Looks like the xylem and flom thred is DOA, so we gotta start another one... Ok,Ok, I bought a new piece of black vinyl for the back package tray today from JoAnn fabrics. Gotta luv dingbats... the gal cut 2 yards as per my request but scanned it twice. Went to the cashier and told her about the Faux Pas so she re-rings as 1 yard. Ahhh, the cost of doing business.... I get the stuff home and of course, being made by the chinaman, the bolt was rolled hot and it was kinda stuck together doubled over, no biggy, but theres a few major wrinkles in the material. Working in a trim shop as a kid, we would use a steam gun and the wrinkles would shrink flat. I don't have a steam gun, so whats the next alternative? Stretch it out flat on the hood of my black truck? Heat gun and stretch it? Gimme some ideas here... Who the heck was ZED anyways????? Bill in TR
ZED was the sick SOB cop with the chopper at the end of pulp fiction. His key chain had a "Z" for "zed" on it. It was bruce willis who had that tag line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Pa4f2dhNQ
. . . just roll it out on the black hood in full sun, and it should go flat, or end up like ZED ! :TU:
That scene in the basement of the pawn shop is one of the strangest scenes of any movie I've ever seen. I wonder if Zed ever had to deal with the two black guys with a blowtorch and a pair of pliers....
"Break out the GIMP" Just checking to see if anyone knows any Quentin Tarantino flix and is also paying attention to my dilemma... Heat and some stretching seems to be the cure. The melted diagonal crease from china are just scars from the naugha scratching its back on a barbed wire fence! Bill in TR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2zMwtolhmY Maybe its a reservoir dog skin. "Think I look BAD? You should see the other guy..."
Been down with a damn texas flu bug (Im in Wisconsin BTW) since the wife just got back from San Antone with G-kids et al... Gave me a while to research some wrinkle removing ideas from the 'net. Really hot yet REALLY wet is the main solution. On guy did some custom covers that had some wrinkles and loose material in the center of the buns. He took a 3 quart dish and rolled up wash clothes, filled it with water and nuked it for 5 minutes. Hotter than Haides' he put them out flat on the cushions, lettem cool, and presto. No wrinkles. The other best bet is a steam generator, AKA steam gun. The same search showed this unit working just as well, for $39.00. Wifey just got back with one from Kohls' and we used it on a brand new pillow case. Popped the dang wrinkles out like you ironed it. Ironing on a wet towel came in 3rd, but as we already tried that method, the wet towel welded itself to the vinyl. NO CONTACT seems to be the rule. Ill hafta run a video of it in operation, cause we all know how we hate wrinkles. Just look in that darn mirror in the morning LOL... Bill in TR
Is that Peter Greene or Bill Murray??? :eek2: BTW... steamer worked pretty well. Some sun tomorrow and we'll call it a dunne deal... Bill in TR
Just about got the game back on after the great influenza outbreak of '15... so I got a few days in on shop time doing my stuff and Manitowoc Jeff's model T Ford stuff. After the PO's feeble attempt at making a package tray, and my iggernance of trying to re-use it, out she came and I made a new on. The PO's old one was almost an inch shy on each side. Theres now a nice "crisp" corner, looking kinda Buickish, instead of like a dodge. It turned out surprisingly well and the newly covered seat back slipped into place; by far the easiest thing Ive done so far. However, with the dark red primer on the seat well, it shows a substantial gap on the sides, and across the back. Anyone care to give some input on how Buick hid these gaps? The seat back is gonna come out today and the primer is gonna get a coat of satin black, hiding some of the gap, but, the gaps bug me. The damn things you don't stop to look at when taking stuff apart! Bill in TR
Bill: On the factory package tray, there is a vinyl flap that is in the forward side of the tray that is glued to the metal at the top behind the rear sear back. That hides the the area you want to cover. UticaGeoff
On the tray area my kit came with a piece of material attached to be folded over on the trunk divider, so I glued it to hold it in place then installed the seat back. I will redo again because my tray corners are not covering my .187 short cutting. Is the seat back wrapped a little tight, (mine was) after few summer days with sun beating on it all day it seemed to loosen up and relax plus I have had people in the back seat to help stretch them out a little. Barely any gap now. This is not concourse restore method, just saying what I did. Tony
A case of semantics LOL! Geoff said there is and in my case there was.... Looks like we'll hafta make a camouflage filler for the gap. When I covered the tray yesterday, I went all 4 sides on the fold over. Now its world history/current events hahaha... These guys made the seat skins... Aside from being cold, I think they had shrunk from storage (maybe the original fitment??) and I had a devil of a time getting them over the springs to get the corners in place. They were partially installed once for a mock up with 6 hog rings and never properly stretched IMHO... Harbor Fright ratchet tie downs pulled the corners in < 1" on each end to get the covers on. They are bound to stretch in the sun a bit and get rid of the residual wrinkles too. Waiting for my wire tube to show up today, Ill probably pull the passenger bucket and tear that apart for the new skin. On Tony's dilemma, ya gotta learn to measure it TWICE, cut it THREE times and still have it be too short! Somewhere theres a trade secret in there but I have yet to decode it on the Rosetta stone! Bill in TR
Id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy! Performed a radical dissection of the frontal lower lobe today. Looks like a lot of SHARTING was going on to cause such decomposition LOL... On the road to Wellsville anyway... Bill in TR
