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Originally Posted by dice daniels
Before I got into upholstry I thought I understood the concept well enough to fix a friends headliner. We went out and picked up some nice material and I grabbed a can of the high strength stuff all the while acting like I knew what I was doing just so that he would let me fix it. It was killing my eyes to look at it let alone the heat rotted foam that flew around in the car when the windows were down. We scraped all the foam off the headliner and just glued the material directly to the headliner without padding. It looked great. We used some of the realy soft animal printed material you can get at any walmart. Kinda like the blankets you can but at those little parkinglot stores that come through town in the summers. Anyway It lasted all day And I got all kinds of compliments from my friend. The next day he went out and the material was pretty much hanging on by the edges that were tucked under. He was pissed. I finaly did what I should have done originaly and went to an upholstry shop and picked up some scrim and some good adheisive. The kind they used had to be put on with a brush. And to make it even more secure I paid to have some buttons made with the scrap material and spaced them in a dimond patern. That's actualy the job that got me into upholstry. That week I went to work at the same shop pulling staples and by the end of the month I was doing automotive interiors. I ended up doing the center panels on his seats and the dash and rear deck out of the same material. It looks like a pimp mobile but it was good practice. Anyway I talk too much. 3M sucks ass.
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Ahh, one can never talk too much!!! It's always good to share stories and swap ideas, pics of projecots, etc...
...helps give new ideas and prevent future disasters like using that 3M would cause!!! I got my uphostery job by calling around ay back when and asking if someone would be willing to train me as an apprentice. I knew the basicas already on how to do most of the this, and new several wholesalers in the area and a godd deal about what products to use..I just needed practical application time and skill...so Darryl was more than willing to take me in and train me as an apprentice...I still thank him to this day...I can't repay him enough!!! He didn't have to do that back in the day.