Helmets - Anyone vinyl wrapped?

[AWG]

Is this possible? If so any recommendations as I dont want to go down the painting route.

[ikarl]

seriously?!?

just take a minute and think about how stupid that sounds!!

[PaulB81]

I use latex on mine. It does split occasionally which can be problematic but generally its ok

[David87]

I have a PH sticker on the back of mine. Does that count?

[jebus]

PaulB81 said:

I use latex on mine. It does split occasionally which can be problematic but generally its ok

[AWG]

ikarl said:

seriously?!?

just take a minute and think about how stupid that sounds!!

Why's that mate?

[RobCrezz]

ikarl said:

seriously?!?

just take a minute and think about how stupid that sounds!!

[AWG]

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LMAO!

[TonyHetherington]

Depends if it needs to be SA2005 approved or not. For fire reasons you need specific stickers/paints.

[RobCrezz]

TonyHetherington said:

Depends if it needs to be SA2005 approved or not. For fire reasons you need specific stickers/paints.

Ah, I see.

[AWG]

Nope this is literally just car trackday use only.

[ermi]

It should be possible. Chap who is a professional paint protection film installer, told me that he wrapped helmet in a paint protection film.

[veevee]

Does vinyl wrap shrink after application? 'Cos if not you might find it difficult to wrap a near spherical object!

[AWG]

veevee said:

Does vinyl wrap shrink after application? 'Cos if not you might find it difficult to wrap a near spherical object!

I think you can apply using a heat gun to form round certain shapes such as wing mirrors? Could be wrong. I'm just after a plain white wrap to cover the dodgy colour it is.

[TonyHetherington]

There's a video online of a chap who works for a vinyl company perfectly wrapping a football, to show how good they are at curves.

[AWG]

Now that is impressive!

Do you think regular vinyl will work if attempting yourself? Never done this before so likely to be rubbish!

[TonyHetherington]

My dad has just attempted wrapping some bits of a kit car we're building, so we've done a bit of investigation on the matter.

Go for the expensive stuff (for a helmet the amount you need won't cost much) and have a play. It's not one time application stuff. Also on that video I saw, they crumped up a brand new piece, with the stick side revealed, and pulled it all apart, put it on a car, teased out the creases and it looked perfect. So it erally is not somethign that you need to get right first time - you can play with it.

[AWG]

Im just up the road from you Tony, would be good to see how you get on with that!

I'll take a look at the 3M site and see what they do.

[TonyHetherington]

Do consider fire though. I've no idea if wrap is fire proof/retardant or not, and considering it's for a helmet it would be a bit rubbish if it caught fire very well

[AWG]

Good point, although the clothes I wear are definaltey flameable!