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Glue for padding inside helmet
My son's BMX-style helmet came with big piece of flat foam right in the
top center, sort of flower petal shaped. It's come unglued. What sort of glue would work to reattach it? I'd love try what I use for sewups, which is 3M Fasttack, but don't know if that would work or if it would eat up either surface. Thanks - this is just one of those things where I figure experimenting could ruin the helmet so I figured I'd ask before I tried anything. -S- |
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Glue for padding inside helmet
Steve Freides wrote: My son's BMX-style helmet came with big piece of flat foam right in the top center, sort of flower petal shaped. It's come unglued. What sort of glue would work to reattach it? I'd love try what I use for sewups, which is 3M Fasttack, but don't know if that would work or if it would eat up either surface. Thanks - this is just one of those things where I figure experimenting could ruin the helmet so I figured I'd ask before I tried anything. -S- I've fixed mine with 3M double sided tape. They do a super-strong version, but I just used the lightweight stuff from the office supply shop, worked fine. hth, bookieb. |
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Double sided tape or foam tape. Will work like a charm. D'ohBoy |
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:17:42 -0400, "Steve Freides"
wrote: My son's BMX-style helmet came with big piece of flat foam right in the top center, sort of flower petal shaped. It's come unglued. What sort of glue would work to reattach it? I'd love try what I use for sewups, which is 3M Fasttack, but don't know if that would work or if it would eat up either surface. Thanks - this is just one of those things where I figure experimenting could ruin the helmet so I figured I'd ask before I tried anything. I'd try a small dab of FastTack on a noncritical surface inside the helmet; if the foam doesn't collapse, you're probably safe using that glue on the rest. On the other hand, I've found that I often have better results by replacing such dedicated die-cut foam pads using strips of sticky-back weatherstripping from the hardware store; I just put dots of it inside the helmet instead of strips, and increase the air flow in the process. -- Typoes are a feature, not a bug. Some gardening required to reply via email. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. |
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Thanks, everyone. We'll give 2-sided tape a try first.
-S- "Steve Freides" wrote in message ... My son's BMX-style helmet came with big piece of flat foam right in the top center, sort of flower petal shaped. It's come unglued. What sort of glue would work to reattach it? I'd love try what I use for sewups, which is 3M Fasttack, but don't know if that would work or if it would eat up either surface. Thanks - this is just one of those things where I figure experimenting could ruin the helmet so I figured I'd ask before I tried anything. -S- |
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On 25 Apr 2006 07:03:57 -0700, "D'ohBoy" wrote:
snip q: attaching padding to helmet Double sided tape or foam tape. Will work like a charm. D'ohBoy Before choosing an adhesive, you will do well to wait for JB's history of the development of helmet glue. ------------------------------- John Dacey Business Cycles, Miami, Florida Since 1983 Comprehensive catalogue of track equipment: online since 1996 http://www.businesscycles.com ------------------------------- |
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John Dacey wrote: On 25 Apr 2006 07:03:57 -0700, "D'ohBoy" wrote: snip q: attaching padding to helmet Double sided tape or foam tape. Will work like a charm. D'ohBoy Before choosing an adhesive, you will do well to wait for JB's history of the development of helmet glue. ......"In the beginning, riders used track glue to afix the pads, which were made of pieces of fatally wounded silk sew-ups, to the inside of their hand carved, balsa wood helmet shells"..... |
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"Steve Freides" wrote in message
... My son's BMX-style helmet came with big piece of flat foam right in the top center, sort of flower petal shaped. It's come unglued. What sort of glue would work to reattach it? I'd love try what I use for sewups, which is 3M Fasttack, but don't know if that would work or if it would eat up either surface. Thanks - this is just one of those things where I figure experimenting could ruin the helmet so I figured I'd ask before I tried anything. -S- I used GOOP adhesive to good effect for most all things like this. It is something like silicon rubber like stuff. |
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