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Wrapping AVC RIG AW1033 Window Pils with fabric VBHQ Live!
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May 3, 2025
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hey everyone welcome back to the live stream today we are working on upholstering our window pills so that's
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what these guys are right here um we got these from ABC rig
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and yeah we're trying them out um two
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things I'm changing over to a different adhesive right now and I'll talk to you about that in just a second for
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upholstery I'm not sure if I like it or not um let me fix this camera really
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quick so I'm still here this camera I just need to there we
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go all right so that is the window pill itself
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I'm starting this process and I was going to film the second one but we're just going to jump into it we're going
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to do it live so you guys get to join me and see if uh uh if I mess up or
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not I don't think I will I'm pretty experienced in upholstery but this one
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is the complex one because you got a bunch of Curves there's different sizes on it stuff like that so um let me see
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if I can get you guys the best angle
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here I think that's pretty good all right
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so let's see
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here all right so this is the window pill um now I'm going to set this one to
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a to the side I'm going to grab the other one from inside the
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van and so this one's going to look kind of raggy raggedy because uh what I've done
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is this is basically I just had it taped into the
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van first thing right off the bat we need to make sure that we do some alignment
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marks on the top here and then we write top on it um then I'm actually going to do uh
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like a t here for top because there is a little bit of
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some these are not perfect so that one over there was shifted a little off center when they cut it out this one was
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actually the one that's it's pretty much perfect um yeah so I what I did and this is in a
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previous video but I taped this up to the window the awning window and then I went through and made sure that I
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uh I got this kind of Center where it needs to be I took a piece of
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metal um this e inch piece of aluminum here and I put it on top of this and
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then what that did is that's going to give me my offset for not only my fabric for but for little adjustability because
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on the top of the van right here this is where those uh bump out those beams that you're
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going to have to grind and cut off are so what I did is I put this here shove
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this up and then when I traced out my wall panel
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um I'll show you this too
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so when you trace out your wall panel like this you're able to trace from the
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back and then that's how you locate this hole on the van so that's all in a
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separate video it's in the live streams you might have to dig a little bit to find it um if you
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have if you want that specific video I can stop in a minute um but just let me know in the
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comments or the chat anyway you get this all situated and then you know where
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this is uh it's the orientation is what's is what's so
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important next step is this comes in two pieces so I did two alignment marks
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right here be careful not to rip the
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foam
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all right so right here I've got a little alignment
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mark and this is going to help you when you uh glue it together with the foam
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adhesive uh which we'll do in just a minute so let me get this
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realigned okay so get some alignment marks so when you purchase this this
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will be uh in two pieces so you're going to have the first piece this piece here
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is what mounts to the back of your
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panel so here's your wall panel so imagine this wood piece goes here cuz
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you're going to screw into this wood piece and that's what's going to hold it
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you're not going to screw into this lighter one that doesn't have that face piece of uh quarter inch
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plywood so those are the two pieces so they look like this when you get
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them uh on the website you've got the VW 1033 that's the vent window which is the
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half slider which is pictured here um so we use the
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a1033 which is the awning style they don't have a picture of it but you guys might have seen that in the
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van but anyway pretty much that wood frame is where you need to be
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um you need to make sure that you uh have that oriented to the the back P
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back face of your panel um um there we go and that's what
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it looks like glued together all right so we're going to take a stab at getting this
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thing put together
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here so we'll get to this one this is the this is the second
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side so we're just going to set this back in the
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van and then we're going to fast forward to
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this part so what I did is I I preut uh some upholstery for
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this um and this is just wide enough to kind of come over the edge about one
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inch CU we don't need to cover the whole entire thing um so this is just to come around
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the face and then the rest of the uh rest of it will be glued in there
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and I may even take uh like another piece when I've finished
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of a puler and just wrap around this seam uh you're not going to see it but I
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I want something to kind of hold that um it's just my my insurance
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policy all right what I've done here is I've gone around and I've got uh
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probably you know almost 10 in or 12 of excess
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material and I've just taped this around here to get my outer profile to make
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sure that I have enough material and then this is where I wanted
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to start making the video so I have this pulled down in the
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middle and then I want to overlap it about an inch now this is different than if you
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watch ABC rig's uh video so their install method is different um it's
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pretty close but mine is a little
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different um I just I don't want a big wrap of fabric in here I think I think
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we can achieve having the same uh layover on the top side where you're not going to see it and then the fact that
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this is going to roll over to the other side I think it's going to be a plenty amount of
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uh way to secure this so I'm just going to come in
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here make sure you guys can see and this is where I'm just going to cut my straight
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piece okay so this cut we're going to have
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we're going to spray this backside we'll take tape it off and then we'll put some
