Helmet issue..

[kieranyeh]

You may be a professional sprayer but you still have a lot to learn about paints, helmet paint is very specialised only the helmet manufacturer can use.

I'm not a professional sprayer, I spray paint bikes every week. I'm a professional bike restorer? but that means using spray paint. I haven't started using guns yet, but that's my future plan. In general I'm very good with paint, but I'm in no way a genious, I just read online what I need to know when it comes to this sort of thing.. I can only hope to be as good as you with my paint knowledge one day

Never put gloves etc in a helmet either.. everyone does but it isnt great

Whys that?

Not criticising btw. Just curious. Never heard that before!

Bacteria builds up in the lining off the surface of your gloves.
And yes, you should never spray a helmet unless you're using solventless/low reactive paints, the solvent in most paints, and especially panel wipe used beforehand, softens the resin matrix of the shell.

Yeah that's what I found out, something to do with the deterioration / softening of the hardened shell, it can happen but as most people said, not best to take the risk.

I'm too pro to crash, and if I do I'll make sure I don't hit my head in that case.

obviously joking

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nice one Jamie, gotta agree; pics!!

It's just aerosoled black. Looks sick, regardless of if I use it, great feature for my mantelpiece

There are so many rules surrounding helmets I can't help but get suspicious, yes "theres no point in taking the risk" blah blah, but at the end of the day I bought it second hand.. I used to work in bikehut and we had to throw out helmets once they were dropped.. how do I know this one hasn't been dropped? So you can understand why I'm still not that bothered that a chemical reaction that may or may not effect the film layer over the helmet may have taken place.

TBH, it's my new Karting helmet, I go enough to warrant getting one, and there's less risk in an indoor karting arena at 30mph.

The reason it was sold could well be because of someone being suspicious about the reliability of it, and yet I bought it..

I'm not the only one, theres over 1000 used helmets on ebay, and Steve got his at a car boot, £4 was the bargain of the century!

Edit: I have got a before picture: