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  • 5 years later...
Posted

DAMN.... been a couple minutes!!?

Well I pulled out the H/O convertible project this morning and dusted it off a bit to see where I left her. Seems it now time to address the rear seat area to narrow the seat cushion and back up enough to allow for the folding top mechanism on either side. I determined two pleats from each side should be about right for the mechanism cavity, so I applied a strip of masking tape to each side of the back seat and cushion and then trimmed it to be two pleats wide. I'll be coming in two pleats from the outside diagonal panel of the seat back and making my joint there to try and hide the seam at the seat pleat.

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With the tape trimmed to size, I first remove material from the underside of the seat at the floor level so I could easily make my cut along the floor line with my razor knife. I next took my hobby saw and made the vertical cut along the door edges and then proceeded to make the cuts on the rear seat. I used the center seam between the two pleats I was removing as my cut line and then slowly made the cuts thru the seat using my razor saw and my razor knife to finish the cut once my saw bottomed out on the blade top edge.

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With the seat corners removed, I'll next sand the cut edges up to the pleat seam that I'll be using as my finished edge and then figure out the top mechanism well and arm rest offset.

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Hopefully it won't be so long until my next installment......

  • 5 weeks later...
Posted

Well had some time this morning so I pulled the H/O project and made the second sets of cuts on the rear seat. Didn't cut as true as the first set put close enough that I can (hopefully) make them work and have an invisible seam....

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Taped the pieces together to get an idea how well they fit together as well as setting in the car....
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Next step will be to sand the edges of the cuts smooth and then slightly bevel the back side of the edges so I can get a nice heavy seam of superglue on the back of the joint.
 
Stay tuned.... 

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  • 1 month later...
Posted

I thought before I glued the side panels back onto the seat portion it might be easier to cut the side panels to create the trim panel offset for the top hinge mechanism....

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Next steps will be to form the hinge mechanism surround and arm rest platforms before gluing everything together. Guess I'll need to run to the local hobby shop to pickup some sheet styrene.

Until next installment....

  • 5 months later...
Posted (edited)

A bit of progress to report on the HO convertible build.

Glued the seat sections together and started smoothing out some of the super glue that squeezed out of the joints....

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Next task will be creating the rear seat side panels that wrap around the top frame cavity and the rear seat armrest....

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