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[theWoosh]

Hi Folks
bit of a daft one but I'm sure someone else has had this and fixed it elegantly...

The vinyl on my electra (ex)-x (now kick-start only) is coming unstuck from the underside of the seat.

I've tried a bunch of different sticky solutions but none of them have worked. Need a contact adhesive I guess... Anyone got any good ideas?

Cheers,

[zippy]

What is your base made from?

[Mark M]

Evo Stik usually does it for me but at points of strain (front and sides adjacent to the main sitting area!) I find it useful to add a pop rivet with a spreader washer if the base is steel or a heavy duty staple if the base is plastic. REgards, Mark

[zippy]

....Or a startooth washer on an shortened aluminium nail or rivet around the base under the cover for a steel pan, Staples from a propper staple gun for a plastic pan like MarkM says. I used this method for a Kawasaki drifter seat. If you are going to do the entire hem of the cover, it might be worth your while removing the cover to put a layer of that thin silky polythene sheet (like you see sometimes in butchers shops or in packaging etc) over the sponge rubber,- it's porous! It stops it absorbing water in the autumn and spring and turning it into a freezing brick in the winter!