03-02-2017, 07:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-02-2017, 07:48 AM by Crispianus.)
The CD helmet in question is most likely mild steel and would at the rim appear to be thicker then the bowl due to stretch as its formed, in my experience mostly from the seventies and early eighties when these things were commonly used to make re-enactment helmets, they are at best safety helmets easy to cut with a pair of hand held tin snips... bowl thickness 18g at best but more likely thinner maybe as thin as 20g.. enough to provide rudimentary protection from spent shell fragment failling out the sky during an air-raid...
A Combat Brodie you definatly could not cut by hand either with a saw or shears I know I tried it.... and gave up....
As to Roman iron helmets does anyone have any details on metal analysis for these, I dont recall ever seeing anything?
A Combat Brodie you definatly could not cut by hand either with a saw or shears I know I tried it.... and gave up....
As to Roman iron helmets does anyone have any details on metal analysis for these, I dont recall ever seeing anything?
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
