Recently, I had a local lifestyle friend wanting to sell off some of his excess things. So looking around, I found a set of leather/vinyl wrist and ankle cuffs. He also had this nifty set of slim shackles. Also wrist and ankles. So me being me, my tinker brain started winding and thought they would go well with my interrogation chair.
The main problem was how to get the shackles to connect to the wood frame of the chair. Then it hit me:
Magnets!
So I went online and found these 130 # pull ones and screwed them into the arms and legs of the chair:
Now the shackles didn't have the metal content I was thinking, so made a bit of an addition so it would work with the magnet and this is what I ended up with:
Currently, I am using a cotter pin (it really isn't a cotter pin, but that is what I call it) to keep the shackle locked. I may go get some small padlocks, but want try the pins first for safety. The shackle itself can be separated from the chair with a really hard pull. But looks rather intimidating, don't it?
I decided to see if I could do the same kind of idea with the leather cuffs I first put on. A couple of fender washers and, Voilà:
In the end, I got both wrist shackles and one leather cuff attached, but then ran out of fender washers. Guess I need another trip out to the hardware store. Here is the almost completed chair. It looks fun, doesn't it!
