Pushing Down The Toto Soft Close Seat

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• Mar 20, 2008

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My customer wanted to know if her guests pushing the Toto Soft Close Seat down would prematurely ruin it, and... should she put up a sign. Didn't see anything about it in the archives or on Google. Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

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Only potential danger I can see is that all that extra compression in the lifting mechanism might cause the seat to pop back up while someone is sitting on it .

 

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My gut feeling is that you'll wear out the friction mechanism quicker, but I don't know for sure.

 

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Don't do it!

Seriously nothing will happen. The friction mechanism will experience the same wear whether you push on it or not.LOL

 

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I've never heard of problems with people pushing down the seats.
I do it all the time, to show people how they work.

You can drop, or push.

 

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Thanks for the responses. My guess is that the design would accommodate the pushing or Toto would be eating a lot of returned seats. And what are you supposed to do when the seat is up and you gotta go NOW?!! Appreciate all the input.