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Claudiu1988
Posted: February 17, 2006 09:46 am
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Posted: February 17, 2006 09:47 am
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Posted: February 17, 2006 09:48 am
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A needle is good but much better is a cutter, it makes a great job.

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Claudiu1988
Posted: February 17, 2006 09:49 am
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mihnea
  Posted: February 17, 2006 05:59 pm
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It looks very good.

When are you going to finish it? I’m very eager to see it finished. happy.gif

I started working on my other helmet because of you, but it takes ages to clean the paint. I’m doing it with very fine sand paper (P600); it looks good but its hard work.

I’ll post pictures tomorrow.
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Posted: February 18, 2006 08:15 pm
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Here it is, not a big change but you can see the difference.
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No work has taken place at the interior.
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Claudiu1988
Posted: February 19, 2006 11:41 am
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Good job I am still trying to get off the remaining paint but because it's to thin bought paints are getting off. I will try with very fine sand paper like yours. I will post pictures with the finished helmet soon. I only have 4 more helmets laugh.gif
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mihnea
Posted: February 19, 2006 08:35 pm
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The fine sand paper can be found at any car part shop.

Here is my helmet after cleaning it and applying some satin lacquer, it uniforming (uniformizeaza) the color, I highly recommend it to you.

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Posted: February 20, 2006 06:38 pm
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This is my beauty! cool.gif

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Claudiu1988
Posted: February 21, 2006 01:08 pm
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Mihnea what is a satin lacquer? Because I really don,t know.
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Posted: February 21, 2006 01:19 pm
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QUOTE (Claudiu1988 @ Feb 21 2006, 01:08 PM)
Mihnea what is a satin lacquer? Because I really don,t know.

Satin lacquer means "lac mat".

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Very nice helmet and in very good condition. I never knew that the liner could be also brown.
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Posted: February 21, 2006 01:33 pm
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Yes, I was also amazed when I got it. It even has the royal acceptance stamp inside.
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Posted: February 21, 2006 01:58 pm
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Yes very nice helmet. Where did you get it?
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Claudiu1988
Posted: February 21, 2006 02:02 pm
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The interior of the helmet is like one of mine. Don't you think, only that the lether of my helmet has dryed out.

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Posted: February 21, 2006 02:03 pm
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Mihnea thanks for the translation. biggrin.gif
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