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30 minutes ago, SaveByRichter35 said:

Did everyone stop drinking?

Nope.

I dont have experience with the Vintage, but I picked up their stock set this april and can answer any questions you might have.

If they dont specifically say epoxy, id assume polyester. Most manufacturers are pretty closed when it comes to what resins are used.

Some of the ringing maybe reduced by swapping foam. At the very least it recovers some of the shock absorption properties of the mask as a whole.

3 hours ago, dretti33 said:

Little bump to this thread with a question of my own. With the season starting up soon, I was going through the bag and noticed my helmet's (Bauer NME 8) HECC expired last September. Being a Canadian, we don't use the HECC, but it did make me realize that I bought the mask just over 9 years ago.

Apart from the eyeball test, the mask seems fine cosmetically. Only real issues I get is ears ringing on shots to the shell, a small dent on one of the middle vertical bars (cert cateye), and I've only replaced the sweat band on the inside of the mask.

So golden question is, should I start looking to replace the mask or look into foams and the like, and will foams help with ringers?

Foam can potentially help with a ringer. If the foam is still original, it may be broken down and less protective at this point. 

22 minutes ago, bunnyman666 said:

Yes. If it can take an arse in a seat, it should take ice. Test means test LOL

Theres a hard ass joke in there somewhere.

On 9/22/2021 at 10:25 AM, bunnyman666 said:

What excites me, if this works, is the ability to paint a set of pads to look like creamed horse Hide. Angeles paints work pretty well.

Will you be painting high traffic areas as well?

3 minutes ago, bunnyman666 said:

I know that so many times, people of tried without much success to paint pads and other gear. Well, I think I may have found the magic bullet.

Enter paint that is meant to be on car seats. Yes, most car seats are not Drum dyed, unless we are talking a HIGH DOLLAR luxury  car, such as a Rolls Royce, or Bugatti.

I will, of course, tested on pads I don’t care about. I won’t ruin a pair of pads that I like. 
 
stay tuned…

Im curious about this. I played around with plastidip a bit. I also painted a few wear spots with Angelus leather paint to see how well that holds up.

Sad to see that beauty retire. 

May be worth while to send a few pictures to Kustom Composites to get a more expert opinion.

1 minute ago, SaveByRichter35 said:

Sucks because I think the best guy for that type of job is Ray and he just retired.  Maybe send him some pictures just to get his opinion.

Shawn Schroder of Kustom Composites would be able to give an opinion on if it can be saved.

You could try some marine tex gel coat, its a two part epoxy, dries white.

Its sandable and I have used that on a couple of smaller mask repairs.

13 hours ago, conn6r said:

you can also yell by the harness straps

Not necessarily true. There are images of 960s with straps forward and back, as well as with double snaps for the bottom strap attachment. 

7 hours ago, ThatCarGuy said:

Since I imagine I’m not the only one dying to ask, what’s the size?

35+3" 7.5" boot. Its a 14" thighrise, which is a little bit shorter than my Passau 36+2" 

Just got my new JRZ Fusions in today. Cant wait to get them on the ice.

41 minutes ago, SaveByRichter35 said:

That must have made work pretty awkward.

I told them it would go poorly, and surprisedpikachu.gif it was. I had no business playing in that league.

3 hours ago, SaveByRichter35 said:

I start thinking about what my guys are thinking about my play.

This gets me the worst

My very first ever official league game was in A-League with some people from work who thought we would be fine. I basically said I am a newbie, first league yadda yadda. We got curb stomped and I got quickly booted off the team.

Then I was on another team that I randomly found and we played together for a while, won two championships then they were taking a season off after going winless. What they meant was I am not on the team but they kept playing. I got invited back after a season of them going winless again. 

7 minutes ago, RichMan said:

I dropped 120$ in there, spread over 5 different ones and it's been up and down a couple bucks for 2 weeks now. I'm trying to grasp how it all works, when to buy, when to sell, what to buy. I'm aware that Bitcoin/Ether/Dodgecoin are the major ones but to even dip into the real action, you'd have to drop at least a grand in each and I'm not ready to go there yet.

I'll be happy if I can double or tripple my money in 3-6 months. Then we'll see what I can do better.  

Crypto sort of does whatever it feels like most of the time. There is usually a dip around Chinese new year.

I have some eth, been mining chia since May

25 minutes ago, Jimwall said:

Foam is screwed in which the 950 and 960 both have

The 960 of 2014 had glued in VN foam still. Probably is a 950.

It looks like it was made in Nov 2014 based on the HECC cert expiry.

Is the foam screwed in or is it glued in?

10 hours ago, RichMan said:

That word. That one goal that starts the uh oh crap and no matter how much shit or pep talk you give yourself, you're shook. It's hard to reset sometimes.

I learned it from watching Tristan Jarry. 

All kidding, I was playing for two teams this summer, one team is in a "draft" league, and I was picked up by the same team ive been playing with for 3 years just about. First two games we had full benches and we won, then people stopped showing up, and we played a lot of games with no subs, or with two guys in their 60s as our subs. I saw a ton of shots but it lead to some bad habits, where I would be completely gassed, and let up one goal, then another quick one right after, because there was no way we were winning those games and the other team wasnt letting up at all despite the games being out of reach by a lot. 

This started to bleed into my other league which is much more competitive as I just wasnt as focused or reset after a goal as I should have been. 

I ended up taking about 5 weeks off since August due to my knee feeling a pressure build up and pop like I felt I was shot in the leg.  I play the last game for my competitive team tonight and Ill likely be more focused.

2 hours ago, SaveByRichter35 said:

This shit hits like a ton of bricks.  I am my own worst enemy out there.  

So much this, I have had a few games that just snowballed this summer from being in my own head and not fully resetting from a previous goal.

Yup. check your pms

Ill buy that!