Hi there, I picked up a banana seat for a project I'm working on. It was in two pieces. The bottom is metal (with the seat tube mount) and the other half had a rusted out metal dish that held the foam/plastic cover. On this latter part, the metal was totally rusted out so I removed it. I want to recover the whole thing but I'm not sure how to affix the vinyl to the metal base. Any ideas/suggestions?
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use some spray glue contact cement ...may work ?
That definitely makes sense--the problem is the rusted out pan basically has no edges--it will not take the fabric down past the bottom pan. So, I'm left with just the bottom pan, the padding and the rubber cover. I may just sandwich together what I have and contact cement the rubber over the metal lip if I can stretch it enough. It was a free seat so I might as well tinker 
Thanks for the advice everyone!
Thanks for the advice everyone!
get a bunch of those new style paper "clamps", with the springy, bent metal part. Let the glue get good and tacky and clamp the heck out of it! I wonder if you could slit a skinny piece of hose/tubing and make a sort of piping around the edge...glued on :?:
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You could drill holes around the edge...maybe every 2" or so just up a litte from the bottom edge. Then put on your pad. Add the cover over the pad and glue it with contact cement like Mark said with the large size paper clips. Then get some copper rivets at the hardware store, perforate the cover where the holes are and put the rivets in and crimp them. That should hold it. I can post a pic of the paper clips and rivets if you need to see what they look like. Gary
