How to Repair Driver Seat Foam using kitchen knife and Tapered Grater Home-made DIY. 

Amigo, gracias por los videos, yo quebré en Bogotá Colombia con las cuarentenas, y decidí que cambiaría de profesión, solo mirando sus videos llevo ganados más de 2000 dólares, le agradezco a UD y a los que hacen videos de tapicería porque con estos vídeos pude alimentar a mi familia, llevo dos meses trabajando y la meta es llegar a Estados Unidos a trabajar algún día, muchas gracias

Dude, a freaking Grater ? I Love it ! I’m doing a snowmobile seat right now. You are the Man !

Wow! I have watched about five relevant videos on foam replacement for the driver seat. I was about to get started with just a few more tools. But after watching yours I’m going to go out and buy more tools and a few cans of spray glue. I’ve never seen any job done with such craftsmanship. And I can see your hands feel and touch with an assessment of the foam as you work. So the lack of audio was just fine because we could see it all in action. But in retrospect, I see you didn’t have to do the work of getting those little attachment rings off the bottom of the seat. That’s must have saved about 30 minutes.

I've watched this video several times and everytime I'm amazed at the artistry of this man.

Hola MECA,,, MARIO ERNESTO,,, Un gran saludo,,, y una vez más gracias por regalar tus conocimientos y experiencia,, como siempre,,, también un saludo cordial a los seguidores de tu Canal,,, su amigo Oscar de Playa del Carmen Q R México,,,

Sir your a true craftsman those tools never would have known how simple and clean your job is! WELL DONE.

Thanks for the video! Wow you are talented! Let me share what has worked very well for me for FREE MATERIAL!, much of which I've learned from my brother who is a professional upholster, with making a new bench or van bench seat or boosting old car seat foam: For car seats that need boosting, most often they just need more foam added to be like new again, I find used carpet pad foam often in a neighbor's trash or dumpster behind a carpet store. Remove the car seat fabric clips and carefully peel the front and sides of the fabric to gain access under the seat foam core, which often requires the seat be unbolted from the floor. Place a sheet of it or two under the seat foam core, right on top of the spring wire deck(carpet pad foam is tougher than the core so this also stops the spring wire deck from cutting into the seat foam core bottom). Your second sheet can be cut smaller just covering the area the butt sits on. Also inspect the top of the foam core and add carpet pad foam or regular foam where might be needed like by the door, worn from getting in and out over the years. Spray adhesive can be used to bond the foam to the foam but is not necessary except for any top foam added to the side. Your seats will be firm and new like for many years now, it's like free magic! The seat back usually doesn't need a any foam because it's the seat that gets the body weight on it from gravity. If you seat back should need a boost, you can add polyfill batting on top of the foam for free-see below. These methods can also be used on sofa seat cushions. I'll share below where to find FREE used good foam below! To make a bench- where to get free foam: there is so much FREE foam and FREE polyfill - in many soft pillow backs and polyfill batting often wrapped around foam cushions for the taken in people's discarded sofa's and chairs found outside dumpsters at apartment complexes and the back of thrift stores. Even though it's used, it has been well protected covered inside the upholstery. Of course in the event it's a cat lady's furniture and the cats happened to piss all over it, you'll smell it and know to move on lol Most apartments don't allow pets or make it expensive to have a pet so a lot of furniture is pet free. Use a box cutter to open the old furniture to get at the free foam or poly as you need or use the zipper you'll find on some pieces. Some foam in old sofas contain like a 1" thick panel of foam on top of other foam that is perfect thickness to add to your sofa foam to give it the new boost again. Foam can be cut to size using a hack saw loose blade only in your hand holding the end making a sawing motion. New foam looses some of it's firmness over a break in period, say after 5 years depending on how much it's sat on. But then the broken in foam lasts a very very long time at that softer level firmness before it really starts to break down. You might be able to buy complete new expensive foam cushion cores but they will sag after the break in period as well. This is why so often we love a new firm piece of furniture but then it gets soft and saggy on us. Now the sofa companies could to put super firm more expensive foam in their sofa's when new that might be a perfect firmness for us when broken after the 5 years break in period, but then we wouldn't buy the sofa if it's not nice to sit on from the beginning in the show room, so there's the dilemma when you fabric is still in great shape after 5 years but the foam is now sagging. The free home furniture-sofa fix: So just add more foam if you can firms it up to make it like new again, unzip and compress the foam as you slowly peel off your fabric from the cushion core. Then either add more foam to the top or bottom or hack blade saw through the center horizontal line of the foam core all the way from the back to almost through the front but not through, so you leave a good hinge of foam in the front. Then place about a 1" thick of used foam in the sandwich and holding it closed peel the fabric back over the foam cushion. You can also add more polyfill pad to the cushion core on it's outside to add more softness and support but adding more foam is the big boost. Spray adhesive is optional to bond the foam to the foam. People often think that when the seat sags that the springs under the cushions, have weakened but no, it's the foam, the springs are metal and strong, the foam is just foam. Discarded trash at a dumpster is free for the taking and your reducing what goes to our planet's landfill. This is win win, real free hard core recycling, helping to save our environment as well! Take care!

