Blaster Seat Covering Help

[steveyz250fpilot]

I have had a HT seat cover hanging around for many months now, and finally decided to tear the old stocker off and redo the seat. I've got 1/4 inch stainless staples and a pneumatic staplegun to get the cover on, so I think I have that part covered. However, I'm not going to run those crappy plastic sides and I wanted to bounce my ideas off anyone that has done this before. I have attached a pic that shows what I think will make the seat pretty nice. If you have any input, please feel free to post up with any suggestions. I am going to keep this seat stock length, so I'm not looking to cut it down.

 

[BruceSki]

i used the black plastic things because i was too lazy to do what you are suggesting. i did however shave down the back foam with a hot knife. the sander didn't work well for me. i also cut the seat shorter, which i found to make side mounting much easier. i see you don't want to cut the seat itself down though.

looks like what you have planned will work fine. just a little more work than i was willing to do at the time when i covered mine. i


one tip i can give you to make it easier to wrap the cover is to use the dap weldood on the cover and seat foam and glue it to the seat as you work the bulges out of the cover with a heat gun and pulling. it makes it easier than trying to get the cover tight with staples alone.

 

[madscientist]

http://hydroturf.com/images/sew74.jpg

it seems that that will work just fine from the image they post.

the thigh padding will help that spot gil loves so much on you stevie.

 

[steveyz250fpilot]

http://hydroturf.com/images/sew74.jpg

it seems that that will work just fine from the image they post.

the thigh padding will help that spot gil loves so much on you stevie.

Umm, that's the spot Gil loves on Shonuff... not me.

 

[madscientist]

not from my angle it wasn't shonuff was holding the camera.

 

[steveyz250fpilot]

Where's the pic!? Let's see it!

 

[blaster800]

I have had a HT seat cover hanging around for many months now, and finally decided to tear the old stocker off and redo the seat. I've got 1/4 inch stainless staples and a pneumatic staplegun to get the cover on, so I think I have that part covered. However, I'm not going to run those crappy plastic sides and I wanted to bounce my ideas off anyone that has done this before. I have attached a pic that shows what I think will make the seat pretty nice. If you have any input, please feel free to post up with any suggestions. I am going to keep this seat stock length, so I'm not looking to cut it down.

here is a pic of mine with NO side covers / I used a long breadknife to shave the hump by laying the flatblade on the long part of the seat and cutting parallel with the seat , then use a DREMMEL tool with a flapdisk to smooth out the rough edges , the flapdisk will cut it like soft butter '' use 2 hands with one resting on the seat to steady the tool or its gouge city !,then pad it like you are doing........ after I did the work I took it to the upholstery shop ! FWIW

 

[madscientist]

shonuff ate it.

 

[steveyz250fpilot]

He liked it that much eh?

 

[madscientist]

the wife made him, she was embarrassed to here he was a part of it.

lets do it again sometime.

 

[extreemthrottle]

you might want to consider gluing some thin plastic sheeting over the foam rubber as it does absorb water. this really helped me..

 

[SoCal_WaveBlaster]

where are you guys finding stainless steel staples?
i have a pneumatic staple gun

 

[steveyz250fpilot]

I have a friend that does upholstery. She ordered 1/4 inch SS staples for me....where I dunno.

 

[BruceSki]

got mine on ebay for 12-15 bucks shipped i think. It was enough to do two seats.

 

[clkwrkorg36]

I filled the sides of mine with two part expandable foam, and sanded it to the shape I wanted.

 

[AtomicPunk]

ace hardware has SS staples...(at least the one by me does)

 

[SoCal_WaveBlaster]

ace hardware has SS staples...(at least the one by me does)

i'll check ACE...thanks

 

[Scorn800]

Send the seat out to Jet Trim in AZ. They do outstanding work.

 

[GIL]

I finally got around to working on this thing some more. I took a belt sander and sanded the hump off the back. After that, I took 1/2 inch HT foam pieces and dap weldwood and filled in all the spaces. I then shaved down the styrofoam on the sides with a razor to get the sides somewhat "flat." I then pieced more scrap HT foam to put a full single layer over the plastic area. I came back with one more layer and ran it over the top foam piece then sanded it all down to be fairly seamless with a good contour. It looks really good in person. I'm gonna wait for it to warm up a bit before I put my black HT seatcover on so I can get it stretched out real tight.