I would like to first thank JO back on April the 19th I posted that I was redoing my seat due to comfort problems. JO contacted me and offered to send me a package of Supracor. When I inquired about the cost he didn't answer but asked about my weight. On May 4th I received my package of Supracor plus foam and two Motobrick shirts, thank you JO at no cost to me. JO the instructed me on how to go about installing the Supracor and the type of glue needed. I had replaced the base foam in preparation to doing my seat but now with the Supracor I decided to start from scratch so I redid it then I carefully cut out a slab and tried sitting the edge of the Supracor with a scrap bit of 1/4 foam in it and found out that I needed to cut it out more. As well as fitting the Supracor I was lowering the seat. As per Jo's advice I went as far forward and back as I could and cut out right to the edge on both sides. I then made up a cardboard pattern and cut down JO's 1/4" foam to fit the gap followed by the Supracor and another layer of foam to wrap over the edge. Once I was happy with the fit I glued it in place with the recommended spray adhesive. The whole seat was then covered in 1/4" foam. The next bit was to cover the seat in vinyl that I had previously bought. I had a bit of trouble finding stainless steel staples but eventually found them at Ray's Marine and Canvas in Caboolture one stick $5.00. After trying to wrangle the vinyl into place I gave up and called in a mate who used to be an upholsterer. This happened yesterday on the 23rd May and is where the comedy of errors started. Before I bought the stainless steel staples I had tried using my staple gun using standard staples into the seat pan on my bike it worked fine. My mate started to glue and stretch the vinyl but when he went to fire the gun into the pan with the stainless staples they would not penetrate fully. No worries there is a Super Cheap auto store up the road where I had seen a heavy duty gun. We went up to buy the gun and staples to fit it just in case. only to find they did not have short staples to suit the gun. Bought the gun anyway with the understanding that it could be returned if it was not satisfactory. It wasn't, it would not fire the staples into the seat base arrgghh. Returned the gun and decided to swap the hand gun for an pneumatic gun, only problem was they did not have staples for the pneumatic gun Arrrgghh. Got a refund and headed for Bunnings hardware to get a pneumatic gun, there I bought a cheap Ozito air stapler and the correct staples hallelujah. Got home opened up the stapler packaging and carry box, one slight problem. There was a slight lack of staple gun in the box ARRGGHH. Drive back to Bunnings and tell the girl on the door who had just seen us leave with the stapler, that the box was empty. She looked a bit suspicious, but I said if I was going to pull a scam I would have done it with a better brand than Ozito. She took us to the refund counter where they found a "D" marked in black marker which stands for display. Apparently the display box is meant to be put away in a drawer somewhere. Drive back home feeling guilty about having put my mate out over what he thought was a quick little job. Get back home and the new pneumatic gun works hoobloodyray. Another problem the surfaces as due to the fact it is now 1400 and we started at 1000 the mate has to be elsewhere and can't finish the job. Mate is coming back today to finish it off thank heavens for good mates. So hopefully unless world war three starts I'll be road testing this afternoon. An extreme thanks to JO who without his generosity this project would not have been possible. And a thank you to my mate Lyndon who did not even bat an eyelid over the whole stapler saga. Part two to come.
Regards Martin.
