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Stupid interior tricks, or lessons from rushing a job 120-130

Well #@[[!

I decided to tackle re-webbing my seats this afternoon, since I felt like a nice easy job. It's really not too bad a job. Just get the webbing from the auto upholstery shop, and 4 pop-rivets and washers per seat. Uh, make that 6 per....ah, eight.

First, double over the webbing where the wire clip goes, drill two holes through the webbing, and install the pop rivets and washers. Then drill the new rivets out, put the clip in and put two new rivets in. Weave the webbing through the other clips tensioning it as you go and carefully measure where the last clip should fit in. Drill your holes, and learning your lesson from before, put the clip in and pop rivet it. Weave everything back in place, then take it out again, drill out the rivets on one end, flip the clip over, and re-pop rivet.

Second seat. We've learned our lessons, right? Fold the webbing over, drill the holes, put the clip in, and pop rivet in place. Good job! Thread and tension through the other clips, measure, drill, check orientation of the clip, pop rivet in place, and TA DA! It's done...well that extra webbing on this one looks awful so before I put it in, I'll just scissor it offfff.....fu%#! I just cut the clip off of the webbing! Now it's too short! And I'm out of webbing, and the upholsery shop is across town.

Lessee...we can just splice the ends back together with two more pop rivets. Yeah, that looks OK, afer all, no one will be lifting the cushions to look, so let's try it out: Put the cushon in place, and have a seat. Feels MUCH better, even bouncin...ng SPROING! WTF? Lift the cushion up, and of course, the tension on the rivets at the splice is differrent and they pulled through.

Tomorrow, I'll go get more webbing and pop rivets.....








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    Thanks for posting! I chuckle first thing with morning coffee always helps :-)

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    I have used enough webbing to zigzag across back and forth so it only needs
    to be joined at the two ends. Stress may be lower there.
    I would NOT use pop rivets. Better to get someone familiar with webbing to
    sew it in a crossed rectangle.
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    George Downs, Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!








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      Stupid interior tricks, or lessons from rushing a job 120-130

      The original Pirelli webbing was secured with rivets....mayby not pop rivets, but nonetheless...

      I did have an idea last night (one of my 2:00 AM insperations) partly based on your response: I'll take the stuff to the upholster shop and have them sew what I tried to rivet together at the 'stupid' place.








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      I used pop rivets (with large washers) when I redid my seat webbing; that was over twenty years ago and they're still in there.

      Bill








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    Stupid interior tricks, or lessons from rushing a job 120-130

    I know exactly how you feel. It seems like most of my Amazon jobs go something like this. A combination of my inexperience and lack of time.

    Thanks for dropping the hints and so the rest of us may not make the same mistake. But we might find something else to mess up and re-do and re-do and re-do.








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      I'm sure Bugs Bunny would look at me and say "What a maroon!"








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        Stupid interior tricks, or lessons from rushing a job 120-130

        Bugs Bunny might call you a "maroon", but no one on this site will. I'm restoring my first 122 (130), and can't tell you how many times I've had to "do-over" things. This web site is a real gift to a newbee like me.

        I'm going with SWEM seat spring kit and letting my upholsterer install them (along w/new seat padding and custom fabrics).

        Good luck with your seat webbing. - phil r.







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