[Spridgets] Seat bases

[ldsp]

Why not talk to Alen F instead of trying to re-invent the wheel?

Leo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Rowe" <mdrowe at optonline.net>
To: "Spridget" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 4:10 PM
Subject: [Spridgets] Seat bases


> Today, I took my BE seats out of their garbage bags, stripped off the 
> covers, and found the metal bases and backs rusted beyond recovery.  All I 
> have is the seat frames and sliders.
>
> So I am looking at the seat bases wondering how to make something cheap 
> that will not rust.  It would not be hard in luan ply and epoxy composite, 
> with which I have experience. But there is a lot of structure in there 
> that has no obvious purpose.  The two big stiffeners on the sides of the 
> bases, for example, have holes at each corner that would appear to provide 
> access to a bolt.  But there are no bolts under (at least on my slider 
> bases).  There are two holes in the bottom of the bases at the level of 
> the tilt bolt, but again nothing under to access.  Does anyone know 
> whether these holes have a function in a BE, or are they for something on 
> another car?
>
> Michael Rowe
> '74 Midget
> '60 Bugeye kit
> Long Island,NY
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