Hi guys,
I was building my Kropserkel's helmet kit and realized some might have issues with getting their visor to bend correct.
Here's a step by step guide to ensure you bend it correctly without hurting urself or the ABS kit.
Step1: Use a heat gun / heat source. Preferably Heat gun.
Heat till acrylic acrylic starts to bend, if unsure keep heating. (do not put heat source at one point. Keep moving from left to right in a circular motion, this will allow even heating)
Step2: Lay a damp towel over your ABS kit. Why? This is to prevent the Hot visor from causing your abs to warp.
Step 3:lay visor over the towel at the cut out area.
Step 4: Wrap Towel over visor and apply pressure! Why you are doing this is to prevent your hands from being scorched by the Hot visor
Step 5: RUn Visor under tap or submerge under water and continue to apply pressure (at this stage you do this to allow the visor too cool off in the correct shape)
Step 6: check if visor is bent till the right consistancy.. If not remove from towel and repeat the steps from step1 all over again.
Finale: Once it's in the right shape, you are done! You now have a perfect visor formed to your helmet.
Hope this tutorial helped many individual from getting the right shape and not end up breaking your visor!
Cheers!
Regards,
Wilson