New use for mudflaps

Post by **Fuse** » 06 Nov 2006 07:41 pm

I bought new flaps for winter, haven't installed the yet but they work kinda well as mousepads too...

Post by **jtbo** » 06 Nov 2006 07:56 pm

And I thought I'm weird as I temporarily used old 360 front spring to fix my office chair

Nah, looks quite nice actually, but isn't it bit too sticky?

Post by **Fuse** » 06 Nov 2006 07:58 pm

Those are Motonet mudflaps so those are more like elastic plastic than rubber. Though surface could be smoother...

Post by **jtbo** » 06 Nov 2006 08:31 pm

Hmm, some hard plastic and glue, hmm, hmm

Or why not get some carbon fibre

http://www.verkosta.fi/product_info.php ... 0tnr1630e6

Post by **Duvel78** » 08 Nov 2006 12:39 am

Fuse wrote:I bought new flaps for winter, haven't installed the yet but they work kinda well as mousepads too...

LOL, excellent!

jtbo wrote:And I thought I'm weird as I temporarily used old 360 front spring to fix my office chair

Why don't you use a whole 340/360 seat? My office chair is a GLT seat

Post by **classicswede** » 08 Nov 2006 08:13 pm

Nice.

fist thing that came to my my mind when I saw the title was a ad from the local paper

Wanted

Small boy - must be flexable and willing to travel

Post by **Chris_C** » 09 Nov 2006 07:49 pm

Duvel78 wrote:Why don't you use a whole 340/360 seat? My office chair is a GLT seat

Everyones joining in

300 swively chairs are superb!

Post by **jtbo** » 09 Nov 2006 08:01 pm

Duvel78 wrote:
Fuse wrote:I bought new flaps for winter, haven't installed the yet but they work kinda well as mousepads too...
LOL, excellent!

jtbo wrote:And I thought I'm weird as I temporarily used old 360 front spring to fix my office chair
Why don't you use a whole 340/360 seat? My office chair is a GLT seat

That would require some welding and metal works and those are impossible, if I could make such jobs then I would have one for sure

Post by MJ » 09 Nov 2006 08:21 pm

Not nesseseraly. The seat is only fixed to the car with 4 Bolts (with allen key heads), It's quite scary that that's all that holds you down. Office seats are often held with bolts. If so, you only need a sheet of wood. Bolt it to the office seat base, and then the Volvo seat to it

The only problem is that the car seats are quite high, so you'll need the seat base to be fairly low if you don't want to end up too high

Post by **Chris_C** » 10 Nov 2006 01:21 am

MJ's right... he must have been researching whilst the rest of us were driving

Both of my swivel chairs I've made by taking the forward adjustment subframe off, bolting the two runners to a piece of board, and then bolting a knackered chair base to the board as well. Usually the chair base is angled, as are the seat runners, so a bit of trial and error is required, and as MJ says, the seat is a lot thicker than a normal chair, so you have to run at the lowest setting, but both mine worked just right.