NEWSLETTER
by Auto Restoration Videos

      Just a reminder, anybody who purchases the entire Auto Upholstery Training Course is available to take a one on one training lessons with me for only $6. per hour. I will just teach you what you want to learn. I still have a lot of projects here that you can pratice on. I have the whole interior of a 65 Chev Impala SS Convertable, 2 buckets out of a 90 Ford T Bird that have to be customized to look good in a 90 Lincoln Mk VII, LSC, And if you are really gun ho I have a 83 Buick Regal with a brown tweed Interior thats needs to look Like a Grand Sport... But If you start that one you have to finish it, because the car has to be sold before the winter. I am in the process of getting ready to paint it black. I have removed all the chrome and nosed it allready.

Or if you want you are more than welcome to bring one of your projects with you. If you have some bucket seats and you just have a small car, just take the backs off them and they will take up less space in your car. Let me know before hand of what you want to cover them with and I can order the material and have it ready when you get here. Again you can purchase it yourself and bring it with you. I'm not doing this for the money, I just want to see you learn how to sew. If by any chance I have a big project going on and I could use your help, I will pay you 6 dollars an hour just to help me.. But so far auto work has been really slow around here. This area is loaded with comuters that travel to NJ and NYC... And they spend all their money on gas and expenses. Women don't be shy, I am married and my wife will watch you like a hawk, me too. There is nothing like hands on experiance. There are some little tricks that just excape getting on video, I do the best I can but I can't cover it all.

For example, On a good Boat Carpet with a 3/8 closed cell backing and a propolene top. When you have to glue 2 pieces together you must have a perfect cut. Then you have to get some good contact cement like Weldwood and put it on both sides of the rubber mat, not the carpet face, let it tack up for 20 minutes, then you must stick it together. Now the tricky part. When you stick it together you must do it from the back of the carpet facing you and you must actually have a the rug come to a angle or a pyrmid when you stick it togehter, so actually the seam will be about 1/2 inch off the ground , this is still back side up. Let it dry 72 hours then get some super sticky double sided tape from Tape Specialities and place it over the seam. Remove the backing paper on it. Then get some heavy duty clear plastic and cut it about 1/2 wider than your 2 inch tape you just applied, and press it down on it.. Now you will notice that you will be able to see through the clear and see all the air bubbles in the tape. You have to press them all out. SEE if you didn't use the clear you would of never known how much air bubbles were actuall in there. Now flip the carpet over, it should look pretty good. Since you actually glued the carpet on an angle you were forcing the rug face to come together tighter than it would normally be.. Now say you still see a few gaps in your work, You need to get yourself a Hot Glue gun with High temp Clear glue, and two small mixing sticks. You put a little bit of hot glue in your void making sure that it is below the surface of the carpet and you get your two wood sticks. You push the carpet together from about 1/2 or 1/4 of an inch away from your split and press it together and hold it 20 or so seconds until it sticks together.. and do this to all your void spots. Then you can get a rubber hammer ot a plastic hammer and pound on the seam until the nap mushes together even moore. You shouldn't be able to tell that the carpet was even split after this... Oh Yea, Keep some steel weights on your seam to hold it down for a while to even mush it together even more...... Now I could of shown you this in 3 minutes and look at all the time it took to write it and it probably still isn't that clear.....Thats why you need the Hands On Training...