Subject: COZY: Mbeduhn: Re: upholstery
From: mbeduhn@juno.com (Mark W Beduhn)
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:09:54 EST


Eric Westland wrote:
>I have my strakes done too, are you doing your own upholstery?  If so,
wanna share >some tips with me?  I would like to do my own, but don't
have a 
>clue.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Eric

This is my upholstery plan:

1)  The headliner and armrests will be covered with brown vinyl (glued on
with contact cement).  The only difference being that the armrests will
have 1/4" foam under the vinyl for a softer feel.
2)  The floor is a lightweight indoor / outdoor carpeting (brown).
3)  The rest of the plane will be a brown tweed upholstery fabric, cotton
batting and a backing fabric..  My wife will quilt some simple pattern to
hold them all together, then I will glue it to the fuselage walls.
4)  I made some seats (experimental) with 2" soft foam above 1" firm foam
(like tempera foam).  I made them one piece instead of the three pieces
shown in the plans.  I used 4 buttons on the back, and 4 buttons on the
bottom to hold the fabric to the foam.  I simply wrapped the fabric
around the foam and glued it to the back of the hard foam.  It didn't
look too good until I installed the buttons - then it looked great!  It
was also very simple to do.

Mark Beduhn
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