Originally Posted by
McCreed
A good little trick when doing grill cloth, is get it neatly around the frame just shy of the tension you want/need then hit it with a heat gun around the edges.
You want a medium heat and not too close to the cloth. I recommend experimenting on some offcuts of cloth to find the right combination of heat & distance. IT WILL MELT if too hot, too close. You just want to "shrink" it a bit to impart tension.
Work the four edges first, then methodically work you r way into the middle.
By doing the heat gun trick you don't have to fight with the cloth so hard with trying simultaneously stretch it, hold it and staple it.
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