Better Living Through Upholstery

This morning six reupholstered seat backs arrived from Wisconsin, and they look excellent.  My thanks to John Sheldon for arranging this and providing the transportation.

In particular, the straps over the seams are very well done.

I needed to attach the brass handles, though, and that took some time.  Some of the original brass screws that hold these in place had broken, so that had to be fixed.   Tim helped by supplying me with replacement screws from the Sirinek Collection.

Meanwhile, John and Gerry were painting more 306 parts.

Steve and Pax were working on polishing up Liner parts, but somehow my picture of them got lost.   Sorry!

Something looks different when you wander into the old ("Lean One") shop.  The sliding door in the east wall is open...

And inside, contractors are finishing up work on the Lean-Zero.  Notice how the light fixtures are hanging from the ceiling.

Finally, I managed to get a handle on all six backs.  And then they were taken over to the 319.

While we're in Barn 8, here's some progress that Richard has made on his display of historic rails.

This is actually more interesting than you might expect.  The explanatory labels are nicely done.

I loaded the new seat backs into the car, and installed one.  That took a while, mostly because there's very little clearance between the inner bracket and the wall.  I hope to find a better offset screwdriver to make this process easier.

But the seat certainly looks nice.  Next stop, Jewell Road!

Finally, this nickel-seat cushion was taken home for recovering.  That's an easy job.