Adjustable helmet padding

Ingvarr · Post by **Ingvarr** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:47 pm

I'm looking for ideas to easily adjust helmet sizing with pads for loaner helmets.

Halberds · Post by **Halberds** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:14 am

This is a good quest.
Best of luck little pilgram.

I would have the newbie make a foam pattern to fit their head.
Use duct tape to hold it all together. Glue will also work.
Rember the 1/2" thick rule.

Add or subtract as needed, to fit the helm in question.
A Dremel tool will grind foam easier than metal.
Use the sanding drum to grind foam to fit.

Now each newbie will have his personal head padding.
Duct tape it in place and you be good to go.

Be safe out there.
And don't hit the newbies so hard.

Hal

losthelm · Post by **losthelm** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:01 am

Becareful with the choice of glue.
Years ago someone made the sugested to use silicone and the padding ended up with hard lumps of calk. Under compression it was like wearing a bag of gravel.

Rubber Cement and most spray adhesives work well with out forming hard spots.

The helmet liner works well and usualy takes less then an hour to fit well.
I leave a slot for the chin strap and feed it throught the liner.

Johann Lederer · Post by **Johann Lederer** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:31 am

I found this site a while back:
http://www.swordbrother.com/sca/helmpadding/

Perhaps, you could make a foam liner to fit the person and then pad the helmet to make up the difference. The new person could hang on to the foam insert and the helm wouldn't need changed just the padding?

I have seen guys use wrestling/ martial arts headgear in some loaners.

mrks · Post by **mrks** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:28 pm

make your helm padding large.

then add some velcro to the outside of the padding.
for smaller persons add foam using velcro should work

you could also put some velcro on the helm itself and add foam pieces for smaller heads?

how about simply using several sizes of replaceable helm paddings. this sounds like the best option.

Konstantin the Red · Post by **Konstantin the Red** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:29 pm

It's certainly an interesting idea. Are you at present having to fit several widely-ranging hat sizes into one loaner helm, or is this kind of theoretical? If you have actual heads present, what range of sizes do you have to accomodate?

So many adult humans have heads ranging in hat sizes from 7 to 7 3/8, a decided difference but not an enormous one.