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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: scary_leary on May 23, 2008, 09:47 PM

Title: Â£10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: scary_leary on May 23, 2008, 09:47 PM: I sold my nos kashi 5gold suede seat, coz i wanted a crack at making my own.
So with the 5gold money banked i bought a rough Kashi MX seat for Â£2.
Bought a suede handbag off ecrotch for Â£2, carpet fitters glue Â£2.70 and Â£3 for the decals.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_0930Medium.jpg)
Stick a seatpost on and clamp in a vice.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_0931Medium.jpg)
Take your packaging foam, spray with glue..spray top of seat and press together.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_0937Medium.jpg)
Stretch over...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_0942Medium.jpg)
and trim
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_0944Medium.jpg)
Same process with the suede..
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_0946Medium.jpg)
Another view.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_0947Medium.jpg)
Underseat shot
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_1025Medium.jpg)
Suede trimmed
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_0969Medium.jpg)
Decals added to finish.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_0990Medium.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_1027Medium.jpg)
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: lazychubs on May 23, 2008, 10:12 PM: looks like a northern boy with small hands made that lol
looks ok but i have just drunk a lot os stella's :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: scary_leary on May 23, 2008, 10:32 PM: You know what they say chubs.. small hands smallll, err

anyway i'd give it a 7/10, it needs tweaking a little bit..
but the good thing with the glue is you can pull it back and then re-do it.

should be a solid 8/10 before it goes on :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: lazychubs on May 23, 2008, 10:36 PM: small hands smaller feet ??? lol
cool show when done then
ya got more time than me mate :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: Gary72 on May 23, 2008, 10:37 PM: Looks OK to me(had no beer :'() I have a pice of brown suede from a boot, was going to try same thing :) thanks for the tips, wasn't going to use foam.
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: hunterdubber on May 23, 2008, 10:59 PM: You'd have got more use with the handbag lovee :-*

what a waste ::)

Hey puffter pants are packing make up bag and coming Crewe this Sunday ? ???

I need to check your ride out sometime very soon :)
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: scary_leary on May 23, 2008, 11:36 PM: Well before i cut it up, i matched it up to some cute shoes and worked pole lane..
didnt even get a nibble :(

no ive got orders this weekend.. she's meeting her mates at the caribbean carnival in preston
but i will do the rest of the meets..
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: Bob_Acid on May 24, 2008, 03:54 AM: Good job lee :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on May 24, 2008, 10:28 AM: well done lee, fancy doing another ;)
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: Paulo on May 24, 2008, 10:33 AM: Good effort. Keep us posted with the tweaks. I'm all for restoration rather than buying NOS off the shelf :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: kdw712 on May 24, 2008, 10:49 AM: nice work :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: jT Racing on May 24, 2008, 12:18 PM: looking good lee, getting that suede tight looks difficult. got more foam if you want it ;)
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: bof on May 24, 2008, 12:23 PM: Whens it going on ebay then Lee :2gunsfiring_v1:
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: spectre on May 24, 2008, 05:40 PM: I'm about to do this with a kashi aero - do you really need the foam though? looks to me like it loses too much of its shape when applied. I was going to filler the two holes quick and apply the suede direct.

Also - how permanent is that adhesive? sticky enough?
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: scary_leary on May 24, 2008, 05:59 PM: Yeah it needs the foam as the originals use it.
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: lazychubs on May 24, 2008, 06:31 PM: mm sober now but still not sure looks a ta wrinkly lol
can you not steam it like on american hot rod do lol
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: Gary72 on May 25, 2008, 08:29 PM: Get my wife to wash it, that will shrink the wrinkles out ;D
Title: Re: Â£10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: scary_leary on June 03, 2008, 06:53 PM: Ok done a few tweaks.. the rear and the nose.
much better :daumenhoch:
Got some fake suede coming.. so gonna do another.. best one goes on other up for grabs.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_1119Medium.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/IMG_1121Medium.jpg)
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: lazychubs on June 03, 2008, 06:58 PM: looks alot better there lee
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: shivadread on June 05, 2008, 01:04 PM: That's looking real good, i'll take one off you if you do another
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: jT Racing on June 05, 2008, 05:34 PM: it's got more hair than you ;D
Title: Re: £10 Home Made.. DB Turbo Suede Seat
Post by: CD17 on June 05, 2008, 10:45 PM: Aditup used to do these to Kashi Aero's he used the same foam stuff & used to get some Suede from somewhere quite cheap ??? He done one for me :)

Looks very good :daumenhoch: