Spreader Tool

I wish I had found this tool earlier in my endeavors of replacing the slings in my patio chairs. I purchased my material elsewhere and they recommended the 66lbs/force of reversable wood clamps. I bought a pair and they worked fairly well but it was a challenge having to use additional clamps to keep the heavy duty clamps from popping free from the sling frames. Hours and hours spent on this process. I purchased this tool to finish the job and wish I had it from the beginning. The process of replacing sling fabric would have been much easier. I will probably never use this tool again but if I need it or if a friend needs it, I have the best tool for the job in my garage.

My husband and I decided we could replace our patio chair fabric…ordered the fabric and it was exactly what we wanted, however the fabric stretchers were not working very well for us until I saw this basic simple logical tool here and it was magic…the easiest way of completing the fabric replacement…I am still so relieved and happy how professional it looks! Highly worth the cost!

The tool worked great for me and was well worth the cost. I found that I needed to put a spring clamp on each end to keep the tool from slipping off the frame of the chair. With that addition I had no issues. The sling install would be impossible without a tool like this.

This spreader tool was instrumental in getting my new chair slings installed on my old chairs. I could not have done it without this tool.

Works but u gotta be careful . It can/does pop off. If the contact points were u shaped more , may be better but it does what it does as well as expected

Recovering our slings proved to be quite a project. We have a large patio set. The replacement fabric we got from Slingmasters was high quality and we are very pleased with the result. Installing requires both a large clamp and a special spreader tool. My large clamp worked for the parts of chairs that needed to be compressed, but I needed the custom spreader tool for other parts. I'm glad that I bought that custom tool from Slingmasters.

We would not have been able to complete our project without this tool.

USPS has had our package since May 9 in Phx and we still have not received it near Tucson on May 24. I have emailed asking for help or replacement

As someone else mentioned, this tool does not stay in place unless you have two clamps handy. I had a set of very tight slings and it felt like the tool was straining to do the job. It did work, however I doubt this thing would hold up for much more than 12 replacements!

Invaluable tool to have if you are replacing chair slings.

A great tool to have when reparing sling on chairs.

This tool has one major flaw. The angle iron pieces on each end are too long at 3/4". They will punch through your new sling when trying to spread the bars. I had to cut one side of each angle down to 3/8" so that it went only 1/2 way across the chair bars, ending before the sling track. After that the tool worked just fine. I ruined one of my new slings finding this out.