Trim Filler - Seeking Recommendation

[Chad66Wick]

Hi All

This bad boy bracket for a 'phone (fitted by the previous owner!) has featured here before! Its now time to get rid ! Does anybody have any tried and tested excellent tips / recommendations how to fill back the holes --- preferably invisibly?

 

[AntStark]

Might be quicker, easier or cheaper to buy a new second hand trim. They are not extended leather versions so should be cheap
Edit.. £20 on eBay for a pair..sure someone on here may have some cheaper too.

 

[Brian James]

Not sure you can adequately disguise the holes by filler - however you could use some blind grommets of a suitable size - particularly the hardened plastic type.
Woolies might be able to help

Woolies – Trim, upholstery and fittings for Classic Cars

Fast same day despatch of door seals, rubbers, window channel, weatherstrip, edge trims, sound deadening and lots more. Providing excellent customer service for over 40 years.

www.woolies-trim.co.uk

 

[t-tony]

Why oh why do people do that?

Tony.

 

[colb]

Give Milliput epoxy putty to fill the holes, you could use a cocktail stick to scribe a surface pattern in it before it sets. I filled a small hole in one of my door pull handles with reasonable success.

Milliput - The epoxy putty with a thousand uses in modelling, DIY and industry

Milliput is one of the world's leading producers of epoxy putties. It is adhesive to most materials, tough and durable, and self hardening.

www.milliput.com

Picked mine up at the Hobbycraft store but also available on ebay last time I looked.

 

[Chad66Wick]

Might be quicker, easier or cheaper to buy a new second hand trim. They are not extended leather versions so should be cheap
Edit.. £20 on eBay for a pair..sure someone on here may have some cheaper too.

Thanks AntStark --- that might well be the end solution! I hadn't realized a replacement could be sourced so easily and cheaply. However, in the first instance the Womble in me is wanting to see if the boomerang can be fixed rather then sent to the landfill. My man math's says that'll be my carbon offsetting for a month

 

[Chad66Wick]

Give Milliput epoxy putty to fill the holes, you could use a cocktail stick to scribe a surface pattern in it before it sets. I filled a small hole in one of my door pull handles with reasonable success.

Milliput - The epoxy putty with a thousand uses in modelling, DIY and industry

Milliput is one of the world's leading producers of epoxy putties. It is adhesive to most materials, tough and durable, and self hardening.

www.milliput.com

Picked mine up at the Hobbycraft store but also available on ebay last time I looked.

Thanks Colb, will give that a go.....

 

[bertiejaffa]

furniture clinic have fillers and dye