Deuce seat covers

[Jeepsinker]

You might be able to buy it from a chemical company.

 

[Scar59]

I remember liking to too. Only deal now is if I go and just touch it in the deuce, I smell like it and the wife doesn't like it. Which therein lies the source of the problem!!!!

Just got a couple yards of NOS canvas from Chief919, opened the box, there's that smell, I like it. Wife walks in the kitchen and states, "OMG, what is that smell?" I say, "It's my new canvas for my seats, don't it smell great?" Boxwas immediately relocated to garage/shop or I wasn't getting dinner.

 

[rustystud]

Just got a couple yards of NOS canvas from Chief919, opened the box, there's that smell, I like it. Wife walks in the kitchen and states, "OMG, what is that smell?" I say, "It's my new canvas for my seats, don't it smell great?" Boxwas immediately relocated to garage/shop or I wasn't getting dinner.

It must be a universal thing that women hate this smell while men seem to like it. Go figure !

 

[Jeepsinker]

You guys should take your wives camping in a GP small... force them to embrace the stench... you know, like we do with our farts..

 

[Scar59]

-Another great memory; Growing up in the 60's, my father had a small GP tent. He would put it up each summer in the yard, I loved that tent, my mother and sisters would not go near or in it. It was all mine. Still have the center pole to that tent.

 

[Stranger]

You might be able to buy it from a chemical company.

Yes, in fact you can. However, most places won't have it listed under Quarpel (Quartermasters Repellant). Look for 1-(stearamidomethyl)pyridinium chloride. It bonds with cellulose (cotton) to a significant extent.

Keep in mind that its reaction with cellulose creates hydrochloric acid, so you would have to treat the fabric with a buffer like sodium acetate also.

The smell is from it decomposition and release of pyridine. Pyridine smells.... gross. It will make you sick to your stomach after a bit.

 

[Jeepsinker]

So, your saying that smell we all love is slowly killing us then?

 

[Stranger]

So, your saying that smell we all love is slowly killing us then?

Only if you are eating the treated canvas. In that eventuality, I suspect pyridine poisoning would be the least of your problems. The amounts being given off by treated canvas are not harmful, they just have a strong odor.

 

[rustystud]

Yes, in fact you can. However, most places won't have it listed under Quarpel (Quartermasters Repellant). Look for 1-(stearamidomethyl)pyridinium chloride. It bonds with cellulose (cotton) to a significant extent.

Keep in mind that its reaction with cellulose creates hydrochloric acid, so you would have to treat the fabric with a buffer like sodium acetate also.

The smell is from it decomposition and release of pyridine. Pyridine smells.... gross. It will make you sick to your stomach after a bit.

So you would first treat the fabric with this sodium acetate then apply the Quarpel, is that correct ?

 

[Stranger]

So you would first treat the fabric with this sodium acetate then apply the Quarpel, is that correct ?

Ideally, you would have the sodium acetate buffer in solution with the pyridinium chloride salt. They are both water soluble.

You would take your fabric, dip it in the solution of pyridinium chloride and acetate buffer, remove the excess liquid (squeeze it out with a set of rollers), dry it, and perform whatever curing processes were required to give you the desired performance.

Its not too different from dying fabric a particular color.

 

[saddamsnightmare]

December 11th, 2015.


Considering how bad the average deuce cab leaks, I'd take the quarpel anyday. But if you want, buy the correct hevy cover canvas from WeeBee Webbing or Beechwood Canvas, and have your local truck top maker sew you up some new ones and set the old ones aside as spares. You could also have them install heavier foam padding in the seats if you want a little more cushion for your tushin'

 

[CommoChief]

Speaking of Deuce seat covers, what is the easiest way to replace the cushion on the back of the Deuce passenger seat? I have replace the canvas cover but can not get the cushion/rod frame back into the seat frame.