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Anyone have experience recovering a seat?

I have a good size tear in my seat cover and have recently purchased a new seat cover from http://www.motorcycleseatcovers.com/.  It came in the mail today.

The instructions that came with it say that I should either do it on a very warm day, or do it with a heat lamp overhead.

I don't own a heat lamp, and there won't be a very warm day up here in Canada anytime soon.  Do I need to wait, or is there another way to get it warm enough to work with properly?

Is this something that I should really go to an upholstery shop to have done?
1981 CB750K with 900 cams
90K KM's, rebuilt head, rebuilt carbs, upgraded valve stem seals

My wife's recipe website that I'm trying to help promote: Strawberries for supper. Yes, I am a lucky man.

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It's not hard to install. I use a heat gun. They are really cheap, and, you will be surprised how handy it can be. I use mine a lot.
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1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
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1981 KZ 750 LTD
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Or a hair dryer.You can do it.
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the heat will make the material expand and stretch easier, so it will contract tight onto the pan after you apply it, thats all. I bet a hairdryer would work fine.
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I use a hair dryer to heat up cover,heat gun gets to hot and it held in one area will damage vynil. I cover the  foam with plastic bag so cover wil stretch, and pull tighter when pulling over hold down spikes.

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So you just leave the plastic bags there under the seat?

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I use a hair dryer to heat up cover,heat gun gets to hot and it held in one area will damage vynil. I cover the  foam with plastic bag so cover wil stretch, and pull tighter when pulling over hold down spikes.

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Sure sounds like it. Pretty slickidea.
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Life is not about the number of breaths, you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
I don't have an anger problem. I have an idiot problem. Hank Hill
Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
No fire? No explosions? So whats the point of your story?
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
We all got problems. Ksharp
I like vintage bikes because they take me away from the clutter of technology that I work with everyday and back to a simpler time of mechanical elegance and simplicity.. "ninadm"
Darkwing Duck: The worst part of public transportation is the Public.
"That is awesome shit there" Re-Run
"Fear nothing, attack everything" Eric Berry
" Oh, you read that on the internet? Clearly it IS a massive problem. Of course it CAN’t be normal operation."

1976 CB 750-A X 2
1977 CB 750-A X 4
1977 CB 750-K
1976 CB 750 F
1981 CB 750
1966 Kawasaki SG 250
1981 KZ 750 LTD
1973 CB 350
1979 CM 185 Twinstar
1982 Honda XL 80
South of Eden (Kansas City MO)
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