No not the one young people and our porcine bacon-buddies have hanging from their nostrils, I need to order a bag of hog rings to put the upholstery back on my truck seat since I destroyed them removing the lot. I see 3/8", 1/2" and 3/4" online, no idea what that measurement refers to. What is typical for ringing the upholstery to the seat frame? Time is of the essence, I need to add them to the shopping cart.
If you really need them in a hurry you might find some in a local GM Dealer's parts department. The trick may be finding someone who knows how to access the GM Standard Parts catalog. Tell them they should be somewhere in Group 8.900.
So the measurement is across the teeth or the spine? Is that a 1/2" ring? I found this on Amazon. Looks like the measurement is inside the back so your ring pictured above is 3/4"? And there are straight backs and arched backed for some reason. I am guessing from the responses the 3/4" straight back, stainless steel is the way to go? I am also buying my daughter a foam knife. This look decent?
I wish you were closer. I'm down to my last 8,000 or so... Seriously, if you end up hog tied lemme know. I'll throw a **** load in a USPS envelope for ya.
I aint close to anything of note. I got em ordered and my daughter will get use out them as I am trying to make her an auto upholsterer. She is learning. She is making snowboarding mittens (gauntlets?). She was at a bookstore the other day and bought a book on muscle car interiors. She sent me this picture and asked if I recognized the stich pattern, I answered definitely Mopar. She said 66 Charger. She didn't know people could tell makes from interior patterns. I think she will be very good at auto interior.
In the '70s I worked in FoMoCo's Trim and Seating Engineering offices in Dearborn. The Trim Shop used mainly 3/4" straght backed hog rings. The trimmers had a special tool, like a vice grip like pliers with a groove in them that gripped the hog ring and the open end faced away from your hand grip. Squeezing the tool collapsed the ring around the anchoring wire(s). Billy, if you have such a tool the job will be easier. I suspect the arched back rings are useful of you do not have the appropriate tool and are designed to collapse more easily using regular pliers.
^^^^in a pinch you can take a set of cheapo pliers, clamp them in a vice with the jaws closed and drill a hole down from the end through the jaws to give you the little groove. Not quite as good as the ready made hog ring pliers but a lot better than trying to use pliers with no groove in them. Luckily, most places that sell the hog rings have hog ring pliers as well Good luck with it
Be careful not to order hundreds, if not thousands of these - *****- less- units. Notice these have no points on them. You’ll never get these to poke through, these pos are worthless for upholstery. Fence work, maybe?
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