Well big thanks to Graysummers for that kick in the pants that was needed big time :mrgreen: You’ll never guess what I did in the afternoon yesterday :roll: ??? I only fixed up my own seats and they’re now superberer than superb :lol:
When I turned them over, I had one broken coil on the front leading edge / corner as I guess that’s where the most action happens as in seat versus lardy *** combat :? . I repaired this broken spring with a large 240V electrical connector, the type that has two screws in, I wouldn’t mind an even bigger one if I can find one somewhere :mrgreen:
I had a good look at the coir and as said above ^^^ you could see where the springs were embedding into the coir. So I’ve cut a piece of 15mm foam the same size as the inside of the seat pad. I then removed the little wire link that links the two central springs together. Carefully and slowly I pushed this foam under all the springs and I ended up using a round nose gauging trowel to help with this and after about four little nicks, I put on a pair of thin fabric work gloves because there’s a lot of sharp edges down there :shock: so why didn’t I put them on as soon as I started bleeding from the first cut :? or even the second cut :? or perhaps the third time :? Anyway I eventually put the gloves on , not because I’m the sharpest tool in the box because I’m not, I put them on to stop the blood going all over my lovely new white foam and that’s when it dawned on me that I’m not getting any more cuts :shock:
:shock: duuuhh! As always I get dead carried away with what I’m doing and don’t worry too much about incidentals and consequences :roll: Anyway, I’ve spread the foam out and it’s looking very good, but it does look like the springs might chomp into it inside of a week or two so I’m looking for something else a little tougher but still flexible and I came up with breathable roofing membrane that I happened to have lurking about from another project. So I repeat this spreading operation and get the membrane between the foam and the springs and it seems to work well. So I try out the seat with my fist and leaning on it and I can feel an improvement straight away. Now I’d forgotten about the wire link, so I pop that back on and it improves again, and this starts me thinking :msn4: yes, dangerous I know
So Im thinking and I’m getting the tunes on at the same time, I’m thinking that the creaking etc is because the springs are a little weaker after fifty years of fat ***** landing on them and these links are like spreading the weight and helping the springs to work in unison rather than letting them fight against the weight individually :idea: :idea: :idea: So I get some garden wire, the kind covered in green plastic and I join the springs together by making links winding the wire around twice then tightening just a little, I’ve now linked each of the edge coil springs to the long springs on each node or juncture and every other wiggle in the long springs I’ve made new wire links to each other to spread the load. This worked so well that I did it all over again on the passenger seat (Mrs Ozziedogs)
but this time I tried a slightly different technique, I used foam, and I used roofing membrane but instead of wire I used cable ties or zip ties for them from overseas :lol: I wrapped the tie around twice then clicked it in, I didn’t pull them tight as they’ll become tight as soon as some butt cheeks venture close Is my thinking. Well,,,results??? Not only am I impressed and pleased with myself but I’d go so far as to say they are almost like brand new seats :shock: :shock: :shock: I’ve been for a test drive, Mrs Ozziedog thinks I’ve got different seats and swapped the covers, the difference is really night and day. I still think the spring repair with the cable connector is a tad suss so I’ll source another spring or get a bigger connector or weld a little bent bar on each side of it.
Ozziedog,,,,,,,,pleased, pleased, and chuffed :mrgreen:
