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What should I do to get new foam in under these seats?Pics
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<blockquote data-quote="novaman" data-source="post: 266016" data-attributes="member: 6585"><p>Welcome to Tinboats! </p><p></p><p>It looks like the seat "pans"(metal to hold foam in place), were galvanized steel rather than alum., based on all the rust showing. They may have rotted where the screws that held them in place were and let the foam drop down. You could replace them with plywood, aluminum, or try to salvage the existing pcs if You don't want to put much money in it. The best way would be to bend up new pans out of .063 alum. sheet with a lip bent on both top & bottom egdes to increase rigidity since they also provide support for the seat board itself. I'm not good with the "Paint" screen on the computor, so envision 2 pcs. of metal bent with 1" lips at both top and bottom to form a "c" channel, with the distance between the bends the same as the thickness of the foam under the seat. The "c"s would face each other under the seat, next attach theses to the seat bottom and fill with the cut pcs. of foam. Next rivet a couple of 2" strips across the bottoms of the pans to keep them from spreading apart over time and to help retain the foam. Slide the seats back into the brackets on the sides of the hull and fasten in place.</p><p>The boat looks like an old Starcraft I once had the had the same problem, and that's the way the seats were done in it. Good Luck and Great Fishing <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novaman, post: 266016, member: 6585"] Welcome to Tinboats! It looks like the seat "pans"(metal to hold foam in place), were galvanized steel rather than alum., based on all the rust showing. They may have rotted where the screws that held them in place were and let the foam drop down. You could replace them with plywood, aluminum, or try to salvage the existing pcs if You don't want to put much money in it. The best way would be to bend up new pans out of .063 alum. sheet with a lip bent on both top & bottom egdes to increase rigidity since they also provide support for the seat board itself. I'm not good with the "Paint" screen on the computor, so envision 2 pcs. of metal bent with 1" lips at both top and bottom to form a "c" channel, with the distance between the bends the same as the thickness of the foam under the seat. The "c"s would face each other under the seat, next attach theses to the seat bottom and fill with the cut pcs. of foam. Next rivet a couple of 2" strips across the bottoms of the pans to keep them from spreading apart over time and to help retain the foam. Slide the seats back into the brackets on the sides of the hull and fasten in place. The boat looks like an old Starcraft I once had the had the same problem, and that's the way the seats were done in it. Good Luck and Great Fishing :) [/QUOTE]
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