911car said:http://www.ebay.com/itm/Plaque-de-Casque-a-Pointe-Saxe-WW1-/261901444609?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_71&hash=item3cfa8ae601
911car said:It is a plate with screw attachments (not loops), which is what your helmet needs. If interested you must ask the seller what the distance between the two screws is.
The seller has thousands of + feedbacks (100 %); I would not be worried.
The price is rather on the high side....
SHOOTEST said:911car said:It is a plate with screw attachments (not loops), which is what your helmet needs. If interested you must ask the seller what the distance between the two screws is.
The seller has thousands of + feedbacks (100 %); I would not be worried.
The price is rather on the high side....
The seller tells me that it is 6cm between screws and my helmet holes are just under 7cm. Would it be proper to open the existing holes up a bit to accommodate this plate being it is hard to find or would this be a real No No ?
Thanks for your help !
b.loree said:As this is a private purchase helmet, there are no grommets in the shell so you could carefully enlarge a little bit on both holes. Use a round file like you would use for sharpening a chain saw. This is your call however, as Bruno points out and there is still no guarantee that when you get the plate, it will fit the curvature of your shell. Very often, the holes for an officer plate are larger than the diameter of the screw posts going into them, and they are backed with tin washers on the inside. The plate you are looking at to buy has screw posts which means, that it is an older one made before they switched to loops or that it was private purchase. Either way, if it can be made to fit with a slight adjustment, it is the correct wappen for this helmet and one part of your quest has been found. In addition, since this is an OR's wappen, you can keep that OR's spike on which it came with.[/quote
Again many thanks for all of your help with this project...I went ahead and bought the plate and think I can make it work, at least I will give it a try.
SHOOTEST said:b.loree said:As this is a private purchase helmet, there are no grommets in the shell so you could carefully enlarge a little bit on both holes. Use a round file like you would use for sharpening a chain saw. This is your call however, as Bruno points out and there is still no guarantee that when you get the plate, it will fit the curvature of your shell. Very often, the holes for an officer plate are larger than the diameter of the screw posts going into them, and they are backed with tin washers on the inside. The plate you are looking at to buy has screw posts which means, that it is an older one made before they switched to loops or that it was private purchase. Either way, if it can be made to fit with a slight adjustment, it is the correct wappen for this helmet and one part of your quest has been found. In addition, since this is an OR's wappen, you can keep that OR's spike on which it came with.[/quote
Again many thanks for all of your help with this project...I went ahead and bought the plate and think I can make it work, at least I will give it a try.
SHOOTEST said:SHOOTEST said:b.loree said:As this is a private purchase helmet, there are no grommets in the shell so you could carefully enlarge a little bit on both holes. Use a round file like you would use for sharpening a chain saw. This is your call however, as Bruno points out and there is still no guarantee that when you get the plate, it will fit the curvature of your shell. Very often, the holes for an officer plate are larger than the diameter of the screw posts going into them, and they are backed with tin washers on the inside. The plate you are looking at to buy has screw posts which means, that it is an older one made before they switched to loops or that it was private purchase. Either way, if it can be made to fit with a slight adjustment, it is the correct wappen for this helmet and one part of your quest has been found. In addition, since this is an OR's wappen, you can keep that OR's spike on which it came with.[/quote
Again many thanks for all of your help with this project...I went ahead and bought the plate and think I can make it work, at least I will give it a try.
kaiser said:as far as i can tel from viewing the outside of the shell you dont need to replace the spike
this is the correcrt one
from looking at your pics i saw that there are 2 pics from the outside
and other member mention that you needet a officer plate
can you post aditional pics from the inside then
becose for me this is a manschafts helmet instead of an officer
i could be wrong juding the helmet but the one part you need is a leather chinstrap
and your helmet is complete again
nice project by the way
jonas