Ok, ya all know me by now, I gotta stir the pot.
Restoman, doesn't the polyethylene left under the cover make a kind of crinkling sound when you sit/slid on it?
I’ve seen upholstery cushions that were vacuum bagged with it in production while they slid the cover over and then they simply cut it with a big knife and left the plastic inside. But this looked like it was a very thin material, didn’t look as heavy as a painters cloth.
Also you mention using hog rings, is there a problem with the barrel spring clips that the AD’s used for the covers? My original cover (1950) had them (70 count) and there wasn’t one spot where the material had torn near a clip after 57 years. Seems like it was a pretty good fastening method.
Puncturing the material with the hog rings since it is just a heavy piece of wire, does concentrate the stress in a very small area and there is a tendency to tear at that point.
I’m aware that hog rings are the industry standard for fastening auto upholstery, but I would suspect that the clips were replaced by the hog rings because of speed of application.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
