How to attach a PR seat

[SteveBorland]

Some time ago I had a request to show how I attached a PR seat to my Commando.
Here's a couple of pictures showing how I uses the standard seat "ears", available from RGM. I simple pop-rivetted them to the PR seat base (best to put some metal reinforcement in to prevent the seat base from cracking).
To put the seat on, I lift the rear of the tank up a bit, push the front mounting plates in uderthe tank and then wiggle the ears (on the seat that is!) to go over the standard studs.

This gives a positive location and works well. The only disadvantage is that the sear can end up a bit higher then normal.

 

[kommando]

This is a similar scheme but on the RGM Manx seat with 6mm threaded inserts moulded into the fibreglass, the ears are the same RGM ones they have in stainless. The white plastic is a protective covering on 3mm thick alloy plate.

By adding extra holes for the 6mm Allen's you can use it with different tanks, this is drilled for an Interpol tank.

 

[SteveBorland]

This is a similar scheme but on the RGM Manx seat with 6mm threaded inserts moulded into the fibreglass, the ears are the same RGM ones they have in stainless. The white plastic is a protective covering on 3mm thick alloy plate.

By adding extra holes for the 6mm Allen's you can use it with different tanks, this is drilled for an Interpol tank.

Much neater than my hack job but doesn't this give a much higher seat?

 

[kommando]

but doesn't this give a much higher seat?

In my case it needed to be higher, hence the alloy tubular spacers under the RGM ears where the bolts are, take those out and it would be lower but with this seat the ears would not reach the shock mount bolts as the rear rail gets in the way. The seat has a deeper rim hence the need for the spacers,