carrying Helmets

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Quote:</em></strong><hr>what kind of rivets did you use to replace the awful screws? I mean metal, not just "good" ones <hr><br>
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I used some of the copper belt rivits used for segmentata construction as well as a couple of brass dome rivits for the brow-guard - since my helm was a fairly early one that had machine screws holding that in place as well.<br>
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Quote:</em></strong><hr>Did you also replace or modify the crossbraces itself? I imagine at Leg.IX you slapped on some black fresh-from-the-forge braces...But I'm curious if I could do a quick and dirty modify with the existing ones. (I was thinking just whacking/rasping the heck out of the intersection, round out the machined edges/notch to make it look purposeful, ya know?)<hr><br>
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<laughing> Yeah, making new crossbraces was on my list - but then we (The IX HISP and our fratres VI VIC up in LA) agreed to what we call the Gentleman's Agreement - in which each club shifted our respective time periods a small bit... making the Italic G just past our time period.<br>
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Iwas planning on hammering 'em out in the forge, since I had started making a really sweet hardy for the anvil, that would let me make the half-rounds really easily. Ah well<br>
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<p>LEG IX HSPA - COH III EXPG - CEN I HIB<br>
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