Disposing of old/damaged helmets

Hi All.

I have a couple of old helmets looking for a final resting place. None
of them have huge amounts of damage but they are definitely unsafe to
use - perfect for training paramedics. But I've phoned around the
ambulance trusts in the area[1] and they don't need any.

Any other suggestions other than lump hammer or hanging baskets?

Cheers.

[1] Surrey and Hampshire

 

I saw something once that may be of interest - dunno exactly how it
worked, but it involved magnets. A big magnet was stuck into the
helmet and another - opposing poles and all that - magnet was stuck
into a frame-type thing. Carefully place the helmet twixt and tween
the frame and viola, you have a spacey "helmet floating in mid-air art
installation". Stick on some glitter, shine a halogen spotlight onto
it and viola, you have a spacey "helmet floating in mid-air art
installation" doubling up as a disco glitter ball.

Or, remove all the foam, fabric, rubber, etc, so you're just left with
the shell. Line the edges with some chome metal thingies that you use
to protect the edges of shower screens, etc, and use the newly modifed
helmet as a gerbil house.

Or buy a shop mannequin, dress it in some old clothes, put the helmet
on, get some red LEDs and install them as eyes and stick the burglar
deterrent in your garage and watch the local scrotes shit themselves
when they try to break into your garage. It might also be useful if
you could rig up some sort of death ray thing, but that's beyond the
scope of this particular discussion.

Hope these help,

Ged

 

Hahaha, brilliant you loon.

 

Lob them on the fire. Lovely blaze, so it is.

 

What about your local St. John Ambulance, or Red Cross? They can use
them for training too.

 

If none of them want it you can always chop it to pieces with an axe,
it'll take you a while.

 

And watch out for the axe head bouncing back with some force, or
alternatively a full face helmet skidding around your garage in random
directions - you might want to station members of your family in a rough
circle around your work area and call it "Fielding Practice"

 

<wonders what I'm missing>

Err... throw them in the bin?


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Thanks. I hadn't realised that SJA used them. (I have also just
discovered that they run a specialist 'biker first aid' course).

I'll give them a try.

 

[snip]

I just *knew* it would be a mistake asking on here.....

;-)

 

May as well retire them somewhere that they would be of some final use.

But if the SJA/Red Cross don't want them then they will be binned.

 

I had a 20th-hand Stadium given to me when I first started motorcycling, and
after a few years as my spare, I retired it. It had been covered in
stickers and paint, dropped, left out in the rain, all the things that are
supposed to weaken helmets. Someone advised me to cut in half so that
no-one could use it again. I used a lump hammer and an axe and, although I
had some spectacular rebounds and pinballs round the garage, I could not
break it. After an hour, I gave up and ended up cutting it in two with a
bandsaw. Cheap, bottom of the range, polycarbonate helmet. I was well
impressed, I have to say.

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Rich
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2001 Disco II ES auto
1971 S2a 88" petrol
2005 XT660R

Take out the obvious to email me.

 

Drill some holes in it so that no-one can resell said helmet, then put
it in yer bin/donate it to local hospital/SJA for training purposes...
Don't use an axe or lump hammer it it, you will possibly end up in
hostiple...

 

Chris wrote

Angle Grinder


or as others have said, donate to St John's

 

Why are you writing me love notes? Wierdo.

I'm coming, I'm...oh...my...God...

Another alternative use: a mobile commode. Imagine if you will sitting
in the stands at your favourite MotoGP track and suddenly the urge to
urinate and/or defacate becomes too much for you to bear. Instead of
having to leave your hard won vantage point, with the your new handy
Motocommode, you simply slid onto the open end of the device, relieve
yourself and carry on watching the races. Make sure the visor is in
the closed position however, as failure to do so could lead to some
embarrassing situations.

The new Motocommode - now available in a range of styles and colours
for all fans - including the Mike Hailwood Shitter, the famous Barry
Sheene No 2, the Checa Crapper, the Rossi Relief, etc, etc.

Ged

 

Ged wrote

Sir needs to look at this Sir does:-

 

I'm at work and we don't have sound at work.

Doesn't really matter though, because I like looking at fuzzy pictures
of beardy Jocks.

Ged