NOT ME! Only the best for me, my friend. If it wasn't designed and made by
Felder Enterprises, it's Harbor Freight in my shop! LOL

Jim

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> sure, I bet the store bought ones are fine. But you how it is, you need to
> get something done and you grab a tool and modify it.
>
> cheers
>
> alistair
>
> On 2013-09-30, at 1:18 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>
> > HF sells a set of upholstery tools for under 6 dollars that will get the
> job done IF your plastic fasteners are not too rotten. I bought a set of
> the Bus Depot replacements and am more satisfied with those than anything I
> have found.
> >
> > Once upon a time I went to the dealership for a set and they said that
> the cost of those was so high that they were embarrassed to sell them, and
> they stocked a lower cost alternative (I mean, can you grasp the full
> implication of this?).
> >
> > Anyway, their "replacements" were OK, nothing you couldn't get at a well
> stocked FLAPS but in a light grey to match the interior of my 90.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > I found them hard to remove until I got smart and modified a putty knife
> to make a version of the commercially available tool. I ground a  slot in
> the end of the knife, large enough to fit around fastener, then the knife
> lodes between panel and tailgate and you can pop the fastener.
> >
> > Alistair
>
>