pin lock face sheilds

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Pinlocks are easy enough to care for. What needs to be avoided is marking them. They're soft and once marked they can't be fixed.
I trashed my first one by shoving my gloves inside the helmet. The gloves left some lines that couldn't be removed. I still shove my gloves in the helmet, but I'm much more careful now.
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An alternative to pin lock and wipe on solutions may be look at double wall snow mobile helmet shields and heated shields.
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airway wrote: Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:31 pmIt wasn't that great in clarity-had some distortion like a cheap pair of sunglasses might
Weird, I never had such a problem with Scorpion shields. I wonder if you had a defective one?
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I made an ant farm out of my pinloc and they keep it quite clean.
Although they make me go cross eyed watching them when it's going to rain :mrgreen:
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The Veg wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:05 pm
airway wrote: Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:31 pmIt wasn't that great in clarity-had some distortion like a cheap pair of sunglasses might
Weird, I never had such a problem with Scorpion shields. I wonder if you had a defective one?
Well, I thought that was probably the case, so I returned it to the place I bought the helmet. They gave me another one and it was not much better, but tolerable. It may be that I had gotten used to my old helmets' visor-a Shoei . Shoei's shields are aircraft quality. If clean, you literally cannot tell that you are looking through anything at all.
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ME 109 wrote: Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:01 am I made an ant farm out of my pinloc and they keep it quite clean.
Although they make me go cross eyed watching them when it's going to rain :mrgreen:
Yea but I bet Ozzie ants head right for your urethra if disturbed. :shock:
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