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hey,

anyone have experience working with suede or velvet? any tricks to it, or is it fairly simple if you know what you're doing?

 
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As far as I imagine it's easy enough to work with. Heavier, so you'll need sturdy scissors to cut it. Also less flexible, so it's harder to make it conform to sharp corners. It is a leather, so I guess water is not a good thing to spill on it? I would get the same material that the Civic Si/SiR uses for it's seats. That stuff is supposed to be more durable than suede. I plan on buying some for a shift boot, e-brake boot, and side panels. I want to know if spray adhesive works well on it? I also want to know if you can make it more flexible with heat?

 
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yah i wonder where you can get that material thats in the SiR....that'd be kickass

 
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Hey grey spray adhesive CAN work well. I bought a supposedly "strong" elmers spray adhesive for my eclipse. I was redoing the headliner inside. It held and looked awesome but after some intense heat all summer the rear center began sagging, then it went to hell from there. My advice if anything, 3M super 99 (sorry, not sure if its 99 or 66 - i think its 99 though), Home Depot carries it. If it's the right one it should go for about 15 bucks. Ask local custom audio places. They ALL recommended that 3M adhesive, its what they all use. Good luck to the both of you (ICEY, Grey)

 
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Yeah, I know... I was on a spray adhesive shopping trip once and I saw that Elmer's brand that you're talking about. It says on the can that it's not for automotive headliners if I remember correctly... [IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG] I bought some Super 77. I've been using that stuff to stick on this foam underlayment to the interior plastic (vinyl) panels. It works very well. I guess the Super 99 would be more tacky, but the 77 is good enough for me. I haven't had a problem with it yet.