I'm Don Harmon, I'm with the Equipment Restoration Center at the NEAT Center in Oak Hill, In Hartford Connecticut I would like to show you how to clean a basic piece of mobility equipment, like this manual chair here. The place to start with the work area. Make sure that the work area is well lit, well ventilated and you have room enough to work around your tools and not putting the clean stuff with the dirty stuff. You always to keep them separate. The tools I'm using for this is just a basic set of wrenches, socket set. You want to make sure you know it's metric or standard. You don't need complicated tools. it's metric or standard. You don't need complicated tools. The third thing you want to do is find out what this is supposed to look like. You can get that from manufacturers' websites, owner's manuals. A lot of times people who own these, modify them. So modifications need to come off and it needs to go back to original condictions as much as possible. You also want to remove any stickers, any personilized information that might be on there. And you want to make that you leave on any manufacturers identification include the serial number so you can always look that up later and the specific parts you might need. When disassembling, anything that comes off, has to be cleaned. even the screw heads. So if a wire brush isn't good enough, use a wire wheel, a power tool. Everything has to be as clean as possible. and disinfected, germ free. If you notice, there is a lot of areas that are now exposed. that weren't exposed before. That's the whole idea, get all the germs and get all the surface area you possibly can. Basic manual tools are all you need to do the job, but power tools are nice also to make it faster. If any of these are damaged, stripped or corroded, they need to be replaced. At this point all the items I want to remove are off. And I can put it in our wheelchair washing machine, then we would disassemble the wheels after they're clean and disinfected in there Disassemble all the moving parts, re-lubricate, remove all objects that didn't get removed and start with the reassembling. When removing these front casters, keep in mind there are going to be bushings and washers coming out with them. So you don't want to loose those little parts. This is a good example why you should disassemble everything and clean it thoroughly, because even though this looks clean, this bushing is covered in hair so the other one is actually is worse. Once you clean all these little parts, then you can they can be reassembled. The bearings on either side of the caster can be checked to make sure that they move. And if they don't you just open them up and replace them. To put them back together again the easiest way is to go straight up and down. Put the washer on. String it up. Go through and now we have to put the other one in there. When tightening this make sure it still moves freely. I usually go too tight and then go back. The wheels, remember that they're threaded on both sides, so the nut comes and then the bolt has to be threaded out not just pulled out During reassembly this is what we we're gonna to do to make sure it rolls perfectly and not too tight. This comes off. We'll inspect the bearings When cleaning the wheels, be thorough and you can use a cotton tip applicator to get in the cracks and crevices. Now we can clean the frame with a household cleaner and wipe down every square centimeter and every square centimeter to make sure the entire is germ free. And you're inspecting the same as you clean. If you see any places that are cracked, are have been welded by someone, you'll see the difference between a professional and an amateur welder The amateur, to us, disqualifies it. The frame is cracked and it's not safe. After the frame is all clean you want to go on to upholstery and the arm rest pads. Any pieces of tape any lables with names on it. Wether you use an aftertone base or citris base cleaner make sure you get all of this off. of this off. Now that this all back together we'll adjust the brakes to make sure they work properly. They need to be snug, snap in place. And not too snug so that someone can't use themselves and not so loose that it moves when the brake is on. Look down on the whole thing, make sure it's complete take a look over the whole thing and make sure it's perfect. We have to footrest to this one, wether it's swing away or elevated footrest, that up to the customer. No that it's finished you want to keep this in a clean area. to prevent cross contamination with the dirty items. And the best way is to cover it with a plastic bag. This happens to be big enough, to cover the whole thing preventing cross contamination and keeping the dust off of it. Most importantly when you're done with any piece of equipment you have to ask yourself is it something you'd use yourself...If not, clean it again. If you have any questions feel free to contact me at the NEAT Center at Oak Hill.