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bobafett:
Anyone done any seat restoration - couldn't find a sticky  ???

I have a couple of seats with cracks in them - any sugestions what to use - some sort of coloured sealant / glue / filler - I think i'll try the dye method as described for the tuff wheels but its the fixing cracks and scuffs part i wanna know about.
Can you sand plastic to get the minor scuffs out ? What grade of paper ? :-\

Goose1:
There's a guy on Burnerworld...............Russ J , who does a cracking job at restoring Aeroyal and other seats, sands them down, they look ace. He won't sort cracks though!

MartyC:
Seats are usually made of nylon so can be very difficult to repair cracks.  Plastic bumper repair techniques may work but I've never seen anyone try it; worth a go as you've nothing to lose.  Sanding seats on the main body surface usually removes the textured finish, if your seat has a smooth finish then I'd go for it through the various grades up to 2000 grit, finish it off with a plastic polish like the one from Meguairs  :daumenhoch:.

bobafett:
Sounds good i'll give it a go - the first repair is a black kashimax aero it's not in too bad a state no cracks on that one but a bit of tail rub where the bikes been resting on it - like you say i think i'll go down the grades see what kind of finish i can achieve - i was gonna try "Back To Black" - you know that shit you put on your car tyres to see if that brought the colour out ?

As for the other project that could be a bit trickier - the crack is on the topside of the seat between two of the air vent holes - i was hoping to try and fill it with some kind of coloured sealant and then dye the whole seat (which is currently a bit faded) back to it's former glory.............

MartyC:

--- Quote from: bobafett on July 18, 2008, 03:27 PM ---Sounds good i'll give it a go - the first repair is a black kashimax aero it's not in too bad a state no cracks on that one but a bit of tail rub where the bikes been resting on it - like you say i think i'll go down the grades see what kind of finish i can achieve - i was gonna try "Back To Black" - you know that shit you put on your car tyres to see if that brought the colour out ?

As for the other project that could be a bit trickier - the crack is on the topside of the seat between two of the air vent holes - i was hoping to try and fill it with some kind of coloured sealant and then dye the whole seat (which is currently a bit faded) back to it's former glory.............

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The aero should come up quite well, Steve P posted a thread about a repair he's done on a Shot Gun II seat, so long as you are careful about how much you rub down it should come up a treat.  Also, use Dylon to restore the colour; there's a great thread by Waxintaxin in the restoration stickies that tells you how to do it but essentially it's a couple of the same colour dylon dyes, salt and simmering hot water plus  a few hours of simmering in the pot for the seat  :daumenhoch:

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