I love how resourceful you are, using everyday home/kitchen tools to create what you do! Bravo!

I was going to give this a thumbs down, because there's no sound, but after watching its amazing just how easy they made this look though I know it won't be right off for someone. GREAT VIDEO!

How skillful ,with just the simple tools. You are restoring that seat. Thank you for your demonstration and continue to post many more projects God bless you for IMPARTING your knowledge to the world.

this was badass, very glad I watched this before buying new foam.

Ha quedado realmente bien! Con este tipo de vídeos se ve que no hace falta herramienta muy sofisticada para que los trabajos queden perfectos, si se tienen buenas manos, como usted 👍👍 Muchas gracias de nuevo!! 👏👏👏

This seat will hold again a heavy weight for next 150k miles, great job!

Muy bien maestro es usted un profecional gracias por compartir sus ideas en reciclaje De material como sus herramientas., saludos desde El Bronx nueva York.

I watched, hypnotized. Fabulous techniques.

De cara já senti firmeza no trabalho .

Oviously this guy is a PROFESSIONAL he knows what is DOING. Great JOB.

Omg the first person ever to find a use for that side of a grater!

This is my job😁 Pagawean kuring ieu mah😁

Muy buenos tus vídeos muchas gracias x enseñar ah como hacerlo

Exelente muy bueno lo del asiento de la moto con costuras de forma de diamantes mis felicitaciones desde Arequipa_Perú.

Молодец! Мастер своего дела!!! Удачи!

Great job on your videos! I find it a great help. Thanks!

Te doy mi like, muy bueno el trabajo , seguire tus consejos para hacer mi baket con tubos de pvc

Thank you very much for the lesson to reform the car seat.

me gusto mucho como explico todo....gracias

another awesome video meca. you make it look so simple, but, i will give it a go - at least i have an idea of what to do now. thanks mate

احسن فيديو رأيته على اليوتوب شكرا لك

Ai sim um ótimo trabalho 🙏

I think it's a good video, you manage to combine ingenuity, creativity to solve a problem, many times there are no options to fix it, for lack of parts or high cost of them, in the end a great solution and a good job from my point of sight. Greetings Mecca. I believe that you are an artisan, my area of work has more to do with the mechanics, electricity and electronics of the car, we are part of a generation that somehow we have much to contribute, but much of the current system is making us disappear unfortunately . My passion is all the car, its maintenance and care.

Olá. Belo trabalho. Uma.duvida. qual a especificação da espuma que vc usa? Aqui no Brasil temos os modelos D28, D33, D45

Just watched to figure out how to fix a damaged seat foam. Thanks for sharing some trade secrets.

Ya moms cheese grater ! Love it . Good work buddy

What spray-adhesive would you recommend? Where's the best place to buy the foam and adhesive? Great video!

I like that you show people how to do upholstery, instead of keeping it a secret. This tradition should be passed down. Where I'm from theirs not many upholsters that's why I became one and i love it and I've learn alot from you. Thanks man

Wow!! Great work.

Un rayador de cocina!!!!!...para darle forma a los contornos...👍👍 Eso es ingenio y creatividad... 👏👏👏👏.. Excelente

bravi complimenti vi seguirò certamente

*wow this was very helpful*

Great video, thank you for posting.