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more adhesive here and then this will lay over and then that'll be our the only
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seam you see um and of course that's after we actually go through and apply adhesive
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to this so now that we have that taken care
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of uh so I'm going to
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see
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I may take this piece of tape off I just wanted to know that that's my overlap
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piece all right so now we're just going to take all this off and I taped it to
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the wood part so I wouldn't you know possibly tear up the foam
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all right the t is the top so it's important the reason why is like
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I said see how this backsides off so this wasn't cut out
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correctly um but the inside is is right so that's all we care about but I've already taken into account that offset
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on my window
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so and if you guys have any questions feel free to
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ask
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now the roll that you get from Marathon you know the width is only a
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little under 5T so this one um this is where you want to make sure you don't
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waste fabric this one had to be cut out of a long long length so you can see how long this
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is um so if I had to measure this just give
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you a rough estimate so this
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is this piece is approximately 87
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in so 87 in long would be what you need to uh
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yeah so 43 and a half that should be 87 in
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right all right something I did off camera is I went ahead and I use this uh
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this new product so this is what we are we're
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testing here this is uh foam fast 74 and I told you guys that this uh was
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cheaper than the super 77 so that's not
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true it was 30 bucks on Amazon and Amazon has a picture of three
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cans uh so I just bought it thinking it was three cans um because the cans I usually have
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are 13 Oz and this is a almost 17 ounce can so anyway the photo was of three and
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I got one for 30 bucks and that's pretty expensive um the other ones these
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are I think of 13 to $17 uh it's still a lot for adhesive but
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I'll probably I I may go back to to using this
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um but the reason I like this is it's much more control the other one it fans out too much and
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there's too much overspray this is much more accurate you've got a low medium
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and high for your uh fan pattern I think is what it is so I still might go with
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this um we'll just have to see all right uh
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what we do we need to do is this is the top so we need to start at the top we don't don't need
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to start at the bottom because our we're going to hide it up at the top so we need to flip it over just like we had it
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earlier and then we're going to take our
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fabric um let's see I may need to move the camera back a little
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bit so we got to do two things at once um we need to get our spray board
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out
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so this you can see this is not sticky anymore make sure it's not sticky um
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it's still going to be a little bit but as long as it can't transfer to the fabric that's all you're that's all you really care
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about all right so that's my area that I I'm starting with this piece where the
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tape is
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um again don't have to be perfect on all this but having things to kind of lock you into a process is
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helpful and Van building whether you're doing it DIY or or
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not okay so now we're going to see we're going to do two things here one let's
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see if we get any more tips off
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this select spray pattern width by turning the tip hold the can 3 to 5
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inches away uniform coat spray both surfaces to be bonded
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allow adhesive to dry until aggressively
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tacky test for attacking this by touching the adhesive with your knuckle if the adhesive is tacky and does not
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transfer to your skin it is ready to bond so that's same thing I've told you
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guys in the other videos um you kind of just want to touch it and
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be able to pull away without uh the wet it's still being wet on your on your
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hand okay so here's our piece down here is where we're
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starting
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so I'm make a line right there in the center and so that's where I'm going to
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start my piece of
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fabric let's try our high
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setting okay let me just clean the tip
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off there we go excellent so you I don't know if you
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guys can see this but we've got a nice uh spray pattern
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here yeah I think I'm might be using this in the
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future
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is
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okay we're not going to do the back side because I want to be able to actually work with this a little
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bit um so let's spray this piece over
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here
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for
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so it's funny is uh in their videos this product sprays out orange and this one
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does not spray out orange and their sprays out a little bit wider of a pattern so I'm not sure if
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they change the the can or or
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what
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for
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for was experimenting with his other
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can
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for
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[Applause]
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for
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all right for this we might have to change our process for
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install cuz this is a I'm trying to get this whole thing in
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here with such a high tack
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Force
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for
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[Applause]
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okay so for this stuff it looks like I'm not GNA need to spray the foam
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um this says it is foam fast however it's uh kind of seeping
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into the foam more than I'd like now that's not
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affecting the finish this is still nice and smooth but um I'm going to spray on the
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fabric from now on not the foam even though it's called foam fast
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which is
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odd yeah so this stuff don't spray on the foam just spray on the fabric it's
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it's plenty of it's extremely
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tacky
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all right so we'll just give that a minute to attack
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up
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for
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you
