An Introduction: Chris Collins and Morris Tilly Project

[jack neville]

I drilled holes around the edge of the seat base to plug weld to the frame and turned down some half inch bolts to match the stepped bolts that hinge the to seat halves together.

[jack neville]

That almost completes the bottom half. The seat back on the complete set of seats we have are not good enough to use so I will make two sets of those.
There is a reinforced section on the bottom which has two small pressings which take the weight of the seat back against the legs. The first thing to do was unpick the wire edge and fold out the frame for a pattern.

[jack neville]

I had some sheet metal folded and scribed the shape onto it. I cut a piece of 10mm bar the same shape to dress the edge and folded a new piece of 4mm wire into the edge using a pair of pliers.

[jack neville]

I cut a piece for the reinforcing and plug welded it in place

[jack neville]

I then scrapped up a simple die to form the small pressings.

[jack neville]

They didn't come out too bad.

[jack neville]

I used welding rods to get the correct size round to make the small keepers for the seat cushion straps.
small tabs were added to the seat back and holes drilled to attach. Apart from adding the handbook pocket to the rear of the drivers seat these seats are complete.