Hello Charles,
I removed the leather top from the Cinelli-Unicanitor saddle last night. It came off quite easily with very little glue residue. Kinda reminded me when I was a kid skinning a catfish (off topic).
Regards, Dave Martinez Fremont Ca
"C. Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com> wrote: Mike Kone wrote in response to Dave M.'s question:
Hi Dave,
I did this once - yes, I took an old scruffy old logo saddle and found an old logo plastic shell with the Unicanitor logo - Cool!
But!!!! - there was a problem. Lots of adhesive residue was hard to remove so it is not so simple a task. And I don't thing the shell is perfectly identical to the plastic only version - not the same holes. But I suppose if cleaned up the task might work.
Mike Kone Boulder CO
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I have a couple of these where the leather was removed. I notice a permanent change in texture where the leather was glued down; my guess would be that the solvents in the contact cement used at that time (old-style contact cement was serious stuff, as we all recall, I'm sure), altered the plastic beneath.
Might still be worth taking the leather off...but it's likely the saddle will never look like one that came without leather.
My two bits.
Charles Andrews SoCal
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