1 22 Lt OEM top box back rest recover. Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:13 pm
MartinW
Life time member
After I finished recovering my seat decided to have a go at recovering the back rest on my spare top box. I had vinyl left over from the seat but as it was on special $17.00 compared to $34.00 I bought another metre which I didn't require but I have another seat on the way. It took three goes to work out how to do it. The first go I arranged the vinyl with the main stretch going across the rest and started at the top I ended up with too many wrinkles on the corners and had a problem around the lock. Second attempt I arranged the main stretch vertical and started at the top and had the same problem. third attempt went back to main stretch across and changed the starting point.
First off I glued the vinyl to the flat area above the lock. Once dry I did a slit in the middle of where the lock went then proceeded to heat and work the vinyl with my thumb to fit into the lock recess. This way allowed the vinyl to pull into the centre. Only once it was formed did I glue the vinyl down on the flat surface around the lock. Once dry I applied a bit of heat and continued to push it into the lock surround.
I then glued the vinyl to the flat upper part and then the top part. The remaining corners were just a matter of heating and pulling and gluing. Sometimes wrinkles developed which required peeling the vinyl back re-stretching heating and regluing. Once I was happy with it I trimmed the excess then as a precaution I stapled the edges. The clue to doing it was patience heating and molding, a few of the corners had to be redone until I was happy.
Regards Martin.
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1992 K75s