If you can get the material, I use the nylon whips for a weed eater and
roll the material over it. contact cement works great. If you can stitch it
too, that's better. I needed to make the piping at the edge of my dash top
on my BT7
Ira Erbs
Portland, OR
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Simon Lachlan <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk
> wrote:
> Over here I don't think that stuff comes off the shelf readymade, if you
> see
> what I mean. I've gone to upholsterers and asked for it and they say,
> "Well,
> there are so many colours that I can't keep the right ones. But, show me
> the
> colour from my stash of material or yours and I'll make you up a length
> right now." They take a strip of the appropriate stuff, place a thin
> nylon(?) round length inside it and stitch it up tight along its length.
> Takes them not time at all. Handy too as you can stipulate how wide you
> need
> the surplus material to be....desired width depending on where and how
> it'll
> be placed in the car. I find that the stuff around that finishing plate
> under the door lock needs to be quite wide. (Start wide and reduce. Other
> way round doesn't happen!)
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:
> healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Tom Felts
> Sent: 21 May 2013 12:43
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Healeys] blue "piping"
>
> I have lost the piping strip (blue) that you fit between the console and
> the
> dash on a BJ8----would anyone happen to have a piece lying around you don't
> need?
>
> Thanks
> tom
> $12.75
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