Spring steel for seats.

[sloper]

Goodaye all

Have to rebuild the seat springs in the Torana but where would l go in Melbourne for 3mm 1/8 diameter spring steel?

Also the zigzag springs

Luckerly l have enough left to copy.

PS should see the bases after a citric acid bath

regards Bruce

[steve the ford guy]

I got rid of a pair of VP Crummydore buckets and they used zig zag springs, still easy to find

[Oldcol]

You can get them from

[Greg N Smith]

R U OK Col ?

[enjenjo]

You can use carbon steel piano wire for the straight pieces. You could make a jig to bend the zig zag pieces from the same material.

[Mudgy]

What about carving up an old mattress? Are they made of similar stuff?

[T1916]

Hi
Muddy,s right, find an old mattress. All around the edge is 3 mm Spring steel. Back in the 80,s one of the trimmers asked me to heat up some Spring steel out of a mattress and bend it to match the broken zigzag samples he gave me. I warmed it up with an oxy to dull red, bent to shape and quenched in water. He told me he has repaired seats like this for years and never had a problem. He often used the coil springs out of mattresses to build up seat cushions on some of the vintage cars he used to trim.


Cheers GT.

[Mudgy]

I only thought of a mattress, as people I know lately have told me they are a pain to dispose of. So you could probably find one for nix, and have a load of wire to play with.

[Maffra]

Also the zigzag springs

Hi Bruce,
I am fairly sure I have a few of these around here somewhere which I understand are from the HK, HT, HG Holden era if you are interested. If so, you are welcome to them. Let me know and I can have a look.
Regards

[turns]

It has to be easier to get some springs from some old seats rather than fabricate to fix your current seats?

My 0.02

Cheers Turns

[Maffra]

Hi Bruce,
I had a look and found this stuff . . .



Any use ?

Regards

[sloper]

l'll take that lot.

just need some spring rod 2.5 /1/8

Didnt think of mattress, we just had a hard garbage collection in our area. doh

regards Bruce

[woody28A]

l'll take that lot.

just need some spring rod 2.5 /1/8

Didnt think of mattress, we just had a hard garbage collection in our area. doh

regards Bruce

Bruce, what about a conversation with your local furniture upolsterer. Some older domestic seating had this type of springing.

[Gman]

I know this is a very old thread, but I had a similar issue a while back. I went to my local mattress recycler (in Geelong) and they said I could take as much edge wire as I wanted. I ended up taking a whole mattress frame, I've used quite a few of the springs and most of the edge wire. I will need to go back and get some more soon!

[FRANK BASILE]

Whelan springs in Corporate Boulevard Bayswater. I noticed similar stuff on their counter on Friday when I went down there. They are making a replacement for one of my busted boot lid torsion bar springs in our 66 Fairlane.