Review of Prices' hindge
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 11:37 pm
OH the Cast hindge that Brion sells!!! I first saw this casted hindge in his book on armoring and thought "what a damn good Idea" since it is his Idea and IM too lazy to goto work making a master and having them casted I contacted him about selling these. Brion saw the need and got them done promptly, keeping us all informed as to the status on the casting.
I just put one on a bargrill for my personal helm..
let me just say Im one of those " I gotta see to believe types" and after a few hours of abuse to include sticking it in a vice and giving it a bit of "what for" the only thing I could get it to do was bend a bit. I just had to abuse it a bit since it looked so danty:-) I polished it up, fitted it to the visor and set the holes. the ONLY thing that sucked with using the hindge was getting the damn "T" bolt right and even that was NOTHING compaired to making a hindge and mounting it with rivets in a perminate fashion. I opted to use a bolt instead of a push pin for the top hole since I dont forsee changing visors often and the bolt allowed me another avenue for decor. with it on the helm it blends well porportionatly speaking and doesnt over power the helm top. its small size allows for further decor in making a sliding cover as some german helms have over thier hindge or applying brasswork coronets without it hainging on the corners. For 22.50 these hindges take a large portion of time and effort out of your production time and allow for very precise fitting of new or interchange pieces at a later date.
Id HIGHLY recommend any who make Bascinets to buy these hinges and save yourself some hours in the shop and trouble later in fixing a broken hindge. these things are tough, tiny, and easy to install.
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Sir Samuel De Grac'e
I just put one on a bargrill for my personal helm..
let me just say Im one of those " I gotta see to believe types" and after a few hours of abuse to include sticking it in a vice and giving it a bit of "what for" the only thing I could get it to do was bend a bit. I just had to abuse it a bit since it looked so danty:-) I polished it up, fitted it to the visor and set the holes. the ONLY thing that sucked with using the hindge was getting the damn "T" bolt right and even that was NOTHING compaired to making a hindge and mounting it with rivets in a perminate fashion. I opted to use a bolt instead of a push pin for the top hole since I dont forsee changing visors often and the bolt allowed me another avenue for decor. with it on the helm it blends well porportionatly speaking and doesnt over power the helm top. its small size allows for further decor in making a sliding cover as some german helms have over thier hindge or applying brasswork coronets without it hainging on the corners. For 22.50 these hindges take a large portion of time and effort out of your production time and allow for very precise fitting of new or interchange pieces at a later date.
Id HIGHLY recommend any who make Bascinets to buy these hinges and save yourself some hours in the shop and trouble later in fixing a broken hindge. these things are tough, tiny, and easy to install.
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Sir Samuel De Grac'e