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[lumberslinger178]

Originally Posted by flounder

OK Lumber,

Don't worry about the seat pics right now....just tell me how the bottoms attach and if the backs are just plywood or are they reinforced? *I'm going to the marine upholestry place tomorrow morning after I drop my daughter off at camp to get prices on redoing my seat backs and building the bottom seats (my boat doesn't have them). *I can get pretty close on the dimensions from looking at your pics. * I just need to know what to tell them to build the bottoms out of. *Do yours flex at all? *

thanks again, *

Maury

maury , mine are 3/4 marine plywood , bottoms and back rests they are solid no flexs at all and the backs are held on with nylon push pin clips * *kinda hard to discribe
iam goin to the boat in a lil while i will snap some pics

[mauryc]

Yea, the backs are attached with "double end christmas tree fasteners" I have yet to find any place to purchase them as most of mine are broken. The seat is the part I have questions about.

[Crusher]

HEY lumber, Hance & Smith on Bay Ave. Manihawkin had a used (very new looking) set of buckets just inside there showroom in the beginning of the season. Proberly off a Mako or Parker boat ;D Crusher

[lumberslinger178]

Originally Posted by flounder

Yea, the backs are attached with "double end christmas tree fasteners" *I have yet to find any place to purchase them as most of mine are broken. *The seat is the part I have questions about. *

flounder the bottom seats are mounted to the consol , there is a piece of 5/4 x3 mahogany that is bolted to consol and the seat just sets on the 5/4 and is held down with a stainless steel wing nut

[mauryc]

Wing nuts...thats what I thought. That answers my question brother. Thanks. I'm off to the upholestry store tomorrow.

[lumberslinger178]

good luck ;D ;D ;D ;D

[reelapeelin]

Wouldn't treated 3/4" plywood work best for remakin' seat backs/bottoms?...that's what I made my under-dash bulkheads and seat-boxes out of in "99 ... time and water have had ZERO effect on 'em ;) ...


And tell your upholsterer you want him to use STAINLESS STEEL staples ... Lowes has 'em ;) no ''runnin' rust" staple stains 8) ...

[lumberslinger178]

My feeling on treated plywood reel is that it delaminates quickly and seem to buckle if you dont nail it down quick