It took months but it's finally here. The headrest wasn't added on but that's probably all right.
It's really beautiful and the most amazing thing is how smoothly it rolls across the carpet here. No dragging, very little effort required.
And my feet are no longer resting on metal but on plastic footrests--no more cold feet, no more having to quilt covers for the footrests. I've been through several types of covering. For the last several years I covered them with a "sleeve" made from a couple of layers of flannel sewn together and fastened with snaps.
I made them myself and of course I kept having to wash them and repair them. Now I can retire them.
I spend about 14 hours a day in this chair and so it's a major part of my life.
It has an aluminum frame, and somehow the aluminum isn't so cold to the touch as the steel was. My hands would get cold and achy from propelling the old chair.
Now the old chair is sitting folded up and ready to be given away to a charity.
It's served me well. It's survived three trips to Chicago in the cargo hold of a plane as well as a train trip from Tacoma to Portland and back, plus many many times when it had to get through mud and snow, or roll on gravel or up steep hills.
It never complained or gave way.