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Re: Upholstery questions

To: <djjob@noos.fr>, <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Upholstery questions
From: David Nock <healeydoc@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:20:35 -0700
We have a shop that installs the upholstery for us. He ran the MOSS
upholstery shop for about 12 years and is now doing custom upholstery in his
own shop. 
His web site is    www.franscustomupholstery.com

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 Phone 209-948-8767  fax 209-948-1030

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on 7/15/04 12:36 PM, djjob@noos.fr at djjob@noos.fr wrote:

> Ive received my new leather seat covers and Im searching for an upholsterer to
> install them.
> 
> Its likley the person I find here wont have done Healey seats so Id like to
> know a bit more about them, to pass on. The old covers were not original and
> Im sure were not correctly installed.
> 
> 1. Is there any material that goes on the back of the seat backs before
> installing the covers? Thin foam? felt?
> 
> 2. As the seat backs are entirely metal Im wondering how the covers are fixed
> in place to get a good tight fit. Are there clips? None came with the covers.
> Are they just glued?
> 
> 3. Same question re the seat bottoms. I know there are some small clips round
> the sides as I took them off when I removed the old covers. Is it just a
> combination of glue and these clips that are used on the seat bottoms.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Derek
> www.healeysix.net





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