I decided to build up at least one seat that I can use for testing. Basically, I have a seat bottom and a seatback. I have to screw these to hinges. The hinges allow the seatback to fold forward so people can get in a out of the back seat. I’ve got a new style hinge. I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that new=a lot more work. The old style had a fixed upright position. Which means that you had to decide when you were building the seat. The new style lets you adjust it at anytime, just like a car seat.

Here’s the new style hinge.

Old style hinge.

But the problem is that I couldn’t get the seatback to fit the hinge. I tried and tried. I tried all sorts of different ways of getting it to fit. It just wouldn’t. Then I started looking at other peoples build sites. That’s when I discovered that nobody else have seat hinges like mine.

So I called the factory. They said I would have to send the seatbacks back down to Florida to be modified for use with the new seat hinges. 🙁