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08-07-2020, 01:08 PM | #1 |
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Re: Bench Seats, Having them Reupholstered
The shipping's a killer for me, Tina. But I do appreciate the quality of your work. Going to try to recover it myself, and depending how that turns out, you might still be hearing from me.
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08-02-2020, 03:07 PM | #2 |
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Re: Bench Seats, Having them Reupholstered
the chrome came on my chevy custom vinyl Cheyenne 75 I am original owner maybe I got a gmc seat when it was made
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08-07-2020, 04:20 PM | #3 |
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Re: Bench Seats, Having them Reupholstered
I know it's not really related to your work but I'm wondering if you can provide some input? I was going to order a seat cover and sun visors from USA1 to match the tan seatbelts I got from SeatBeltStore.com but they want $238 dollars for shipping. What's my next best bet? Do you recommend the 38-2293-TN from LMC? Or should I look at a different supplier? It's for a mid-80's tilt seat.
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A long time ago, I started off using covers made by ACME. These are supplied to LMC, Classic Industries and a few other online vendors. I didn’t take very long to realize these covers are not well made, and they would either be too big, which would leave lots of wrinkles. Or too small, then they would rip.
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08-07-2020, 04:53 PM | #6 |
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There was someone else that I know, is running into that same issue. He lives in Canada and the shipping was crazy.
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08-07-2020, 04:55 PM | #7 |
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That's crazy. No real good reason for it other than "they can." I guess if you're somewhat close to the border and know someone in the US, maybe have it shipped to them....
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Thanks for the input from both of you. I'm still considering rolling the dice with LMC but I'll give it some more thought.
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08-24-2020, 11:04 AM | #10 |
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wish my seat belts looked that clean. Awesome work.
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08-24-2020, 12:56 PM | #11 |
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They didn't start out that clean. It took some soaking, scrubbing and cleaning. That is a service that I'm offering now, seatbelt restoration. Take them out and send them to me, I'll get them looking good again.
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08-24-2020, 04:00 PM | #12 |
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how do you prep your plastic pieces for dying. It seems when I spay a piece it will scape off the next day with your finger nails. I think I am putting it on with thin coats maybe I have to go thinner. any thoughts/?
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08-24-2020, 05:24 PM | #13 |
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Dyeing success, is all about prep. Through cleaning, with either Dawn or SEM soap, that’s the small blue bottle. Next is using SEM plastic prep and then Adhesive Promoter. I use the wet on Adhesive Promoter, and your first very light coat of dye goes on while it’s still wet. The dye, I don’t use SEM, they have discontinued a lot of ours colors for our trucks. After that, just very light coats of dye. I’ve seen to many times, that people dye without any sort of prepping, and if the parts have any sort of oils on the parts, that would explain it peeling that easy.
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08-25-2020, 07:56 PM | #14 |
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Just completed a Black Vinyl Deluxe Benchseat and it’s headed to Massachusetts. Fully restored 81-87 seat, using an original foam.
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08-31-2020, 08:08 AM | #15 |
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The seat in the above post was delivered. The trucks owner sent a pic after he got it installed.
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I have spent some much needed time on getting more of the seat tracks restored. I’ve been letting them pile up, because they are not fun to do. But I’m getting down to my last few tracks that are restored. So it was time to get busy.
First couple of pics are how they start out, before Restoration. Next are after they are rust free. Some of these were not sliding, because of the rust and build up of gunk over the years. But once I get them restored, they slide like new! Final pic, is of them painted and ready to use.
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Nice
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Another fully restored seat with a New Foam. This is a Burgundy Velour Deluxe. Going to be picked up, going to Michigan.
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This bench was done like this when I purchased the truck , nice combo I thought !!!
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09-05-2020, 06:29 PM | #21 |
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Wow! That’s nice
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Would you just sew up the cover and ship it? I live in Calgary Alberta. I have an 87 GMC with a black deluxe velour seat.
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11-09-2020, 10:05 AM | #23 |
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No sorry I can’t, because I have a guy that makes my covers for my seats I restore. We can barely keep up with the seat orders. If I just sold covers, I would never have any for my seat restorations. Especially the Blacks & Charcoals, those sell like crazy.
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Just finished up this 78-80 CarmineRed seat. It will be picked up from Georgia. I didn’t fully assemble it, since it’s going on the shelf until it gets picked up. But it looks almost identical to this seat ( pic #4 ). The only difference in the seats, one of the seats is the 1st Design (cloth to the end of the seat). The other is the 2nd Design (Vinyl on the ends of the seat).
I also restored a set of seatbelts for him.
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Working on a 73-76 GMC Benchseat, Blue. Here’s some before and after. I only have the seat bottom cover on so far.
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