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Re: Strip: 3D model for a seat
By:Les
Date: 4/23/2012, 3:57 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: 3D model for a seat (Bill Hamm)

: The old fashioned steel tractor seat is a pretty good model, pretty
: comfy for just about everyone.

: If you're going to carve minicell with an angle grinder, and this
: works very well, do it outside otherwise it'll take you forever
: to get rid of the black dust inside your shop. I make a 1x4 wood
: box to hold the block of foam and stake it to the lawn, the
: angle grinder can grab the foam and toss it a long ways, takes
: far less time to carve it if you don't have to keep chasing it
: around the yard :)

: Bill H.

I agree with you Bill. A neighbour has several old tractors! (We're all different.)
so for my first build, I borrowed the seat from an old Fordson Major, c1960.
Covered it with cling film, (I'm not sure what you call it on your side of the pond),
then laid in five or six sheets of glass with thickened West 105/207, and just cut
the edges to fit the boat. Everyone who has tried it has found it quite OK. Even
suits my bony old back end!! I'll use that seat as a pattern for my new build.

Les C.

Messages In This Thread

Re: Strip: 3D model for a seat
Silviu -- 4/19/2012, 7:21 am
Re: Strip: 3D model for a seat
Joy -- 4/19/2012, 6:49 pm
Re: Strip: 3D model for a seat
Bill Hamm -- 4/22/2012, 1:52 am
Re: Strip: 3D model for a seat
Les -- 4/23/2012, 3:57 pm
Re: Strip: 3D model for a seat
Bob Johns -- 4/23/2012, 7:28 pm
Re: Strip: 3D model for a seat
Bill Hamm -- 4/24/2012, 12:57 am