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Fixing my hump mat seams without sewing ….how to

ramdough

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All, just posting what I did to fix my seams on my rubber jump mat. The threads were snapping loose and the seams were starting to split. I asked a local boat cover maker to sew the seams back, but her machine was not big enough to fit under, so she gave free advice and some vinyl seam tape (non adhesive).

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I masked off the width of my tape and applied the adhesive to the mat seams and the tape (T=0 minutes).

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at T=4 minutes I pulled the masking tape.

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at T=10 minutes I used a low power heat gun to warm up an inch of the tape and an inch of the mat adhesives. Then stuck the two together. The glue was barely no longer tacky…. Heat made them sticky again but only the small section that I heated. This allowed me to handle the tape as we went inch by inch.

I then, with my friends Help heated and appear the tape inch by inch.

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on a side note, I painted my vinyl with Duplicolor and hope the glue sticks. I plan to paint Duplicolor over the seams later.
 
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ramdough

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Great job! When I pull my seats I'm going to plan to do this. My dogs have torn some of the stitching. Any links for the seam tape? I'll google.....
“Stamoid silver 3/4" bias binding. Source at Sailrite.com or anywhere on the web”

Above is the response I got from the company.

I used silver color because I am painting my hump grey.


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Final product painted. Still wet in picture. Will D2314D88-6CB5-4EBE-A903-1E7361A8842E.jpeg tonight.

I think it looked better with two colors. I should have skipped using a sharpie, then I would have left it unpainted. I had some glue on the pin dots, so I could not clean them off.
 
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