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I'm sorry, did you say HEATED seats?
You're a freak.
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You build for comfort, you have heated seats up here, come on... 
I'm not some kinda of animal.......wife gets in when it's 20 below zero, she wants her ass to be warm. 
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12-30-05, 08:18 AM
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Order another seat bottom. It will look better and last longer.
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12-30-05, 11:18 AM
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Order another seat bottom. It will look better and last longer.
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I would agree with this one if you can get one in time. Gone all out so far, I would get the new foam as well.
Again great buildup makes me want to work on something 
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12-30-05, 01:47 PM
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I'm not some kinda of animal.......wife gets in when it's 20 below zero, she wants her ass to be warm. Matt |
Send her to Texas, I'll personally make sure it don't get cold.............  
I just got done installing the SOR covers and new foam on a customers FJ40 they really fit and sat nice.....and were not difficult at all.
Butch
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12-31-05, 11:24 PM
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Forum Lifer
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Happy new year everybody!!!!! I thought I would bring you up to speed on what I was doing when the clock struck midnight......it was sew, sew.....ok that was stupid...
Pics of yesterday evening and todays action. I can't say everything went as planned, it was far from it I consider myself a fairly good manager and planner, I had everything in place, people, facility and the right equipment...so I thought...
Mother in law got up here around 3 ish on Friday. Wife and her got going on seam cutting the OEM seat covers, that went fine. Then they started cutting out patterns, that went good. And then they went to sew......not good, not good at all.
I will keep this short, because I could fill a couple pages on how the machine worked for them. But, after taking it apart several times trying to make it so it wasn't so touchy on the tredle, nothing was working. The machine was either not moving or literally wide open where it was pulling the material out of your hand. We couldn't get a decent stitch, totally uneven with no consistency. After literally pissing away damm near a Saturday I finally gave up.
Now the good news. During the time I bought this machine over a month ago I had a want ad in the local trader for a industrial machine. I actually got about a dozen calls, but I had already purchased this one so I didn't need anymore. I did however remember one of the guys names that called, so I got on the phone Saturday evening, about 6 pm New years eve. Got a hold of the guy, was getting ready to go out with his lady to dinner. Asked him if he still had the machine, he did, sweet. Told him my situation, told me to meet him at his house at 8 pm before he left.
Now this guy used to run an upholstery business. Got there and he had a used Pfaff, looked pretty decent. My mother in law came with me along with a few samples of our material. He gave us a quick lesson and the thing worked absolutely sweet!!! Complete control on the treddle, fast or as slow as you wanted. Wrote him a check for $250 and we were gone. On a side note, I told him my problem I was having with the singer. He said he used to have a singer and it was the same way. Extremely hard to control, he hated it. One good thing is that the guy who I bought the singer from said if it didn't work out, bring it back. It will be on his doorstep Monday morning.
So, Pfaff is unloaded at my place around 9pm. Hauled in, cleaned up and put to work. Pics say it all, 2 hours later................you be the judge, but I think for our first seat cover, we did pretty fricking awesome I don't what you guys expect for my first stab at upholstery?????
And guess who did all the sewing........you guessed it 
Matt
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12-31-05, 11:26 PM
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12-31-05, 11:28 PM
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12-31-05, 11:30 PM
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01-01-06, 12:37 AM
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not to shabby happy new years by the way 
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01-01-06, 12:39 AM
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HAHAHA Matt that is awesome...good to see YOU helping out with a little sewing action....not sure if you got my email...stateside SOON!!!
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01-01-06, 02:17 AM
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nice surfboard!
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01-01-06, 06:20 AM
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Looks great Matt - love the work light in the dining room Interior is going to look sweet!
Happy New Year!
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01-01-06, 07:49 AM
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nice surfboard!
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Thanks, comes in handy in Minnesota!!
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01-01-06, 09:21 AM
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Good work Martha.
Looks great. I will be sending you my seats for recovering. You have serious "do it yourself" skills.
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01-01-06, 10:01 AM
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awesome work, those seats look great. i guess pops did'nt want in on the action though, huh?!
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01-01-06, 10:11 AM
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Thanks, comes in handy in Minnesota!!
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I can see that.......
Put it on the roof of the LV when you finish... 
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01-01-06, 10:18 AM
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bawahahahaha, great call! i can see the blank stares on people's faces now as matt and his lovely wife go driving down main street iin the LV with a surf board on the roof!
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01-01-06, 11:19 AM
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awesome work, those seats look great. i guess pops did'nt want in on the action though, huh?! |
No, the father in law doesn't want a whole lot to do with the sewing. He helps a bit with the seam ripper tearing the old ones apart and a few other misc. things.
We have plenty to keep us busy though
Matt
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01-01-06, 11:33 AM
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Looks great Matt - love the work light in the dining room Interior is going to look sweet!
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I wonder if the wife will let me try this? Also noticed the surf board. Looks great! Man this ride is really shaping up! Lookin' Good!
Happy New Year everyone!
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'97 4Runner SR5 - 4x4, leather, Toyo AT, TJM T15, LF 240s.
'63 Biscayne Wgn - Kandy Green & Tweed. Family Wagon 3rd row in the garage.
'89 FJ62 & '83 fj60 SOLD
Erskine College Upstate Cruisers
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01-01-06, 09:22 PM
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those look great man. Top notch work
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01-01-06, 09:38 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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hell, I use my heated seats in FL and just got back from MI.
good idea.
nice seat work too.
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01-01-06, 11:40 PM
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Fired up the Martha Stuart sewing factory early this morning Everything went pretty good.
We started the day working on the 2 bucket seat backs. Got those done by about 1 or 2 this afternoon. The girls starteed working on the rear bench while I started re-covering the bucket seats and hog ringing in them in. That went ok until I got to the new 79 seat foam I ordered from SOR. If you read a few pages back I commented on how much larger it was than the orginial. There was no way in hell the orginal size OEM covers were going to fit over that. I would have literally had to rip about 4+ inches to get it to fit. And after pulling on it so hard that it looked like the seams were going to blow apart I quit. So, I fixed up the original driver one pretty well, had to cut out some foam and adhesive in some new stuff. But got it looking pretty decent. Had to transfer the heat pad over from the SOR foam, but that didn't take to long. Needless to say, no more foam from SOR.
Rear bench covers took a while. A lot of pleats and they are extremely long, so it required several hands to feed them through the machine. But, we took are time, everything seemed to turn out really nice.
Anyway, few pics of the action today and some completed product.
Oh, and by the way........I personally sewed every stitch this weekend in all the seats I only mention that because I'm pretty proud of that. I do have to say though, most of the work is in the girls seam ripping, making patterns and getting everything ready to go, I'm just labor
Matt
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01-01-06, 11:42 PM
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01-01-06, 11:43 PM
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Holy Crap,
Those look great! Now I am starting to wonder if you made the surfboard also. Why am I asking...you did make that surfboard.
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01-01-06, 11:44 PM
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01-01-06, 11:46 PM
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01-01-06, 11:48 PM
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01-01-06, 11:50 PM
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01-01-06, 11:53 PM
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01-01-06, 11:55 PM
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