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Took my seat for the 53 in to an upholstery shop and the owner is telling me that the c-clips from jim carter are to small and wont go over the material and frame is that possible? I know several of you have used these.

Thanks

if you mean the hog rings, any auto upholstery shop should have a stock of different sizes on the shelf for different materials and assembly techniques, if it's a furniture upholstery shop accustomed to using tacks into wood frames, ask'em to check their supplier

Bill

No, I mean the c-clips that go over the material and the seat frame so you don't have to use hog rings and they do not tear the material. The only example that I saw was on Denny Graham site showing his seat being recovered.

Thanks

The shop I use showed me three thickness of material that could be used for my seat. There is no way the stock clips would fit over the two thicker materials. My seat actually had a thick (but cheap) recover over the original and had much thicker clips. I saved both when I stripped the seats. The shop I use said they had plenty of new ones and didn't want them.

Chuck

Chuck, Thanks for the info. I will call J Carter tomorrow and ask about the size of the clips.


thnx

Chuck's theory sounds good.

I used JC's clips with JCs upholstery set on the seats in my Suburban. They worked fine.

Chuck could you please direct me to where I can get bigger clips,I didn't use the j carter seat cover and I guess the material is too thick.Or does anyone have
any Ideas as to where I could locate different size c-clips?


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my seat (51 chevy) the original clips were inside the channel that runs around bottom of the seat.The vinal was wrapped over the channel and the clips were pushed into the channel to hold the material. when I redid the seat I put it back together the same way using a putty knife to push the clips into the channel. Check out my post here in interiors seat is done

eric( elm (51 Basket case)), did you happen to know the name of the clips of the clips you used? Ive been looking everywhere for them and cannot find them. I broke about 20-30% of them taking them out.

The "barrel" clips that we originally used on these seats
worked fine and lasted 60+ years. And the original material
was a very heavy gauge Naugahyde. It's tough but the clips
will press over this thickness and like your socks do to
your ankles, will eventually press deeply into the
material leaving an impression in it.
The reproduction clips "look" the same as the original ones
but they are not heat treated correctly. Many of them are to
hard and in stead of acting like a spring, they snap when
you try to press them on. And some are to soft and don't put
enough tension on the material. I find that even after nearly
a decade, they still haven't left an impression on the
upholstery material that JC used. I mixed them with as many
of the original clips as I could save and those original ones
do hold well.
There is nothing wrong with Hog Rings, they've been used in
upholstery since the beginning of time. Unfortunately they
can't be used with the flange that the GM seats wire made
with.

Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL