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Old 1st July 2018, 09:44   #1
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Default Sagging Headlining - Anyone tried Drawing Pins? on a sa

The headliner on my 75 has had it as about 2/3rds of it is now sagging. Just wondered if anyone had tried pinning a headling with drawing pins as I wasn't sure if the backing board would be thick enough or if the pins would hold?. Was thinking of using the type with coloured heads and then spraying them a light grey colour.
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Old 1st July 2018, 10:08   #2
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Use normal ss pins with small heads. Fit them at an angle, and you are fine. No need to paint.
Works a treat. Start in the middle and work towards the edges.
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Use normal ss pins with small heads. Fit them at an angle, and you are fine. No need to paint.
Works a treat. Start in the middle and work towards the edges.

Do you mean dress making pins and do you have a photo of a headling done like this?



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Yes, dress making pins. You press them in fully, sideways and only the head remains, holding the cloth. Plan a nice pattern, and it looks fine!
I think I actually posted a couple of pics, but I can't seem to find them?


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Remove it and re trim with new cloth, it’s not that difficult to do.

I’ve just re trimmed mine along with the door cards with new cloth.
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I think re-trimming can be difficult. You need to know what you are doing, use the right glue and have the right type of cloth.

The reason I say that was an attempt I made some years ago, re trimming the lining on a classic Range Rover.
Although I had help from a professional, my result was not impressive, I suspect the cloth we could get was far too thick, and we had problems with each curvature, and there are quite a few!

But since we are on photos, why don't you post a couple of your results?
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Not totally unobtrusive, but effective nonetheless, these twist in type of pins may be of interest:

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Remove it and re trim with new cloth, it’s not that difficult to do.

I’ve just re trimmed mine along with the door cards with new cloth.
How does it look Jim - and how difficult is it to re-trim?
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You could barely notice it wasn’t the original. I’ve done this before twice on my SD1 Vitesse. I first used a second base liner from another car but I made a mistake by cutting the material short at the sun roof, then when I was doing my re build on the car using the original liner I removed trimmed it perfectly.
With the SD1 the base liner used to go floppy as well so I stiffened it up first using some excess 2K paint sprayed onto it then re trimmed it.

Basically you cut the material to oversize, lay it over the base trim then pull it back one half at a time then apply the spray adhesive to the open side, stick it down the repeat with the second half. I used a clean micro fibre cloth wrapped up in a roll to prevent pressure points when pressing the new cloth onto the liner. You also press the cloth into the grooves for sun blinds and around the interior light apertures.
Once the entire cloth has been stuck down neatly trim off around the outer edges leaving approx 3/4 inch all round then with careful application of glue stick this “border” down to form a neat finished edge.
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A syringe with some super glue in it sorted a saggy headliner in my thunderbird a few years ago.
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