[TR] [Bulk] Re: TR3A leather trim

[Alex]

HI Dave,
I am assuming that you are referring to the arm rests and the curve piece 
that goes up the rear fender. The way I did mine was to create a wooden form 
that was placed in a bench vise that the metal piece sat on while the 
leather was carefully stretched on to it. The leather was soaked in water 
over night in my tub. I used 3M spray adhesives and they came out great. 
When the leather dries it is usually after the adhesives has, so it forms a 
nice tight fit as it shrinks. The trick is the sharpest curve at the bottom. 
This takes patience and a slow process of rolling it out with your fingers. 
Any kind of mechanical roller like a wallpaper roller will only flatten out 
the grain and it looks like crap. If you go to fast than you get wrinkles. 
If you are interested in the form, I can try and dig a picture out. I 
remember that I saw the form on this forum, so someone else has it also.

Alex Manzo
59 TR3A

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Dave1massey at cs.com>
To: <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 4:44 PM
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [TR] TR3A leather trim


> In a message dated 8/2/2011 1:57:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
> geomurphy at windstream.net writes:
>> I am restoring a 1960 TR3A.  I have leather and vinyl strips from the
>> Roadster Factory that supposed to be sufficient to cover the Dash and all
>> the trim pieces.  I have enough leather to cover the long piece above the
>> dash and two doors and the two arched pieces directly behind the doors.
>> But
>> There are three other trim pieces that are under the convertible top when
>> in
>> the down position.  One long piece in the very back and two that are in
>> the
>> rounded corners.   Should these three pieces be covered in leather or the
>> vinyl material?   Thanks  George Murphy, 60 tr3A Waleska Ga.
>>
>
> I received the same thing in my kit from Moss.  I presume the rear capping
> pieces are to be covered with vinyl.  Likewise, the leather seats have
> leather seating surfaces but the rest is vinyl.  >et me know if you 
> figured out
> how to stretch the leather over those curved pieces.  I gave up and I'm 
> going
> to sent them off to someone further along the learning curve.
>
> Dave