Don’t disassemble any gas cylinders, but I know the cylinders in office chairs are adjustable. On an office chair there may be a knob on top of the cylinder you can rotate one way or the other. Check if that’s something you can try before going for something more expensive?

I think those are where it started from but the BIFL sub degraded into a community built around obsessive buying of the “right” stuff.

I have a cheap nonstick pan. I use it like five times a year. I’m fine with that. Regular stainless pots and pans will last well over a decade unless you start dropping them on the floor twice a week, even if they’re not as fancy as the stuff that gets advertised as BIFL. It’s not that complicated

I first read about these as being under development in a kids’ science magazine in like 2008. I’ve been waiting to see this for a while now, amazing stuff.