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Thought it was time to start building again..........

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dannyb:
That looks really good 👍Do you have a link to a how to..? 
 I need to do the same for a HLT turbo seat.

bobafett:

--- Quote from: dannyb on April 03, 2020, 09:06 PM ---That looks really good 👍Do you have a link to a how to..? 
 I need to do the same for a HLT turbo seat.

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Not got a guide no but it's pretty straight forward really - just need the right materials and a bit of patience.

The MOST important thing by far is the covering material - took me a long time to find the right stuff and I bought mine about 10 years ago so sorry I can't help with that. The thing is a lot of the suede or suede effect materials you can get often have a "backing" on them and this makes them too difficult to stretch, gather and fold around the edges smoothly. You need a thin flexible material (not too thin of course) with a slight stretch to it without a backing.

First part o f the process - give the seat a good clean and dry and then mount the seat on a shitty old set of guts and shitty seat post and clamp it to something whilst you work on it - keep the guts as far back on the seat as you can to give more "tucking room" around the rails.

Give the seat a rub down with a fine-ish grade of sand paper and dry wipe clean.

Cut a rough over-size of the material and drape over to size check then remove.

Glue wise you can use the spray carpet glue for the top - gets a bit messy so best use it outside - or use something you can apply with a brush - go easy though, you only want a thin application because you dont want it seeping through the material and you also don't want it to dry with bumps under the material.

Place on the material and smooth it down - try to stretch it a little as you smooth down the sides, nose and tail.

Trim the material so there's sufficient overlap to wrap round and tuck under - you can do additional fine trimming later.

Now for the underneath glue I used the gorilla super glue with brush applicator - this alows you to get a nice line of glue all around the edge underneath, in between the rails and inner side etc.

Tuck and wrap all round. The nose is the worst - get the first bit stuck down and when semi dry and holding nicely and then apply a bit more glue to the material thats already stuck down and then fold and stick the remaining onto that.

Additional trimming with scissors underneath if required.

Polish your original guts and stick them back on.

Sit back, light your pipe and admire your handy work  :daumenhoch:

Hootski70:
 Aye up me old mukka and gday from down under John . Great to see you getting back to building mate . I flogged off my small 😆stockpile 5.5 years ago before moving to oz . I now live in Cairns Queensland and it’s very quiet re old school but I did sneak my 1980 team goose with the decoaster forks into my suitcase when we popped back last time 😀
My nine year old loves it , I have collected a couple of things since been here but not really building anything .
Keep up the good work mate .
Simon .

bobafett:

--- Quote from: Hootski70 on April 05, 2020, 01:43 AM --- Aye up me old mukka and gday from down under John . Great to see you getting back to building mate . I flogged off my small 😆stockpile 5.5 years ago before moving to oz . I now live in Cairns Queensland and it’s very quiet re old school but I did sneak my 1980 team goose with the decoaster forks into my suitcase when we popped back last time 😀
My nine year old loves it , I have collected a couple of things since been here but not really building anything .
Keep up the good work mate .
Simon .

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Holy shit Si  :shocked:

Long time no speak mate !  :LolLolLolLol:

Glad you're doing well and there's at least one goose in the flock over there that the young'n can enjoy mate  8)

Here's a couple of MK09 snaps from the archive vault for old time's sake......

You still got the Val Doonican sweater ?  :2funny:








Good times  ;)

NORTY40:
Nice resto on the seat John , good 'how to' guide too  :daumenhoch:  Done a few of these myself in the past with great results , turns a tired old seat into something decent .

MK09 ….. Jeez some memories there but I can't believe you got beat by Si wearing a Val Doonican sweater on the track  :D :LolLolLolLol: 

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