Everything you wanted to know about Visors...

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Bingo! I just heated mine up, layed it into the helmet and pressed it so that it formed to the correct curve. If I screwed up, I just threw it back into the oven again.
 
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Baking the visor

I've been reading old posts on molding the visor, and I haven't come to any one temperature or time. How long should you put it in the oven, and how hot?
 
I've never baked a visor (mmmmmmm...baked visor), but I'd recommend boiling over oven-heating. The effectiveness of the boiling may depend on the compostion of the visor, but I'm pretty sure it won't melt.

I think you always run the risk of melting the visor in the oven at the least or setting your house on fire at the worst.
 
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uhh how noticible is the green tint? cuz im planning on having my helmet be red

The Purity Knight
 
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Purity Knight wrote:uhh how noticible is the green tint? cuz im planning on having my helmet be red

The Purity Knight

Dark green will work just fine...in fact the ESB helmet (film helmet)used a dark green tint face shield.
 
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VISOR SOURCE (my dirty little secret)

Hey folks,
Stop paying $20-$25 for your visors. Here's a link to
http://www.omarksafety.com

And more specifically to their $6 tinted green visors!
http://www.omarksafety.com/category.cfm?acatid=45&aprodid=272

I ordered four from them. They work great. They're thick enough to last and quite durable. They're also thin enough to be easily bent to your helmet's shape. And the best part? You can use the extra 'throwaway' from the sides of the full visor to make accurate flat stormtrooper lenses!

Hope this helps,
Phil
 
At lowe's they have very heavy clear faceshields. They're very thick and difficult to cut, they also don't conform to different helmet shapes well. Fortunately all was not lost as it came with a nice hard hat. I removed the liner and installed that instead into my helmet :)

Phil
 
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I've been scoring them with an x-acto knife and bend-snapping them. Not the most accurate method, but it works.
 
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Visor width measurements

I was wondering if someone could tell me the widths of the visor at points A and B on a Don Post '97, I got it with the visor already cut out and I am not sure how wide it should be.

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Thanks.
 
The width of those A and B points on the DP 97 are 2 1/8" or 54mm.
 
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I was curious as to what everyone used for their visors ( kinda like the AREA thread) I bought one from Swfladoug on ebay, if anyone knows him.. I wouldn't recommend him. I got it a few days ago, and it looked nice, 1/8 inch plexi, and when I ordered it, I asked if it would fit a DP 95. He said it would, as he moled it to fit his. Well, this wasn't true. At the top of the visor, where the forhead curves, it's flat, not good. And I broke it, but that was my fault. :p I was wondering, if you used a visor for welding, are you happy with it? Or if you used plexi, how did you mold it? And has anyone bought a visor from RA, and if so, how well did it fit? The questions I have, I haven't found previous threads, so, any help would be appreciated.

Oh yeah and, Happy Birthday to me!
 
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I used plexi for my visor. To shape it, I turned a burner on my stove to high, and held the plexi over it bending it as I noticed it softening up. Big note though--WEAR OVEN MITTS!!! Not only does the plexi get real hot, there's that whole burner on high thing.
 
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I also used Plexi. We have a shrink wrapping area in the backroom at work so I just used the heat gun to soften up the plastic. Even in that case gloves were needed ;) Basically you just need to find a way to soften the plexi with heat and then stick it inside the helmet (or however you're gonna do it) and press it flat. In my experiance, it will cool off and solidify pretty quickly afterward, holding its shape. Be extra careful not to force it into a bend when it's not soft because it *will* snap, heh. (Let's just say my first visor try was "battle damaged" =p)
 
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Thanks for the help guys, I actually just finished putting in my green welding visor, and I actually like it omre than the 1/8' plexi.
 
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Cheap Visor Source I Found!

Originally posted by Sarge1nOnly:

I picked one up at a local welding shop, and promptly traced it back to the company!

www.rjsafety.com/EH38.html

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Faceshield only Dark Green HF4178-DRK....$4.25

I just got one of these today and think it'll work fine! It's big enough, dark enough, and has a good flex to it.

Good luck!

-Sarge

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Originally posted by MaxPlague:

Check your local yellow pages for welding supplies, that's how I got mine.

- MaxPlague
"There is no emoticon for what I feel right now."
"DEATH TO POP-UP WINDOW ADVERTISEMENTS!"
 
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Originally posted by Pantera1889:

I got mine through the Grainger catalog.I work at a Transmission shop and my parts man ordered it for me.I don't know if you have to have a customer # or what.I can try to find out tomorrow.
 
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Originally posted by bobafett1117:

i just mounted mine in the back with 6 screws worked beautifully then i hot glued it into place and sprayed some truck bed liner inside and its as sturdy as ever
 
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