Tape to repair office chair arm

Yes, with the addition of a pair of black stiletto heels.

Maybe an auto upholstery shop would be an answer. There's a site here that might help:

Gear Aid Tenacious Tape for Fabric Repair may do the trick. Each package has 3" x 20".

UV resistant lineset tape. From your HVAC wholesale house.

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If the armrest comes off why use tape? get a nice chunk of jersey-backed vinyl of the right colour and re-wrap the armrest. Why do a half-assed repair when a real repair is every bit as easy and no more expensive than fooling around with what you KNOW won't do the job???

Beter yet, staple it from the back of the armrest.

There's a lot to be said for this. Especially if there is an unseen side of the armrest where the edges of the current covering come together.

They sell vinyl that looks something like leather at fabric stores. And lots of other fabrics. If you do both arms, it won't seem so bad if the match to the old stuff is not perfect. (Do they sell actual Naugahyde somewhere?)

Probbaby better than tape.

But as to tape, I'll tell you what I know. Gorilla tape is very sticky, and has a black back, but probably doesn't mold itself around corners.

And silicon tape, which is the size of electric tape but wrapped on a white plastic piece of tube (instead of a paper roll) is expensive (though I think I found a nameless cheap version at Home Depot once) and molds itself excellenty (and after a day or two merges into one piece) but it's surface won't be that pleasant. Not shiny or smooth, not sticky either

But probably don't take off the current covering. There might be a bunch of foam rubber underneath, about to crumble and fall off.

Gorilla Tape comes in black.

No, the Nauga was declared an endangered species by the World Wildlife Federation in 2003.

As such, they are now over populated, and eating the Styro out of its natural habitat. Price of Styrofoam is going to go up, soon. Africans have been poaching Nauga, to little effect.

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Black duct tape.

I took the arms off my chair and put clear silicone sealant into all the cracked areas and just glued the whole thing back together. It's mostly held up for about a year. The most leaned on one has cracked again and I'm going to have to redo it. I would have preferred to use a Urethane but couldn't find any at the time. In my experience Urethane is stickier and more durable then silicone plus now that I've used silicone it may be hard to get a new application of anything to stick to it. You can buy replacement arm pads from Amazon but you would need to verify that they would fit. I found some that would fit (right spacing for screw holes, etc, but they were smaller overall so I decided to try gluing mine instead.

That's a quality chair so why not buy new arm pads? A quick search found a pair for $40.00. Some used ones on eBay.

Yeah, I just threw a blanket over my office chair that was falling apart. It keeps my arms from itching and breaking out. The culprit is the stuffing inside that leaks out.