This was a bigger mess than I thought

I used a dremel with a large abrasive cutting wheel to cut the bottom laminate. I removed about a 40" section, the whole 18" width of the seat. I wanted to make it smaller, but the core was wet everywhere I went. I'm not in the mood to replace the entire seat, so I'll do this big section under the traveler and a smaller section on the port side and call it done. Although wet, the core was NOT easy to remove at all!! I thought I was going to re-use the skin - NOT - it was totally destroyed in the removal because the core was stuck so well to it. The only reason I did this repair was because it was under the traveler and the seat flexed under foot. Even when wet, the Klegecell core holds up pretty good. Oh, and the garbage bag full full of wet core weighs a ton!



This is what it looks like when it comes out.