it started working at Newegg and I wanted something that was just a little bit nicer than chairs I'd been using before this chair is pretty nice I mean it's it's leather right as you can see I've spent many hours playing video games and editing videos and whatnot in here so it's got like the traditional wearing a way of the the pads for the elbows this was one requirement though when I was shopping for the chair I wanted to have elbow pads for one thing you may notice this extra pillow right here I'm going to take that out for a moment so you can see it's gotten lots of wear down here on the bottom like nori when she was a puppy decided to take a liking to some of the little rubber or like plastic covers on these so she chewed some of those off so you know but it's got all the kind of basic functions you want it can go up and down it can lean back if you want it to the things that's missing for me are height adjustment for the elbow elbow wrists but that is why I have this affectionately known as my ass pillow that is my ass pillow and it's there so that when I sit in the chair I'm raised up because what I noticed when I first got it my elbows would sit up too high my shoulders would hunched up and I end up getting some like neck pain especially after like this was back when I was playing World of Warcraft for hours and hours on end so got the ass pillow it was kind of an in-between and you know I didn't like doing that because I had paid full price for the chair and everything but it was too late to return by the time I discovered that problem so I've been living with it but enough about my existing chair I'm going to go ahead and build this verdaguer chair it comes all flat pack so you got to do some assembly at home I don't even know what color this one actually is it's available in five different colors I believe sort of a darker red green white black and blue and I have no idea which one this is kind of hoping it's black but I'll deal with whatever so the SL 4000 comes very well packed it has nice dense closed cell foam and I getting out of the box wasn't too difficult comes with everything you need to assemble all together including a set of Allen wrenches and if the screws that you need aren't in little baggy they're actually pre-installed you just undo them in order to attach whatever part you need to attach with them and screw it back in as far as materials this chair is actually made of steel as far as the frame goes as well as the five star base it's got some aluminum alloy wheels which have a nice soft Glide and they're also very durable without being too heavy it's also got PVC leather as far as the finish on the outside so it's got a very nice premium leather feel it is pretty breathable as well which is important if you don't want to get too hot while you're gaming it'll support a maximum load of up to 150 kilograms so should be fine for most folks and it also comes with a two-year warranty from verdaguer as far as assembly itself goes I didn't really have too much trouble getting it together well I had a little bit of trouble I'll be honest getting these side pieces on over here just since the chair is assembled and rotates as you try to push it and you have to kind of search in there with that screw to find the mounting hole for it that was a little bit of a pain but honestly I was able to get through it with only being one person having a second person to help I would definitely make that way way easier also as far as assembly goes this lower quarter piece here actually did not come pre-installed so the instructions didn't include that but this came separately all I had to do is remove a little Phillips head screwdriver there in order to pop that on but that was one thing that was omitted from the instruction manual just in case you're building this in the future not too difficult to figure out but wanted to point it out in anyway you also get a couple nice pillows that come along with the entire chair so you get a head pillow up at the top and you get a lumbar support pillow down at the bottom those are optional of course but they're they just snap on with some elastic straps and I like them actually I'm going to probably keep them on there they're very comfortable as far as a usability and functionality of the chair first off let's start off with armrests since that was a sticking point with my former chair these arm rests are like almost I don't want say infinitely flexible as far as how you can set them up but they are pretty flexible so basically have four points of adjustments you can slide the armrest itself forward or back you can also angle it out or angle it in towards you if that's your thing they've got a little bit of slide back and forth like inwards and outwards like towards you or away from you you could actually extend that more if you went underneath and loosen some of those bolts down they could actually slide that entire armrest support mechanism out a little bit although that would take a little bit more work doing you also have height adjustment as well so all of these are of course adjustable while you're sitting down via little little squeezy buttons that you squeeze and then do your adjustments not too difficult and again keeping your elbows supported is very nice I was a little bit concerned about the lack of padding on the armrests although that's not really true they are padded it's a little bit stiffer foam padding than I originally thought I thought it was plastic first but it does have a little bit of give a little bit of squish and I think it'll be pretty comfortable for most folks you do have capability so you can tilt the whole chair back by pulling out the little knob on the side and you can also adjust via the knob that's on the very bottom of the chair again a little bit more difficult to do but you just probably need to do that once depending on your weight you can adjust that so that when you're tilting back it's going to give a little bit more easily a little bit more difficult or have a little bit more resistance depending on your weight of course so that you can do that comfortably I'll control but via these knobs over here you can actually lay the entire back of the chair back 170 degrees so you can almost lay it flat so that makes it great for taking a nap I guess in between gaming sessions then finally of course there's a piston way down on the bottom and that will allow you to raise or lower the overall height of the chair it's best to keep it at a height that keeps your allows you to keep your feet flat on the ground without being lifted off and I will say this is a larger chair I am just shy of 6 feet tall maybe 510 or 511 and even in the lowest position my feet were pretty much sitting where they should be so this is going to be good if for a larger for a larger frame or an average frame I'd say but if you have a smaller frame you might need to either put something down on the floor for your feet to sit on or maybe consider getting a smaller model of chair so guys that's a birdie here SL 4000 you're probably gonna be seeing this one around I'm going to be sitting in it during our live show and forcing Kylie's some inferior chair making fun of him because of it let me have you think though this is my first video on like furniture I guess so hope you have enjoyed it I don't have a lot of racing chairs or anything so I'm not going to do like tell you how this compares to other ones but maybe I'll try some other ones out so I can give you guys more feedback on that but I will say based on some reviews and whatnot that I read online prior to accepting this chair because I wanted to make sure I was gonna you know be telling you guys about a high quality product this gets really well review really good reviews online and I can tell definitely based on the build quality and everything that you're you're getting a pretty decent bang for your buck with this anyway I'll post the link to this in the description don't forget to hit the like button on your way out if you enjoyed this video I'll be back very soon with more stuff like this stuff and that stuff I know that you never mind don't don't look at any of that stuff thanks for watching this video though guys and we'll see you next time