Angle grinder?

I've just got hold of a replacement seat for my VFR to see if I could
lower the bikes seat height a little and thought you might be
interested in how it turned out....

I removed all the staples holding the cover to the plastic base frame,
then set about it first with a sharpened up bread knife. This worked,
but it was rather inclined to take out uncontrolled chunks of the foam.

I then thought I would see if a small angle grinder might be more
successful, possibly giving better control of the operation. It worked
much better. Drawing the grinders disk backwards from the sponge
produced a perfectly smooth surface and took the material off in a very
controlled way.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Harry Bloomfield belched forth and ejected the
following:

Now all you need to do is "cut it off about here"(tm)

Before:
www.whingingcourier.dsl.pipex.com/05Whinging_Courier.JPG

After:
www.whingingcourier.dsl.pipex.com/mybike-ratbikereview2004.jpg

Welcome to the dark side.

 

Leccy carving knife works well too.
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An angle grinder is the modern day equivalent of the Swiss Army pen knife.

 

****-in-ell

I'd rather forgotton how it looked before.

P.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, belched forth and ejected the following:

I did have a laugh to myself when I clicked the links to test if they
worked.