04/02/2026
Proper fun & games yesterday - and it all started so well!
The weather and traffic played ball to allow the chair to be collected on time and it was on the bench at Unique Mobility ready for what should’ve be a relatively straightforward interfacing of a size 4 R82 Xpanda onto a Quantum Edge 3 Stretto base. Even some parts we hadn’t expected to arrive on time had been delivered early - virtually unheard of!
After a very productive hour or so of disassembling, the new parts came out of the box and everything unraveled 😬
In theory the new parts were correct for what we were hoping to achieve - or they might have been if the design hadn’t apparently been changed since our chair was manufactured!
Then we discovered two critical brackets were missing too 🤬
Left with the option of putting everything back as it was and delivering the chair back to the client unchanged or coming up with an on-the-hoof plan B, we (probably unwisely) chose the latter.
Reconfiguring the whole seat base, push handle orientation, reversing and swapping brackets left to right to gain seat width, tweaking mounting brackets to gain seat depth and some frantic hunting for materials and tools by Mark to fabricate a temporary solution for the missing footplate brackets we finally solved the original problem and had everything interfaced correctly.
5 hours non stop (and apologies to anyone within earshot that may have caught the odd choice word) and Mark’s uneaten lunch still sitting on the side as the chair was loaded up to deliver back.
I think we were both very relieved to hear the client and family were very pleased with the result 🎉.
Thanks again Mark 👍
Not the best “before”photo and I completely forgot to take the “after” but at that point it wasn’t high on the agenda 😂
