1 Seat recover. Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:29 am
MartinW
Life time member
I had an old seat with stuffed foam and I decided to have a go at renewing the foam and recovering it. Trying to buy decent foam proved to be a little bit of a mission. Clarke rubber has three grades of foam none suitable for my seat. After asking around I found Dyman foam and they have 24 grades. I had tried them a quite few years but the person who served me at the time wasn't very helpful so I gave up.
I decided to try them again and found a very helpful sales assistant. Selecting foam seems to be a bit of a black art, and I had gone in with a couple of foam grade numbers I gleaned from their site. Both of which were way too soft and the assistant suggested a starting point of the light green foam $14.00 for a piece large enough to cover the riders seat. It can take a couple of days for them to cut it out and phone you. I shaped it and covered with a piece of covering foam and an old piece of vinyl it was pretty close but bottomed out on bumps.
I went back and explained my findings and she suggested going up two grades to 35-230 orange foam $14.00. This proved to be spot on for me. So I shaped with an electric carving knife then an angle grinder with a flap wheel and finally a small cheese grater and sanding disc by hand. So MIck and Paul turned up today to cover it, after viewing a YouTube video on how to do it we started. After a bit if fiddling and pulling and stretching Mick managed to sort it out. Initially it was clamped and then stapled before using the OEM plastic strips and riveting it. I am extremely happy with the way it turned out and would like to thank Mick and Paul for their assistance. At some stages it took all three of us to get the vinyl to cooperate.
Regards Martin.
Regards Martin.
I decided to try them again and found a very helpful sales assistant. Selecting foam seems to be a bit of a black art, and I had gone in with a couple of foam grade numbers I gleaned from their site. Both of which were way too soft and the assistant suggested a starting point of the light green foam $14.00 for a piece large enough to cover the riders seat. It can take a couple of days for them to cut it out and phone you. I shaped it and covered with a piece of covering foam and an old piece of vinyl it was pretty close but bottomed out on bumps.
I went back and explained my findings and she suggested going up two grades to 35-230 orange foam $14.00. This proved to be spot on for me. So I shaped with an electric carving knife then an angle grinder with a flap wheel and finally a small cheese grater and sanding disc by hand. So MIck and Paul turned up today to cover it, after viewing a YouTube video on how to do it we started. After a bit if fiddling and pulling and stretching Mick managed to sort it out. Initially it was clamped and then stapled before using the OEM plastic strips and riveting it. I am extremely happy with the way it turned out and would like to thank Mick and Paul for their assistance. At some stages it took all three of us to get the vinyl to cooperate.
Regards Martin.
Regards Martin.
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1992 K75s