Painted my helmet...

[Beancooker]

Rich, ya asked for pics...

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[Tampa G35 Sedan 6MT]

very nice!

Um... what is the helmet for???

Oh I know.... The Wifes Driving



Hey but I understand 100%

DJ

[SVTCOBRA]

BeanerVery nice!!!

Maybe I've watched too much OCC, but I immediately thought that blue flames on it would look great!!!!

OR, the MA in me thinks a dragon - all black!!! With red eyes and fire!!

I know you wanted to keep it simple tho

Time to crank up the grill and grab a beer!!!

[zozoka1212]

Beaner,

Looking good. Now lets see with stickers and everything. You did a hell of a good job with painting.

zozo

[gwoods]

green goblin?

Cool, we have the same helmet! Mine is a burgundy red and I have a Red Simpson Fire jacket too.

[Beancooker]

Well, there was a sad turn of events spawned by impatience.

I started to sand with 60 grit. After an hour, I had barely broken through the candy color. So I went to Home Depot, and bought a "Rapid Strip" wheel for the angle grinder. (Cringes right?)

Being very careful, I start to strip the bottom 8 layers of paint that are left. All is going well, and it's stripping it right through the paint, and no deeper than the primer.

Then I notice styrofoam in the primer? At that point I realized that I stripped through all the paint, through the primer, into the fiberglass/Kevlar, and into the protective layer of foam.

Yes, I am a retarded window licker.

Cost of helmet; $120. Cost of paint and supplies; $35.

Cost of helmet that I originally wanted, that I was afraid to buy because the wife would be pissed at me spending money; $170.

Cost of replacement helmet that wife bought me; $170.

Ironic, isn't it.

To Mia for hooking me up with an awesome helmet. Normally $239. but they hadn't sold well, so they were discounted 30%

[gwoods]

rapid strip in an angle grinder!!

At least you didn't try a chemical paint stripper

[snwbrdr435]

So you ended up getting a different helmet, HJC's fit my head weird but other then that no complaints at all they are pretty good for the price.

[Jacko3]

Beano:

That helmet looks nice.

[rn79870]

green goblin?

Cool, we have the same helmet! Mine is a burgundy red and I have a Red Simpson Fire jacket too.

I didn't know they came in red.

[gwoods]

[zozoka1212]

Oh man,

That sucks. At least your wife was cool about it . Hug her tiht for it.

zozo

[Raylo]

Hug her what????

zozo you pig

[Tampa G35 Sedan 6MT]

I thought this was a G rated forum

I guess that statement was

zozo... don't you ever touch Gwood's sugga mama like that again!

Hey but i have one question for you was it or



DJ

[zozoka1212]

Hahaha

OK OK now I am officially retarded.

I don't know what I said there but sure looks like something

Hug her tiht for it.

zozo

I think it was going to Beener since his wife was cool about beanors screw up and it should of been typed for "tight" not tiht. Geee I missed a G.

Man that is just WRONG.

What a retard I am.



zozo

[G_whizz]

Oh man,

That sucks. At least your wife was cool about it . Hug her tiht for it.

zozo

Are you kidding...Beans wifey is way cool...she's ALWAYS buying him things!

Hey Bean...still got that state of the art vaccuum??

[Beancooker]

No, the vacuum was taken back, and returned, a few days after she bought it. It was 1/3 of the down payment on the G35.

Just so you G guys can have a great laugh here is the vacuum thread;

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