Re: [CH] OT - How It's made - fireman's hat

Tina Brooks (shoestring_louise@yahoo.com)
Sat, 24 May 2008 12:05:57 -0700 (PDT) 

It's not a difficult judgement call to make I think... If it were me... I'd want the leather helm too!

 
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----- Original Message ----
From: jim <jim@mail.wildpepper.com>
To: Alex Silbajoris <asilbajo@hotmail.com>; chile heads <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 5:09:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CH] OT - How It's made - fireman's hat

Nope- cool.  Thanks!  Was familiar with some, but not all of it.  They also 
fail to mention how *heavy* leather helmets are :-)  Most folks are stunned 
when I hand them mine at the shows.  They are also very expensive as can be 
guessed from all the hand labor that goes into one.  They last almost 
forever though.  

They make an imitation plastic one that some of the guys (and gals) wear 
that's only about 1/10th as heavy.  Won't catch me in one though!  Had a 
pretty intense fire one time, a "good one" as we say, and vaporized 
everything on my helmet that wasn't leather or metal.  Hi-temp polycarbonate 
face shield vanished & the decorative shield (plastic and leather- in the 
video it was the part that was printed "How it's made", & had a French 
phrase on it) was still on fire when I came out for re-hab :-)
  
"Hey- your helmets on fire."
"Yeah, right."  
"No, really- your helmet's on fire!"  
"WOW.  Cool!!"

They questioned the integrity of my leather helmet after going through that 
& wanted me to accept a plastic one as a replacement.

Let's see here.  Everything plastic on *this* helmet is gone and you want to 
replace it with one that's made up *entirely* of plastic?  Ummm.... Yeah, 
sure.

-Jim C
http://www.StepUpForCharity.org
Mild to Wild(R)