[Boatanchors] OT: Results of the "Vinyl Repair" post

Bill Henderson bill.henderson at ocdsb.ca
Fri May 11 15:59:02 EDT 2018 

 As stated...

"After letting the cement dry 4 hours (per instructions) I proceeded to
patch the hole and spread some of the patch material over the
surrounding area.

* The patch material consists of a number of smallplastic 'pots' containing
different colors of the patch material, can bemixed for custom colors.*  As
the armrest is black that was easy, just
used the black pot."




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On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Bry Carling <AF4K at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Do they have a kit for doing OTHER colors than black? I have a brown shack
> chair that has a similar problem with a vinyl tear.
>
>
> Bry AF4K
>
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> Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2018 12:38 AM
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> Subject: [Boatanchors] OT: Results of the "Vinyl Repair" post
>
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I posted a question concerning how to repair a 1 1/2 inch cut
> in a wheelchair vinyl armrest (new chair, my boo-boo in unwrapping it :(
>
> Want to thank all who replied, it was a great help.  This morning I went
> down to Riley Auto parts and they had a small Vinyl repair kit by Permatex.
>
> Bought it, brought it home and carefully read the instructions.  Seemed
> easy enough if I took my time.
>
> The hardest part was tucking a small piece of the provided 'backing
> cloth' under the vinyl, using the thin plastic spatula provided, then
> glue it with the provided glue (clear like the 'Duco airplane cement' of
> old. The cut edges were already separating a bit due to the pressure of
> the foam rubber under it.  No way to close the cut so that the two edges
> would meet well, and still do the patch job.
>
> After letting the cement dry 4 hours (per instructions) I proceeded to
> patch the hole and spread some of the patch material over the
> surrounding area. The patch material consists of a number of small
> plastic 'pots' containing different colors of the patch material, can be
> mixed for custom colors.  As the armrest is black that was easy, just
> used the black pot.
>
> After smoothing the patch material of the repaired area the next step is
> to lay a piece of the 'textured paper' (several different patterns) over
> the patch material and then heat/rub it to cure the patch material.
> That is very important as heat is the curing agent!
>
> To do this, they provide a special tool, a small wood dowel with a metal
> disk on the end.  They suggest heating the disk with a flatiron set on
> the highest heat, rub the disk over the paper and repeat until cured .
>
> As I was doing this on my workbench, which has a SMD solder rework
> station with hot air gun, I used that to heat the disk, heating it,
> rubbing the paper, heating it and so forth.
>
> Next step is to carefully peel the paper off and check to see if it's
> cured, if it isn't, repeat the above step with the paper.  In my case
> for the second round I chose to CAREFULLY heat the area directly with
> the hot air gun (no nozzle), keeping it far enough away so as to not
> melt the vinyl.  That worked very well.
>
> RESULTS:  it doesn't look professional, the paper didn't do the best job
> of texturing it. Doesn't look bad, just not perfect.  Still better than
> the cut which likely would have grown with time. I REALLY think that in
> this case the results would have been better if I hadn't used the paper,
> but rather used the heat gun to directly cure the vinyl, it was very
> smooth and nice looking before I put the paper on it and did it their
> way. . .
>
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