Thanks for that. I plan on going to a shop at some point. A catastrophic
injury in August has left me temporarily limited on mobility. And I try not
to subject my wife to my side-trip whims. She's been a soldier though.
I did a high quality scan of the felt fabric, and when I have a chance it
will be imported into vector graphics software and I will do a best-effort
trace. At some point I will get a laser cutter for such things but, as
usual, there is a stack of unrelated projects calling for it. But it is
being tugged along with various other projects in the pipeline.
Thanks for providing your link, it shows how easy it is to make mock
copies.
The fabric example I currently have came from a model T that spent many
years in an industrial setting. The fabric has a really strong odor of
industrial solvents and grease. But the fabric is prestine after pulling the
dander off with scotch tape.
Daniel
sysop | Air & Wave BBS
finger | [email protected]
On Sat, 13 Dec 2025, Brian K. White wrote:
On 12/10/25 13:54, [email protected] wrote:
I have a few fabric sheets that i removed while cleaning/refurbing my model
t's. in the interest of replacement, what exactly is this material? i have
a feeling it should be available at a fabric shop. seems to be some generic
sort of fiberglass.
Daniel
sysop | Air & Wave BBS
finger | [email protected]
I re-created the fabric for a PC=8300 a couple years ago.
It's just generically called "non-woven fabric".
Basically almost any place that sells fabric probably has it.
I got some at a local jo-anns or michaels or walmart etc, possibly hobby
lobby. I don't remember which but the first place I tried had it so that
suggests it doesn't matter much, it's not super rare. It wasn't even a
dedicated fabric shop like jo-anns, just something like michaels that has a
fabric department in back. Might have even been a target or walmart.
It's hard to find the right stuff just from pictures on-line. I just went in
person and looked at a few things and they had something that was practically
identical.
I drew up a stencil in xfig and traced it with an xacto knife to cut the
sheet. I don't think it directly helps you with any other model but here it
is anyway.
http://tandy.wiki/NEC:PC-8300:keyboard_fabric
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bkw
