Freon can

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 5:52 pm

Bid quick! Less than 3 hrs to go!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19255&item=2981692559

ArtemisGreen · Post by **ArtemisGreen** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 5:56 pm

I'm loving the maximillian-style flutes on the top.

[img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]

At least he knows what he's selling, and isn't telling people it's good to go for SCA.

Owen · Post by **Owen** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:44 pm

I don't think those are flutes...

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ArtemisGreen · Post by **ArtemisGreen** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:46 pm

Which is why I gave the big grin face...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:24 pm

Aye, it takes me back...

BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO GO THERE!

MPorter · Post by **MPorter** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:57 pm

Damn, I was going to make one of those, and sell it as a "vintage SCA heavy combat helm". I wonder if I could actually convince someone it is a collector's item.

Halberds · Post by **Halberds** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:24 am

Mike, don't be looking at my pressurized hydrocarbons cans under the bench.

Ok, all we need is a magic marker and a good plasma torch artist and we be good to go.

How making a barbute out of one?

Buhahahahahahahah........................

Garth · Post by **Garth** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:38 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Halberds:
How making a barbute out of one?

Buhahahahahahahah........................<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Heh- you laugh- I actually made one. Two actually. And a spangen. I made them back in the early 80's for my kids to play boffer weapons in the Outlands. Rolled the bottom edges and flattened the 'bumps' even. I was pretty pleased in my cluelessness. I couldn't wear the barbute though as my nose stuck out the front and as I didn't roll those edges, it hurt when someone hit me in the head. Ah, memories.

Garth

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:32 am

Your nose stuck out through a freon can??? [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/redface.gif[/img] How big is your head? Are you the elephant man? [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

Rainald · Post by **Rainald** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:10 pm

I made the black one on the right, second shelf out of a BBQ propane tank. It's almost like a freon tank except it's about 14 ~ 12 ga steel.

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/rainald/8HELMS.JPG

Garth · Post by **Garth** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:43 pm

Your nose stuck out through a freon can??? [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/redface.gif[/img] How big is your head? Are you the elephant man? [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

Some might think so...

They were, if I remember correctly, thinner and smaller than the freon tanks used in the early SCA. (If not I'm amazed any of them lived to tell about it) That and I had them padded for kids heads so they didn't fit on my noggin to begin with.

Garth

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:01 am

Hmmm, come to think of it, I've still got my 12 ga FT helm from the early '70s. Probably a holy relic by now. (Please note that the number of armorers could be counted, nationwide, without running out of fingers and toes back then. A freon tank wasn't such a bad doodge back then. They have since outlived their usefulness, but for "combat" it was never a big deal anyway.)

Red Dragon · Post by **Red Dragon** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:16 am

For several years I had a Freon can in my shop that I intended to make a helm out of. Now they have never been legal in my 19 years in the SCA, but I wanted to make a helm based on pictures of ones from when they were legal, and then label it as a "recreation of SCA legal helm circa 1980" (or something like that).

Never did get around to it.

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