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all right almost there we're still waiting for couple more parts of this to tack
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up
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all right see if we got any questions in the chat nope not right now so we can
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get this board out of the way for a minute
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move this closer to where you guys can
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see yes I'm I'm actually going to uh call up ABC I want to see uh
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this color foam usually this the pink XPS I'm wondering what um type of phone
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this is
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it's nice it's really light it's very very hard it might be
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XPS all right let's try one more time all right I think we're good so let's continue
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here now what's hard is you're gonna you'll drift in One Direction uh you'll tend to
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so I'm trying to bring it back over before we wrap around the other
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side and I'm not pushing it down I'm just being extremely light with
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it and then I'll even everything out when I get
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done
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[Applause]
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that
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okay all [Applause] right it's pretty good now what I'm
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going to do is I need to get something to I'm going to wipe off this
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uh get some denatured alcohol to wipe off off this little little bit of overspray I
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got
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and then when I'm happy with this seam I'm going to go around and I'll actually press it down
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cuz it's just it's just
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barely barely sitting on the foam right
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now I do like this stuff it's so very
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tacky but even though it says foam fast I would not spray it directly onto the
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foam so that's something we have learned
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today all right that seam looks amazing so now let's go in
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and let's just give a little bit of
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pressure yeah this seam looks great man that came out really
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good all right the second fun part here so that is
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um I'm actually going to use
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this now we're going to take these edges and then we're going to wrap them
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around so we need our big razor blade so super sharp razor blade
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and we're going to kind of start our way and work our way around um I'm going to do the important side
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first which is this side so this is the corner you'll you'll
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see you probably won't see this one but we're just going to do one step by step so start with the middle
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here
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actually I'm going to spray the
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wood
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all right give that just a minute
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y
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for
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the benefit is after we're done with this uh we'll be actually screwing this in so that'll make
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a it's also a good backup method for making sure that this thing is nice nice
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and
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tight so in these Corners we're just going to
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score score just a little spot to open this
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up and then we'll probably score two two more
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that should give us enough room right
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there so when you come around this corner don't all the way go all the way
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around uh kind of start it and then come over here start this
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one so we want to be even coming from here and here going in because if we go
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here we're going to be pulling it from the bottom and then we take away from whatever wiggle room we have uh
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later and then you can see here see how we have this Gap but we're not
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going to worry about that because we're upholstering the other panel and uh I'll show you how to fix
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this if you think you've messed up on your other panel and you need to uh fix
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it so if you messed up
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um what you can do is you can take one of these uh tabs I'm not going to do
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that CU this is a customer build but you can take one of these tabs cut it off that has that adhesive and
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then just fill it into this
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hole so that's that side um let's see I'll just do one just for
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an example so I've got a piece of fabric here and let's just act like messed
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up so all you're going to do is cut just a piece like
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this and kind of cut an angle to it you whatever it looks like to
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match uh what you kind of goofed
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on and then see here
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use our other adhesive really
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quick and so you have this little fix it piece and then all you're going to do is just take
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it and put it right in there that spot where um maybe it didn't cut right and
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you see you've you've covered up that that bigger
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Gap I sprayed my whole finger with that adhesive trying to get it
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off all
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right
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for
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if you notice I'm not wearing gloves because I like to actually feel if I've got adhesive on my fingers so I don't
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transfer to this um if you got gloves on sometimes you'll forget and then
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you'll put a big old spot of adhesive on your freshly upholstered
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surface
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for
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so as you see I'm going back to the the old method because
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uh yeah the foam doesn't like the Foam Fest for some for some weird
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reason I think you need the pink foam I think this uh whatever we're using here is
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not the right
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foam
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for
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is
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for
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the
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for
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these foam Corners are interesting because it's there's nothing really to
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support the the fabric when you pull it in so um I'm interested to see how this
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is going to fit on the uh how this isn't going to expand over the
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actual uh awning
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window
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all right that was the first one that took a lot longer than I expected but uh looks exactly how I want it to look the
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seam is almost invisible you guys can see
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that but yeah this uh came out perfect so this will go um we got our wood piece
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up here in the front so we'll drill into that and then this will be going around
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the window inside all right I'm going to go ahead and do the second one off camera um
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