socalfusions
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I've searched through many posts on how to go about gold mirror tinting my hang glider helmet visor but haven't found a solution that I feel I'd be capable of doing yet.
The first attempt I did was using window tint from Nusolis but failed miserably when trying to apply the tint with the soapy water method due to the curvature of the visor which is on a Charly No Limit hang glider helmet.
Here was the result, Quite the frustration to say the least. Now I'm not sure how to go about tinting it, I considered just hot gluing the tint sheet directly to the lens without peeling the adhesive off but have no idea if that would work given the present curvature of the visor. I saw a post about using Alud chrome spray paint but I don't have a sprayer and no experience in that matter.
I see so many great halo helmets with the gold mirror tint and felt compelled how to go about successfully applying a gold mirror finish to my helmets visor. One thing that caught my attention was this Flexible Metallic visor material seen on Etsy and used in some of the builds here, unfortunately it appears too small to use for a full sized visor such as mine since it's only 34cm in width while my visor is over 40cm. I wonder what the difference is between that etsy material and the tint I got? It says you just hot glue it to the helmet but, for halo builds, that seems like a much more appropriate item for the helmets smaller visor profile.
The first attempt I did was using window tint from Nusolis but failed miserably when trying to apply the tint with the soapy water method due to the curvature of the visor which is on a Charly No Limit hang glider helmet.
Here was the result, Quite the frustration to say the least. Now I'm not sure how to go about tinting it, I considered just hot gluing the tint sheet directly to the lens without peeling the adhesive off but have no idea if that would work given the present curvature of the visor. I saw a post about using Alud chrome spray paint but I don't have a sprayer and no experience in that matter.
I see so many great halo helmets with the gold mirror tint and felt compelled how to go about successfully applying a gold mirror finish to my helmets visor. One thing that caught my attention was this Flexible Metallic visor material seen on Etsy and used in some of the builds here, unfortunately it appears too small to use for a full sized visor such as mine since it's only 34cm in width while my visor is over 40cm. I wonder what the difference is between that etsy material and the tint I got? It says you just hot glue it to the helmet but, for halo builds, that seems like a much more appropriate item for the helmets smaller visor profile.
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