tutorial Bending Scout / Helmet visor Tutorial

[WilsonSith]

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

 

[BikerScout007]

Great tutorial!  I threw theirs away and bought a Hobart's.  But this is great advice

[WilsonSith]

7 minutes ago, BikerScout007 said:

Great tutorial!  I threw theirs away and bought a Hobart's.  But this is great advice

hahaha thanks buddy! Saw a few members breaking their visor so figured this might help ❤️ 

[troygordon2]

Is this visor Lexan?  I'm trying to get some welding visors glued into helmets today, and even the high temp glue sticks just aren't doing the trick.  I warped them with my heat gun to fit, but the glue isn't catching.  What are you using that sticks?

[WilsonSith]

5 hours ago, troygordon2 said:

Is this visor Lexan?  I'm trying to get some welding visors glued into helmets today, and even the high temp glue sticks just aren't doing the trick.  I warped them with my heat gun to fit, but the glue isn't catching.  What are you using that sticks?

Hi @troygordon2

 

I believe the visor's Acrylic or you might know it as "Plexiglas". I would say try to stray away from "hot glue/high temp glue" from experience although easy to use, it usually won't hold in the long run. 

Look into getting E6000 glue / Goop. Although they take at least 8 hours to fully cure, once it's on it's just there until you forcefully yank it out (and you do require a bit of force to do that). 

While it cure do not shift it around leave it over night, head to bed and it would be ready the very nice day for you to take it for a spin. 

PS: "A little more goes a long way" don't scrimp on the E6000

 

 

[WilsonSith]

@troygordon2, 

 

Also a heads up if u happen get excess E6000 on the visor, fear not, just clean it up with a little "Thinner/ acetone" I prefer thinner as it's not as strong. 

 

All the best buddy