Beaded Seat pad talk....

[Eck]

Anyone else have the problem with the cheap fishing line breaking all the time?

I think I'm going to quit using these beaded seat covers.

 

This is the second one I have purchased (plastic beads, not wood) and this particular seat pad I have repaired it 4 or 5 times now using nylon thread.

I fix it in one place and another place breaks apart a week or so later.. I had the same problem with my last beaded seat pad which was wooden beads.

 

I sure wish they made them using materials that can withstand some basic usage in place of that cheap fishing line crap they use.

[M61A1MECH]

Eck, what about that flat woven lacing cord the aircraft / military use for binding wire harnesses ? It is really tough in a static application, not sure I have ever used it for a dynamic application like your beaded seat.

 

Here is a link, http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/BreydenLacingTapes.php?clickkey=545286

[Eck]

Eck, what about that flat woven lacing cord the aircraft / military use for binding wire harnesses ? It is really tough in a static application, not sure I have ever used it for a dynamic application like your beaded seat.

 

Here is a link, http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/BreydenLacingTapes.php?clickkey=545286

 

I appreciate the link and suggestion @M61A1MECH, but I meant to imply in my posting above that the "fishing string" that "THEY" use to manufacture these beaded seat pads is pretty darn cheap string.

The repairs that I have done with a super strong nylon cord have not ever broke. It is ALWAYS that cheap clear fishing string junk they use. It breaks in different places after I make a repair.

Heck, I don't want to "re-sew" the entire beaded seat pad. Man that would be a job.

After 34 plus years in the aviation arena, I just happen to have some of that Aircraft cord your talking about. It would work well fro repairs also.

 

[Prairiehammer]

What brand is your beaded seat cover?

I've had my BeadRider for six years and perhaps 40,000 miles on two different Ventures. It even went for a long tumble down the median while attached to the RoadSofa when we were wrecked on the 1990. Other than the elastic cord losing it's "stretch", I have never had any problem with mine.

If your beaded seat cover is made by BeadRider and you are the original buyer, they will repair it for $20.