[Spridgets] Surfer's Seats

[Michael Rowe]

Those of you in hot climates may be interested in the "surfer's seats" I found at Home Depot.  They are $18 "Sunilla" mesh outdoor chairs with a steel leg/arm frame that can be taken off leaving just the seat-shaped side pieces that support the mesh.  One stretcher bar remains in place at the top.  The bottom can be stretched with two 3/8" threaded rods with washers and nuts in the place of the leg/arm frame.  I will fake up some kind of framework to lift the seat and mate the threaded rods with the seat sliders from my very dead current seats.  These mesh seats will be cool and impervious to wet bathing suits.  See photos at   http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh6/mdrowe_photo/SurferSeats/  
Ideas on how to make a frame are welcome.  The simplest would be a plywood box, but that seems inelegant to me.

I am describing this adaptation before it is completed because I think the chairs will not last long.  I noticed them in Home Depot a week ago.  Today, half of the ones of the color I wanted were already sold.  For $18 apiece, anyone who thinks he might be interested should just go out an get some before they are gone.  If they don't end up in your car, they are cheap and comfortable outdoor chairs.

Michael Rowe
Long Island, NY
Aspiring Surfer Dude (of a certain age)