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(More customer reviews)This is a very, very versatile chair which takes care of multiple situations for 93 a year old mother who gets around only for short distances with a walker before she gets too shaky for safety.
It is much easier to get her into a restaurant and maneuver to a table with this then using a walker, when we use this as a "transport chair" In the transport (4 small wheel) configuration it is far less cumbersome to navigate between tables than guiding her with her walker because the overall foot print is far smaller.
Folded, this chair is extremely compact, light, and lifts easily into the back of our car. It sets up and collapses easily. (A competitive chair with lots of positive reviews is 4 1/2 pounds lighter than this one but doesn't offer the versatility of this.)
It is important to understand that "transport chairs" are moved either by an attendant, or otherwise can only be propelled by the users feet pushing on the floor with the foot rests out of the way. For a "wheeled chair" to be self propelled, this chair can have the large wheels easily attached or removed.
Besides having the benefit of maneuverability of a transport chair, this weighs barely over 21 pounds with the foot rests attached. I discovered that the quoted weights of transport chairs are invariably given "without" the foot rests included. This low weight makes it easy for my wife to lift it in and out of a car. For the more ambitious street outings or if the situation arises that self propelling is needed, it converts in less than 2 minutes with the addition of the large wheels, of course the weight then goes up to I think something close to 31 or 32 pounds. Even this total weight is less than the typical "lightweight" wheelchairs that are usually 36 pounds or more. The light weight is achieved due to an all aluminum meterials usage.A Safety Note! This chair has two sets of brakes for making it stationary. The ones for the small rear wheels when used as a transport came properly adjusted. The second set of brakes which are used to lock the large wheels were positioned so that they would contact the tires, but were not adjusted right so that they snapped into a locked position where they can not accidentally disengage. (engineering wise this lever should snap "over center") The device is properly engineered but simply wasn't adjusted when assembled at the factory, so it took me about 10 minutes to make the adjustment. I'm glad I did this before we took this out away from home, especially since it required an allen wrench which oddly wasn't in the included tool kit even though two other sizes were - strange considering an allen wrench costs the manufacturer about 18 cents!
I'm very pleased with the purchase and would buy it again, it is very sturdy in engineering and construction and is intelligently designed to fold down very compactly for car usage. The price with shipping was literally half of the cost of purchasing it from a local medical supply ($595 + tax).
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