So if the visor on the production helmets were made tapered to fit the shape of the already tapered master casting, that means the mold master was cast tapered due to how they installed that visor and that is where the mistake happened.
If the production helmets were individually squeezed to fit the tapered visor shape (unlikely) then what I have been saying about the cause of the taper due to improper visor installation is still true.
This goes back to other earlier posts of mine.
Midnight Trooper wrote:
I think the taper problem occurred when they messed with the visor installation method. Either a new mold master was made which had improper visor installation (tapered) or could it even be each time a visor is glued in?
So going back to the first page of this thread again I read that Lee opined the MR taper was caused by the shape of the original helmet sculpt and the way the visor was installed.
I said I agreed with most of what he said but I thought the taper had to have been created by the MR mold master since the real helmets dont taper and neither did the MR prototype castings.
So now can anyone see why I got upset that I was blasted for offering my opinion? And why I was confused that it created so much drama when basically I was contributing to a topic I was interested and well versed in?
Especially when Lee's theory and mine were extremely closely related!At the end of the day we still dont have a definite answer. Lee and I put forth our similar theories. But only one of us was burned for it.
Going back to page 2
Midnight Trooper wrote:
My theory doesn't even fully disagree with his! We both think the pinch was caused by improper visor installation. We just differ on exactly Why.
AND neither of us knows for sure.
And Lee's final word above.
Rogue Studio wrote:
I would say that is a good assumption. I almost don't have too much more to offer on this than what I have speculated. I'm kind of out of answers and only have observations and speculation left. But the factory screwed something up and the taper got in there somehow but how I do not know..I sure I wish I did.
Lee
Other people put forth theories and you allow that they are good assumptions.
Now here at the end, would you allow that my theory below, contained in my first post in this thread, might be a good assumption?
Midnight Trooper wrote:
But the MR prototypes did not have it. I think the taper problem occurred when they messed with the visor installation method. Either a new mold master was made which had improper visor installation (tapered) or could it even be each time a visor is glued in?