shorn, just bustin em, last night i purchased a sewing machine for doing heavy material leather,canvas,vinyl,etc so i can make such projects on my own. and i do all the general sewing in my family with my regular machine. a friend just had a new zipper put into his bug eye tonneau cover and it cost him $125.00 thats about 1/2 the price of the machine, two summers ago a guy gave me a price of $400.00 to fix the "bimi" cover for my boat when i could buy a new one for $180.00, they charge a fortune for this kind of work and i really dig sewing. hay! this might turn into another business, ah what color would ya like? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/savewave.gif