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Well #@[[!
I decided to tackle re-webbing my seats this afternoon, since I felt like a nice easy job. It's really not too bad a job. Just get the webbing from the auto upholstery shop, and 4 pop-rivets and washers per seat. Uh, make that 6 per....ah, eight.
First, double over the webbing where the wire clip goes, drill two holes through the webbing, and install the pop rivets and washers. Then drill the new rivets out, put the clip in and put two new rivets in. Weave the webbing through the other clips tensioning it as you go and carefully measure where the last clip should fit in. Drill your holes, and learning your lesson from before, put the clip in and pop rivet it. Weave everything back in place, then take it out again, drill out the rivets on one end, flip the clip over, and re-pop rivet.
Second seat. We've learned our lessons, right? Fold the webbing over, drill the holes, put the clip in, and pop rivet in place. Good job! Thread and tension through the other clips, measure, drill, check orientation of the clip, pop rivet in place, and TA DA! It's done...well that extra webbing on this one looks awful so before I put it in, I'll just scissor it offfff.....fu%#! I just cut the clip off of the webbing! Now it's too short! And I'm out of webbing, and the upholsery shop is across town.
Lessee...we can just splice the ends back together with two more pop rivets. Yeah, that looks OK, afer all, no one will be lifting the cushions to look, so let's try it out: Put the cushon in place, and have a seat. Feels MUCH better, even bouncin...ng SPROING! WTF? Lift the cushion up, and of course, the tension on the rivets at the splice is differrent and they pulled through.
Tomorrow, I'll go get more webbing and pop rivets.....
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