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The most comfortable Car Seat you've sat in
kahlid74:
So went back to the junkyard and I wasn't finding anything that jived. I found a great condition leather dodge minivan but if you remember, the bucket seats in the back have a 1 foot sub-assembly welded onto the seat frame and they don't have a mechanism for seat length adjustment. I then found a black leather Jeep cherokee seat that looked pretty great but it was automatic powered, and I don't feel like rigging a 12volt 15 amp system to power the seat. My friend and I talked and we thought we could power it with 1 amp if no one was sitting in it but the second someone forgets and sits down and tells it to move bam, chance of PS blowing. We then considered a custom/retrofitted PS to drive it and thought it would be fine but with the car not turning on, and the bolts for the seat not in view, we'd have to find a way to move the seat so I could unbolt it from the chassis and all that "thinking" was starting to hurt my head. I just wanted a damn manual seat.
Then I found it, the flow and stature was perfect. Here is the original battletech pod's seat:
Here is the seat I found, out of a GMC conversion van:
It's comfortable, is stable and the moving mechanism is in fairly good condition. For 10 bucks it just felt perfect. So now I need to wrap my head around either re-leather upholstering it or a seat cover or using some type of acid wash to remove the color/paint stains. I'd like it black but the red is kind of growing on me. If I could get rid of the paint stains I might be okay with rocking red in there. Would be kind of a cool color contrast but I'd have to have internals painted and fleshed out before I say whether it really works or not.
Thanks for all the advice/help.
michelevit:
congrats on the find.
It will probally clean up as good as new. Head to your local autoparts store and pick up some foaming upolstry cleaner. Spray it on, wait
and scrub it clean with a soft brush or rag. If you want to change the color they sell upolstry paint in a spray can.
kahlid74:
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DO IT
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DUDE, perfect. My call-sign in game will be "The Pink Cheetah".
My catchphrase -
Thanks Michelevit for what to start looking for. I'll dig into that and see what I can find at the parts store.
mcseforsale:
Here ya go..
Clean that thing with some purple power, or TSP, then use this:
http://www.duplicolor.com/products/vinylFabricCoating/
You're welcome! :angel:
AJ
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 11, 2012, 09:23:58 am ---So went back to the junkyard and I wasn't finding anything that jived. I found a great condition leather dodge minivan but if you remember, the bucket seats in the back have a 1 foot sub-assembly welded onto the seat frame and they don't have a mechanism for seat length adjustment. I then found a black leather Jeep cherokee seat that looked pretty great but it was automatic powered, and I don't feel like rigging a 12volt 15 amp system to power the seat. My friend and I talked and we thought we could power it with 1 amp if no one was sitting in it but the second someone forgets and sits down and tells it to move bam, chance of PS blowing. We then considered a custom/retrofitted PS to drive it and thought it would be fine but with the car not turning on, and the bolts for the seat not in view, we'd have to find a way to move the seat so I could unbolt it from the chassis and all that "thinking" was starting to hurt my head. I just wanted a damn manual seat.
Then I found it, the flow and stature was perfect. Here is the original battletech pod's seat:
Here is the seat I found, out of a GMC conversion van:
It's comfortable, is stable and the moving mechanism is in fairly good condition. For 10 bucks it just felt perfect. So now I need to wrap my head around either re-leather upholstering it or a seat cover or using some type of acid wash to remove the color/paint stains. I'd like it black but the red is kind of growing on me. If I could get rid of the paint stains I might be okay with rocking red in there. Would be kind of a cool color contrast but I'd have to have internals painted and fleshed out before I say whether it really works or not.
Thanks for all the advice/help.
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kahlid74:
--- Quote from: mcseforsale on May 11, 2012, 10:14:39 am ---Here ya go..
Clean that thing with some purple power, or TSP, then use this:
http://www.duplicolor.com/products/vinylFabricCoating/
You're welcome! :angel:
AJ
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Awesome. I am all set. Time to clean/paint. Not sure if I'm going to stitch a logo onto the seat or not. Would be cool.