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Evan Marks
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 1652
Location: NYC6/23/13 7:42 PM |
helmet painting
Done it yourself? Paid someone to do it?
What works, what doesn't?
Ahh, you know I live in an apartment, right? Indoor rattlecans definitely won't work. Brushes, mmmmaybe.
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH6/24/13 5:20 AM |
Not generally a good idea
The solvents in most paints will degrade Styrofoam and painting voids any warranty on the helmet. Every helmet I've owned has has warnings against painting in the instructions.
I do like to customize my helmets somewhat, but I do it with pinstriping tape, which cannot cause any problems. Its cheap, easy to use, comes in lots of colors and you can always peel it off and/or change it if you don't like the outcome. You can create effects from subtle highlights to gaudy and flashy.
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henoch
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 1690
6/24/13 9:23 AM |
Yeah I always wondered about that myself, always see guys on motorcycles with these cool paint jobs on their helmets
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KerryIrons
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 3236
Location: Midland, MI6/24/13 6:53 PM |
Safe painting
I think Troy Lee Designs (?) used to pain bike helmets - mostly for downhill MTB types. Because different paints are compatible with different plastics you need to know what you are doing. Obviously those of us who have posted so far do not, except to advise that this is not a cliff you should jump off without some knowledge of what you are doing. Rattle cans seems like a basically bad idea.
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH6/25/13 4:53 AM |
Downhill helmets...
...generally have much more in common with motorcycle helmets than they do with road helmets. They have much thicker shells made of different materials. That said, I'll bet that even a Troy Lee paint job voids the warranty on a helmet, if that matters to you.
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