Next up is the seat bases. I have been lucky enough to find a trimmer to look at them on Saturday with a view to doing them before Christmas. I was going to have a go myself but have decided that I'm just not up to it and I'm so happy with how its now going together I couldn't live with myself if it was let down by shoddy upholstery.
So Martin at Shropshire Stainless bent me up some 5mm Ali seat base blanks.
So started with this:
Which became this:
Which turned into this:
Which then morphed into this:
Couple of spacers to set the height of the seat in the base:
A goodly application of PU Adhesive (yep that stuff again!)
And the seat is gently pushed into position, its a tight fit but with enough spring that the adhesive get spread around. Also then piped some in around the joint of the curve in the plate to the seat
Once its set overnight I will drill and rivet using approx. 10 good long rivets per side from the inside of the seat outwards. This combination will be plenty strong enough, I have seen race seats held in cars with 4 bolts straight through the fibreglass into the floor! this beats that hands down and then some :-)
TTFN
Mac