الله أكبر كبيرا و الحمد لله كثيرا وسبحان الله بكرة و أصيلا.

Como de costumbre Mario excelente trabajó

Exelente trabajo muy bonito como nuevo

Buenas noches Maestro tengo una pregunta la esponja que trabaja es de poliuretano? Gracias me encantan sus videos saludos y gracias por su pronta respuesta

Increible!! otro suscriptor nuevo por aqui

Aí eu gostei muito obrigada vou fazer também Campo Grande ms é nois

Great video, thank you!!!

Bacana seu trabalho 🙏

Vídeo fantástico! Cada dia aprendendo mais!

Olá Maestro. Excelente trabalho. Muito bom. Tu és o melhor do Mundo!!!!

Thank you for your video...

Wow, great job! Looks wonderful. Thank you for the video.

Brazil, muito bom

Pretty damn cool dude. Nice job

great skill!

sehr gut, phantastisch... ideal.. und preiswert!! 👍

Serviço bem feito, mas já vende espuma no formato do banco que Deus abençoe a todos amém

great done 👍👍

Awesome. Loved the cheese grater. It made me laugh, but its so clever! Thanks for sharing the video

Yes!I'm colleague!😎👍💝

superb great job.

You make me inspire and laugh about your tools

Saludos mi hermano desde cdmx

very good!

Nice fix!

Main bhi aapki tarah video banata hun achcha Laga❤❤

Muy bueno.

Hola Mario , estoy viendo su video pero no hay sonido , me intereso mucho este video porque tengo un pequeño problema similar , el mío no está tan dañado pero si siento que la esponja está como separada por dentro , mi carro es una Ford ranger 2002 y el asiento dañada es el del conductor . Mi pregunta es si en las tiendas venden pedazos pequeños de esponja o solo la lámina ? Gracias.

Te ganaste mi respeto, felicidades maestro, nuevo sub

Well done

Wow que bonito video tefelisito te doy un 10

Exelent 👍👍👍👍

Muy bien

What kind of foam was the black colored one? And how thick was the foam? Great video!

Exelente trabajo maestro saludos

great video!

Fantástico. Eres un profesional, verdad?

This is a very good video. He makes difficult work look very easy.

AWESOME

Однозначно лайк.

Very very good bohat safai se banaya

Hola Mario saludos desde gran Canarias. Me gustaría preguntar y si compartieras un vídeo de como lavar los sillones del coche

Wonderful

Sei bravo

Goes to show ya just what a few house hold items will do for ya... awesome job..!

Wow thanks for this video . I have one side worn out and wasn’t sure how to repair now I know . Will any type of glue work ? I can only have access to spray glue in can form like 3M heavy glue .

Excellent

Sensacional seu trabalho, admiro trabalhos artesanais, que tipo de cola o Sr usa

me gustaria saber donde conseguir la pistola para pegamento y como se llama el pegamento, gracias saludos exelente trabajo

Просмотра больше спасибо. Красиво ремонт изменя чисто кресло машина

Great job on your videos. Keep them coming. What kind of hand sew is that you use to cut the foam with. I would like to get one ... good job on your English . Keep up the good work . Your videos have helped me out a lot. Thank you much.....

فنّان 👍👍👍👍👍

Very nice

I am in Thailand, rebuilding the Drivers seat on a Toyota van. What kind of glue can I use. I am using D 45 Poly foam in a situation exactly like the one you are showing, but I can't find any type of spray glue that I can purchase here. Pro Tack is great, but they can't ship to Thailand. Do you have any suggestions?

Maestro, su video no tiene audio! De qué auto es ese asiento? Gracias.

Bien continu

Que tipo de materiales utilizó para saber cómo buscarlo. Gracias

What kinda blade you using to cut with ?

Hay quá. K hiểu nhưng vẫn thấy tuyệt vời 👍

hola, siempre miro tus videos, tengo algun conosimiento de tapiceria, quise tapizar un asiento de auto, hice todos mis moldes basados en el cover viejo, pero cuando lo puse no se ve apretado ni nada se ve como desinflado o con muchas arrugas que consejos me podrias dar