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Well it has been a funny week - my wife was prescribed statins for a marginal cholesterol issue and she has had a really bad reaction to them (they are now in the bin). So my family matters took a lot of attention for a few days, but now she is on the mend I have assembled the covers for the second ...

Life often intrudes into our hobbies Mike! I'm looking forward to updates on the LM when you get back to her. John G has told me that his seat base was upholstered by a furniture restorer quite a while ago so may not be completely authentic but I will still add further stuffing to my seats. Yesterda...

Looking back I think I must have been crazy to take this old car on, but I'm glad, at this stage, that I did. I don't think she has seen a public road since around 1960 so I'm planning to take her out this year even if I haven't got a windscreen! I have ordered some padding and some webbing: on a Zo...

Driver's seat placed in the car to see the effect. The hidem on the back is not in the right place along the top but it is only lightly tacked in place and is easy to correct. It is very comfortable and gives a really good driving position. Unfortunately the carpet I have used is very stiff unlike t...

On reflection I think I have under-stuffed the seat base especially at the front under the knees. Not a big deal as I can undo the cover and add more filling. I won't do that right now as the seat is useable and I can experiment with the passenger's one before taking any backward steps.

Cover sewn to the frame underneath so this part of the first seat is finished. I have to pad the inside of the metal frame within which the seat is located then cover that with leather. The cover for the back rest is ready for fixing so the final part will be to make the piece of carpet that covers ...

Just the seat base with a few clips pulling it more into shape.

Mock up of seat number 1. According to John G the leather is sewed to the wire base of the spring frame then the bottom is covered in hessian. The back will be glued to the rear of the steel back plate and finally tacked in place when I add the carpet and the ring of Hidem to the rear. This has been...

Phew, piping is not easy especially the first time. Still I have an acceptable result on the first side of the driver's seat although there are a couple of needle marks where they shouldn't be when I went off track. I stapled the piping in place on the top piece then sewed that with the machine. I f...

I already had this material in the shed Brian and it makes quite a nice firm backing. I can't remember what it was called or where I bought it but it can be shaped with scissors and you can pull the fibres out along the edge to feather it out. The zipper foot came yesterday so I'm going to practice ...

Their stuff is very good Graham - I have their voltage regulators on a couple of cars as well as their LED lights. I added brake lights and indicators to my Light Six which originally only had a single rear red. Being LEDs they draw little current.

The zipper foot certainly looks to be the best option Brian and its good that you have confirmed you used the same tool with great success. I am indeed enjoying learning something new and I'm grateful to you for encouraging me to have a go. I'll have a look at Segal's shop in Salford as finding supp...

I have checked with John G, Brian and he doesn't have any padding on his original seats. I do in fact have a layer of padding between the top of the springs and the hessian as the mesh had a few spikes where the steel had rusted. Having stretched the padded base layer over it it is pretty comfy (eve...

I have tied the springs on one seat base using baling twine (I have an enormous roll of it donated by a farmer friend!). This was just to reinforce the mesh which was generally intact over much of the base. Because the mesh was a little spikey I added a layer of scrim foam before adding the hessian....

Thanks Brian - i will be doing something similar between the springs, which is a method outlined in an upholstery book my wife recommended. I have also ordered a piping foot for my sewing machine as my next adventure is making the seat bases!