bunnyman666 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Yep- finally bought one that stared at me on eBay. That ol’ ugly thing. Yet something makes me want it so badly. I don’t recall one pro ever wearing one. I rarely saw them whilst in minor hockey, and only in Juniors did I start seeing the occasional modern combo, though the Badger started making appearances right around the time I was leaving hockey. But the SK2000 was de rigeur at the time with a Jofa 390 and large bubble cage making the rare appearance. The first part I want to do is see what the mask part is made of. This is merely for curiosity's sake. The second part is to measure and see whether or not I could cut the opening for a 960-style cage could be put on. If a more readily available cage can go on, it would be easier and less expensive to have replacement cages made. Olympia Composites can make a replacement cage, but for a price. The third part is to make a mould from the mask part. This would be most likely the easiest thing that I could build. I am still messing about with my upcoming mask mould, which I work on intermittently; I would be building a copy from a composite material. I would use this with my Kustom Composites player helmet. For reference: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scythe Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 they look pretty good from a side angle. Is'nt JOFA pronounced YO-FA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnyman666 Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 1 minute ago, Scythe said: they look pretty good from a side angle. Is'nt JOFA pronounced YO-FA? Yes, sir! Yo-fah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HP29 Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 2 hours ago, Scythe said: they look pretty good from a side angle. Is'nt JOFA pronounced YO-FA? I always thought these looked like a poor man's Armadilla from the side! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnyman666 Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 1 hour ago, HP29 said: I always thought these looked like a poor man's Armadilla from the side! They kind of do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Pucker Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 On 11/20/2019 at 9:46 PM, bunnyman666 said: Yep- finally bought one that stared at me on eBay. That ol’ ugly thing. Yet something makes me want it so badly. I don’t recall one pro ever wearing one. I rarely saw them whilst in minor hockey, and only in Juniors did I start seeing the occasional modern combo, though the Badger started making appearances right around the time I was leaving hockey. But the SK2000 was de rigeur at the time with a Jofa 390 and large bubble cage making the rare appearance. The first part I want to do is see what the mask part is made of. This is merely for curiosity's sake. The second part is to measure and see whether or not I could cut the opening for a 960-style cage could be put on. If a more readily available cage can go on, it would be easier and less expensive to have replacement cages made. Olympia Composites can make a replacement cage, but for a price. The third part is to make a mould from the mask part. This would be most likely the easiest thing that I could build. I am still messing about with my upcoming mask mould, which I work on intermittently; I would be building a copy from a composite material. I would use this with my Kustom Composites player helmet. For reference: Very interesting - I've never seen this one: not in the wild, nor in captivity! Is the one pictured yours? If so, could you share some more pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnyman666 Posted November 22, 2019 Author Share Posted November 22, 2019 1 minute ago, Lucky Pucker said: Very interesting - I've never seen this one: not in the wild, nor in captivity! Is the one pictured yours? If so, could you share some more pics? It is from the eBay listing, so not in my grubby paws, yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnyman666 Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 @Lucky Pucker Just got it in the Post... It is filthy. No, not in the vein of “sick”, “ill” or “cool”, but literally dirtier than the men’s loo at a Petrol station in the hood!!! I need to clean it up. It is totally unusable as-is. Buttons/rivets/snaps show the typical Jofa corrosion, and the cage has paint literally popping off. It smells like it lived in a smoker’s house for awhile. I smelled the smoke when my wife had pulled in the box from the porch. Blech!!! The plastic is a nice, thick plastic. With some mods, the mask part could easily be pressed into service now with no concerns for safety; however- I still have an aversion to using close to 30 year old plastic! Also- I want to make a composite version of this! It would literally be one of the easiest composite projects I could do. Now if we could get eight days in a week and still only work five of those days... Let me clean this thing up. It looks like it could give me the Clap if I put it on my head at this point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colander Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 On 11/24/2019 at 6:25 AM, bunnyman666 said: ...Let me clean this thing up. It looks like it could give me the Clap if I put it on my head at this point! I think I hurt myself laughing at that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnyman666 Posted November 26, 2019 Author Share Posted November 26, 2019 4 hours ago, Colander said: I think I hurt myself laughing at that... It’s embarrassingly gross! I will not soil this forum with pics of how disgustingly dirty it is. It probably could give me AIDS, gonorrhoea and major jock itch, as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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