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Originally Posted by jaykay640
I checked with a colleague and she showed me a leather sample that would be what you want. The holes were lasered in!
Problem is....i can't get you any of that :-( I'll keep looking....!
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Oh err jk, what line of business are you in?
You can't leave me in suspense like that! Does she not have a supplier - they've got to be Chinese, surely?
BTW, thanks for the tip Jelp. That website is brilliant, but I can't find anything with the correct size holes.
Now here's a thing. I found the wife's travel hairdrier case today which is made of a kind of steel mesh which has exactly the right guage and hole size for my needs. Needless to say she has forbidden me from cutting it up!
However, I did take a blade to it today and cut a 5mmx5mm test sample section out of it - she'll never notice! The stuff bends really nicely but has the usual probelms with mesh ( it wants to fall apart at the edges) I'm sure if I cut it to shape then seal the edges with cyano etc. it may be OK. The problem is I'd have to make each individual seat panel first and cover it in mesh, then mold it, then sand the top surface flat, join it all back together as a single seat casting and then mould it again! I fell alseep last night calculating the holes needed if I drilled them out of plastic card on my mill... I reckon on around 6500 needed for the two seats, a headrest and two door top covers!
Should have taken up basketweaving!