linothorax and other white cuirases

[Thomas V.]

The hinges work as a closing device {..]. As you can see in the images I attach from a bronce cuirass, they use big hinges in both sides, with bolts that can be removed.

Hinges equiped with a removable bolt could indeed work as a closing device. In the article I posted, the author even suggests that: The connecting hinges would be located on one side and the closing hinges on the other.

In the Augustus sculpture, the door mechanism is in the shoulders, with two hinges, not in the sides that just work as a closing mechanism.

The shoulder flaps have a hinge and the left side of the cuirass also shows a hinge. Take a look at the picture posted by Gaius Varro.

Will be impossible to open the cuirass with hinges in the shoulders and in the sides.

Bollocks. If you want to open/close the Prima Porta cuirass, you first need to fold back the shoulder flaps. The hinges of the two shoulder flaps enable you to fold the flaps back.

The Priima Porta arrangement is sugesting a much lighter cuirass.

In the first post of the thread you wrote that some of the roman muscle cuirasses were flexible, jointless and displaying sleeves. Why would an armour that is so flexible that the 'cap sleeve effect' can be achieved (and therefore as flexible as chainmail) even need hinges? I am aware that the Prima Porta cuiras doesn't has such sleeves, but as you claim it suggested a ligther cuirass, I assume that you think of the Prima Porta cuirass as an example for your musculata concept ( clued linen, so flexible that a 'cap sleeve effect' could be achieved). First you used the absence of joints as an argument for a muscle cuirass made out of glued linen and know you use the presence of a joint as an argumen, so you are condtradicting yourself.

Speaking of glued linen:

There is only one way that makes possible to create a musculata armour wth flexible shoulders, and this will be with glue and linen in a mold, - using the right glue..

If glued linen allows one to achieve flexible shoulders, why didn't Aldrete's linothorax cuirasses show the 'cap sleeve effect'?