"JMC" Grey Prolong 'S' Ti saddle restoration/renovation

[Peachy!]

Now that I've seen the possibility of swapping the skins on these saddles, if you decide to sell that there Pro-long separately, give me a shout as I'll definitely be interested

Ease your helm Spudly, I’ve not done it yet!

 

[Spudly]

Ease your helm Spudly, I’ve not done it yet!

I've got to prime the chap first though haven't I

 

[Peachy!]

Right, had a play during lunch.
The two cromo’s have had deep clean and I’ve skinned the Ti.
No real problems, the old contact adhesive needed breaking down first with the occasional squirt of citrus adhesive cleaner as I carefully removed it trying to save as much of the old foam cushioning as possible.
Happy with the result.

 

[Spudly]

Looks like a yellow flite now that it's naked

 

[Peachy!]

As @Joe*Pro said, I'm watching
Brave work indeed @Peachy! so I'm keen to see how you get on.

Would also love to see/know if you could apply the clean up magic to perforated versions too!?
I don't have a spare to sacrifice, but I'd like at least my standard perf pro-long to look nicer as it's on a mint '94 Stumpjumper.
My (scruffier) '94 Ti Pro-long is attached to my FSR which is riding the eBay wave as we speak.

@Once A Hero Send me a PM with photos and we can have a chat.
Same goes for you @Spudly with the bent ti

 

[Peachy!]

Dialled the grey in ok. Took a few attempts as first batch was too blue, touch of yellow sorted that.
Please note, the photo below is just a colour test, I won’t be repairing any surfaces until I’ve re-applied the leather.

 

[Joe*Pro]

Looks like a yellow flite now that it's naked

Hope I haven’t been sold a fake, is someone out there covering old banana coloured flites and flogging them as premium JMC parts.

 

[Joe*Pro]

Right, had a play during lunch.
The two cromo’s have had deep clean and I’ve skinned the Ti.
No real problems, the old contact adhesive needed breaking down first with the occasional squirt of citrus adhesive cleaner as I carefully removed it trying to save as much of the old foam cushioning as possible.
Happy with the result.

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Brilliant work

 

[Joe*Pro]

Ease your helm Spudly, I’ve not done it yet!

They’ll all be lining up after this. Crappy old Ti saddles going for more than NOS cromo versions.

@Spudly you better get hold of one quick before everyone finds out.

 

[Joe*Pro]

Dialled the grey in ok. Took a few attempts as first batch was too blue, touch of yellow sorted that.
Please note, the photo below is just a colour test, I won’t be repairing any surfaces until I’ve re-applied the leather.

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And that’s the warn corner, even as a tester it’s disappeared on the face of it.