Tristar said:
You might be able to drill them, as long as you do it carefully. Otherwise you could get a leather punch. As for the helmet w/o the bolts, does it have the holes for them? I believe you can get replacement bolts from MSA.
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You might be able to drill them, as long as you do it carefully. Otherwise you could get a leather punch. As for the helmet w/o the bolts, does it have the holes for them? I believe you can get replacement bolts from MSA.
ryan81986 said:
No, the older (5A) helmets don't have holes for bolts. Some of them have very small diameter holes (less than 1/32" diameter).
ryan81986 said:
Would you use that on a leather as well, or might that damage the leather? I've got some residue on my N5A from when I replaced the tets.
So with the new year comes a new beginning for me. I am officially Sargent 40b at brandywine so I have to repaint my helmet here is a teaser
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This is my N5A that I have been using for over 15 years and was just forced to retire because we adopted the 10 year rule. It was replaced with a brand new N6A. Then my Ben 2 also now retired and my N5A next to my old 5A.
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Tristar said:
The old 5A had little gold pins that went threw the shield and bent over inside the helmet, then some went to a plastic screw and bolt like the old 880's
The number of years as a FF?
The number of CPR saves you've made?
The number of childbirths you've assisted in?
If you look it's the headlights an grille of my jeep I used to have Chevy emblems behind my shield well I don't drive a Chevy anymore I bought a jeep so I figured that it would work
Something to point out... You should get new bourkes. New lid color needs to have new bourkes burned up with it. And I know y'all burn enough down there.
I had a new set and new eagle but I used them on my wife's helmet
And finally complete with a new band and my old flashlight
And finally complete with a new band and my old flashlight
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mdlighting said:
Serious question: why even leave those bourkes on there in that state? They can't possibly serve any functional purpose at this point?
bwoodruff said:
It's a pride thing. A lot of that in PG. I saw that at both PG firehouses I visited. It was definitely a different atmosphere than I was used to, but I loved it. And if your wondering which ones, we visited 33's and my buddy works at 10's, so we did a ride along and spent the night.
those that are collectors that may be close enough to the fire stores retail location,they have a box of leather shields that appear to have been ordered and not picked up or returned,i was there last week and they have a clearance box full of about 100 shields and only asking a few bucks each for them
My New Yorker. I am going on 19 years. I think I had 4 helmets before this one. I bought this one new. It used to have a Captains shield on it. I gave that up
Has anyone ever seen green reflexite tets? I thought they existed but I can't find them anywhere. They make the shamrocks so the material exists.
Check on thefirestore.com or powercallsirens.com I made my own with regular scotch light I got from powercallsirens just measure and use a ruler for straight lines
This is my New Yorker. I had to repaint it yellow from the original black. A few years later I had to repaint it to red, kept the flag paint job on the bottom.
mdlighting said:
I know you can get them precut in scotchlite, but I'm not sure if you can get it in reflexite, like these tets:
The Jets one i made for a friend of mine. :weird:
jprleedy4680 said:
Ok, odd to say but the green is kind of "sexy" on a black helmet. It's different compared to other things so that's another +1
Got some stuff added to my helmet, will post pics as soon as I can.
