Big Blue's Bucket Seats

[Gary Lewis]

Thanks for the leg work, Jeff.  

[Gary Lewis]

Got a couple of cans of Regatta Blue ordered this morning from Vinyl Pro.  Should be in on Thursday.  Boy are those people good to deal with.

And then I got the holes in the console filled.  The G-Flex is setting up right now, but here are a couple of pics.

The pic on the left is the console after hitting the area around the holes with a propane torch.  You'll see a whitish color outside of that area, and that is what the console looks like after scrubbing with a gray scrub pad and Dawn soap.  But the flame brought the color back.

And the pic on the right is with the holes filled - and after I used my fingers to smear a few of the tiny "hairs" of glue that were outside the holes.  In most cases the epoxy is domed slightly above the level of the console so I can cut it back a bit after it sets.

[ArdWrknTrk]

I used some ancient G-Flex the other day to glue some stainless flange nuts into my nephews broken spoiler

[Gary Lewis]

Hope it holds for him, and I'll bet it will.  So far I've had excellent luck with it.  

[ArdWrknTrk]

I'm pretty sure.
I glued a piece of the bottom of a pop can over a crack.
This stuff is tenacious, and even when it's so old it discolours, it's still plenty strong.

If anything I'd be concerned about my prep of the stainless, but I got after them with a stone in my Foredom.  

[Gary Lewis]

Sounds like you prep'd it well.  I'll bet it holds.

The glue is setting up nicely in the console's holes, and I'm hoping to spend some time tomorrow smoothing things out.  But I'm not going to prepare the console until I get the paint as I want everything to be squeaky clean.  Maybe I can do that Thursday?

And the Plasti Dip is to be in Wednesday so maybe I can spend some time painting the slides tomorrow to be ready to dip them.

[Gary Lewis]

Trimmed the epoxy and then scrubbed the area with Dawn & then SEM Soap.  I think this will work.

Now it is time to address the tracks...

[Gary Lewis]

Got the bench seat legs painted today, and picked up the Plasti Dip.  May get to put the legs on the platform tomorrow and dip the seat track handles tomorrow.

[BigBrother-84]

As you say, “progress”!

[Gary Lewis]

It didn't really feel like much progress today as it was a lot of prep and a little bit of painting.  But when (assuming) it comes together tomorrow that will be progress.  

[ArdWrknTrk]

"progress" is good!  

[Gary Lewis]

Some of it did come together today.  I got legs to the seat platform and the platform itself installed.  I think it turned out a bit better with the rusty bits painted.



And I got the adjusting arms prepared and dipped.  The prep included drilling and media-blasting the end of the arms with the rest protected by a plastic bag.  Can't tell how solid the "knobs" will feel until tomorrow as the Plasti Dip has to set up, but there are about 6 coats on both of them and I'll bet they are much more comfortable to grab now.

Plus the SEM paint came in this afternoon so I hope to paint the console as well as line it with felt tomorrow.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Progress is Good!!!.

[viven44]

That dip (and everything) looks great. Now you don't have to worry about legs getting bruised from those handles.

[BigBrother-84]

WOW!  Nice job!

And I love the knobs result!

[mat in tn]

looks great.

[Gary Lewis]

Thanks, guys.  I think I'll be happy with them.

[Ray Cecil]

Great looking seats Gary

[Gary Lewis]

Thanks, Ray.  Or is that Kotter?  

Here are the knobs/handles mounted:

[Ray Cecil]

What do you mean Gary? Who/what is Kotter? Im Ray, the same Ray thats been hanging out here off and on forever....