samjc
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| posted on 5/5/13 at 08:08 AM |
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DIY seat runners
Hello all ok well first response I know I will get is that these are not runners but they do adjust just not in the easiest way, right so I have my
fiberglass seats and floor all ready and my plan is I would like them to be bolted securely together but with the option of adjustment at a later
date, so my plan is two piece of angle iron, angle ally or angle stainless (which ever I can get cheaply at the time) one rail either side of the
seats fixed to the floor of the car the other cut to a slight angle to allow me to sit comfortably with a helmet bolted together with alen key bolts
and nyloc nuts, the adjustment idea is to have holes drilled in set intervals along the bottom rail to allow other to drive.
Good idea ?
Any help as to material thickness as I know ally would need to be 5-6mm but would 3mm stainless be ok to support 105kg ?
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designer
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| posted on 5/5/13 at 08:17 AM |
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For the sake of £25 why not buy some?
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samjc
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| posted on 5/5/13 at 08:31 AM |
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Fancy being diffrent and had bad experience with some cheap seat runners
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ReMan
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| posted on 5/5/13 at 06:30 PM |
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Tell us more.
Did they try to touch you inappropriately?
www.plusnine.co.uk
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britishtrident
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| posted on 5/5/13 at 06:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
Tell us more.
Did they try to touch you inappropriately?
They hit the buffers when they came off the tracks.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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samjc
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| posted on 6/5/13 at 09:03 AM |
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haha no but did scare the life out of me when something went twang under the seat when I adgusted the seat at some traffic lights after my brother
borrowed my car, to then pull away well the car did but I flew back with the seat and it jammed fully back so had to dive forward to knock it out of
gear and pull over but even in a vice with a perswasive hammer the rails would not budge so I tend to prefer fixed seating or leave the factory stuff
in, maybe just me and cheap crap.
Anyone recomend spme good rails and and pictures of their set up, also has to be MR IVA friendly.
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samjc
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| posted on 6/5/13 at 09:18 AM |
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haha no but did scare the life out of me when something went twang under the seat when I adgusted the seat at some traffic lights after my brother
borrowed my car, to then pull away well the car did but I flew back with the seat and it jammed fully back so had to dive forward to knock it out of
gear and pull over but even in a vice with a perswasive hammer the rails would not budge so I tend to prefer fixed seating or leave the factory stuff
in, maybe just me and cheap crap.
Anyone recomend spme good rails and and pictures of their set up, also has to be MR IVA friendly.
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owelly
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| posted on 6/5/13 at 11:31 AM |
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Hows about fixed mounts on both seats but positioned with so you could swap the seats over giving different a position? A simple over-centre clip to
secure each one?
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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samjc
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| posted on 6/5/13 at 12:04 PM |
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Sounds a good idea but what do you mean by a over centre clip ?
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owelly
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| posted on 6/5/13 at 01:50 PM |
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Something like:
http://www.nfauto.co.uk/fasteners.htm
Little brackets to locate the seats with the clips to feep them pulled into the brackets.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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