1-1/2" Wrought Iron Patio Furniture Feet Caps - Round Plastic Glide Floor Protector Replacements for Outdoor Metal Tables and Chairs - 16-Pack

I tried soaking in boiling water, the hammer method, as well as prying them in with a screwdriver, but there was way too much swearing and it was obvious the danged things weren’t going in. An hour later I discovered the secret... warm first, then set one end of the insert in place. Then hold the lower jaw of a channel lock on the metal outside of the part of the plastic you set in place. With the upper jaw squash the other end of the plastic. You’ll have to readjust your bite a couple of times until the plastic piece snugs into the hole. Then seat with a rubber mallet. Once I got the hang of it I was able to do about one piece per minute. And wine helps too.

If you measure these cups, you will find that they are 1 9/16 inches in diameter,, NOT 1 1/2" AS ADVERTISED! My leg feet openings were exactly 1 1/2" diameter and the cups were too big to fit. It seems like a mere 1/16" wouldn't make that much difference, but it does. When I tried to pound them in with a hammer, all I accomplished was tearing up the edge that I was trying to pound in.Since I needed them immediately, my solution was to cut a V shaped notch in the cup (with a knife at first, but switched to a tin snip). The "V' was about 3/16" at the edge side of the cup. That allowed it to "fold" into the opening.Also, there were several of the cups that had that excess plastic sticking off of the edges that you see on poorly finished products.I looked at the few old cups remaining in my chairs: their edges were 1 7/16" diameter and they flared out to 1 1/2" to fill the opening. They looked more like the picture that accompanies this product. NOTE: THIS PRODUCT DOESN'T EVEN LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE PICTURE THAT ACCOMPANIES IT!!!Don't buy this "Project Patio" unless you measure the opening on your chair leg. If the opening is 1 9/16", go ahead. If it is 1 1/2, they won't fit.

Quick delivery and relatively easy to install. After the first one or two of went pretty quickly. I microwaved a cup of water for two minutes, dropped them in 8 at a time and let them warm up for about two or three minutes. Easy and I didn't break or destroy any of them through replacing twenty of them. Getting the old caps out was the hardest part, but that got easier with practice as well.I had to replace black caps, but the white was about half the price. The caps are pretty much invisible once installed so color is irrelevant.They should have added two steps to the installation instructions:1. Take a Scotchbrite pad to the inside of the chair feet to remove the scale.2. Put a towel or a pad under where the arms and chair back rest on the ground to prevent rubbing or scraping off the paint on the concrete.My only complaint is that the bottoms of the cups are just as thin as the ones I replaced. It would be really nice if the bottoms were thicker so I would not have to do this again for a long time.All in all, I'm ticked with the product. No more rust rings on my concrete lanai floor!

I just did 6 chairs, a table, and a glider over the weekend with these. It definitely took some effort, until I got the technique down. Hopefully next time it will be simpler. Once I got the technique it took maybe 30 seconds per cap.I did not have to Dremel the caps or the chairs to make it work1) Boil water2) Insert cups into water and let them come up to temperature (about 30 seconds)3) Wear gloves so you don't burn your hands4) Insert one side of cap into chair - cap will be tipped when you do this5) Hold down the side you inserted6) Eyeball the fit. If it looks like you might be able to use a screwdriver to wedge the other side in, instead tap (light-ish) with a mallet to see if it will go7) If it does not go, use a screwdriver on one of the nubs on the side that's sticking out to push inward so that it gets into the recess in the chair leg8) Repeat 6-8 until the cap is in place.In the beginning I could only do 2-3 of these without having to reboil the water to soften the caps a bit. By the end I was able to do 8 between boils.

If I could have given these things zero stars for ease of installation I would have. I ended up having to trim or whittle the edges of every one of them. 8 chairs with four legs. That plastic is very hard! (which you’d think would make them last longer but not so much on pea gravel patio). I read the instructions included in package. I read the instructions online. Didn’t work. I even used a wire brush adapter on my husband’s battery powered screwdriver to clean all the rust out of the feet of the chair before attempting to insert the plastic slider. Still didn’t work. I tried a sander adapter on the same tool to slightly trim around the plastic on the slider and that didn’t work. Finally whittled away at the edges of the plastic and just hammered those suckers into the hole. I will not buy these things again.

Exact fit on our metal table and chair set and they work great as the chairs that were missing glides now slide nicely on our deck without damaging the surface, but for what you're getting (little plastic/nylon cups) the price is exorbitant.

These caps were an excellent fit, they transformed my old patio furniture into new gliding comfort. I would HIGHLY recommend these as a replacements.

les support sont beaucoup trop mince pour l'extérieur. La partie qui touche au sol /deck ou asphalte est très mince et ne dure que quelques jour avant de percé...