Helmet Mohawks in 10 Minutes

Step 3 Fuzzy Cloth Helmet Hairdo

Julia also needed a new helmet style, and she made her own 10-minute mohawk helmet using a strip of fuzzy pink cloth from the fabric store. 

• Cut the fabric to strip to length.
• Glue down only the middle the strip from end to end.
• Cut a few notches along the edge of the strip it to help conform to the curve of the helmet.
• Now glue the edges down

Julia used a skateboarding helmet which has less slots, it's a bit easier to glue onto.  She attached the fuzzy cloth with a hot-melt glue gun which is super fast and easy.  These guns are about $20 at your home improvement or hobby store, or from grizzlyindustrial.com.  You can also just use a variety of general-purpose rubbery glues (gorilla glue, silicone, liquid nails) for this.

Note:  the 'foam' part of the helmet is damaged by many common glues.  the 'shell' will not have a problem with most glues, if you are not certain you can make a small test patch first.

Comments

[crashtestracing]

Just remember that certain chemicals in glue can damage your helmets integrity. It not worth looking cool if your skull cracks open the first time you need the helmet.
helmets with plastic shells, especially thermoplastic shells can react to many normally harmless chemicals. So do your homework first when picking an adhesive. 

[dan]

good point.  the 'foam' part of the helmet is the sensitive part.  the shell can handle most glues.  so avoid getting glue on the foam.

[crashtestracing]

the foam can be damaged in different ways. some helmets, like the road helmet shown with the cable ties the foam is the most important part of the structure. The shell being just something that protects the foam from damage in light impacts in this case. But with high impact helmets, like ones for motor sport and i believe skateboarding/ BMX, the hard outer shell is really important and can be easily chemically damaged, even just by paints and adhesives.

Its best to do your research on your specific helmets construction before you begin. Im sure most of them will react well enough with most chemicals. just no reason to be lazy about it is all.