01-09-2007, 09:43 PM
Ahah! Very observant Robert! Yes, there is not so much a dent but an in-out bend in the nasal of the helmet and no-one seems to know how it got there. Every time I wear that helmet I get a slightly bruised nose and make a mental note to bring a stong pair of pliers with me next time we do a multi period display to straighten it out again. Of course, I always seem to forget until I am reminded of it again next time.
Unfortunately the helmet lives with the rest of the multi-period kit on one of the vans most of the time so I don't get to take it home with me and very little maintenance tends to get done on the kit on the van, meaning that repairs are often carried out at the last minute when the person due to be wearing or carrying something notices something is not as it should be. If we did more than one or two multi period displays a year this situation would probably be very different. Hopefully, now that we have a unit quartermaster we should be able to carry out some sort of audit for repairs on the multi period kit.
Crispvs
Unfortunately the helmet lives with the rest of the multi-period kit on one of the vans most of the time so I don't get to take it home with me and very little maintenance tends to get done on the kit on the van, meaning that repairs are often carried out at the last minute when the person due to be wearing or carrying something notices something is not as it should be. If we did more than one or two multi period displays a year this situation would probably be very different. Hopefully, now that we have a unit quartermaster we should be able to carry out some sort of audit for repairs on the multi period kit.
Crispvs
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