Helmets Hi-vis Plasti-Dip

Used the blaze yellow on my Neotec. First you have to use a few coats of white Plasti-Dip before the blaze yellow so it will cover the black.

Came out pretty bright. Looks like hi-vis.

I like it! nice looking work there!

Thanks guys. I might do the front vent also.

That looks really great. Please let us know about durability.

Doing the front vent might be too much... might look like a creepy mouth. Even though dip peels right off you may want to mock it up by dipping a trimmed piece of painter's tape just to see.

I agree it might look like a weird mouth if you do the front vent.... which may still be cool... I want to see the side view!

That looks really great. Please let us know about long term durability.

Doing the front vent might be too much... might look like a creepy mouth. Even though dip peels right off you may want to mock it up by dipping a trimmed piece of painter's tape just to see.

It's pretty durable. I used 3 coats of white and 3 coats of the blaze yellow.

Clever, that looks really good! Some more pics would be nice.

Is the original black color a matte black that takes the plasti-dip well? Did you do any surface prep other than cleaning? Brush it on?

Looks good Fred. Did you have to prep surface or did you just paint it on?

Yes, the helmet is matte black. All I did was clean the helmet with glass cleaner.

How is the plasti-dip holding up Fred?

I clear coat plasti dip to make it tougher so it won't rub off. That makes it hard.

So far so good. I do have a corner lifting though. Read where a little thinner will reset it. That was due to my own mistake of removing the stripe tape after the Plastidip was too dry. I didn't realize you had to do it while it was wet. I'm not sure how to do that when you use white as a base coat. Would be a pain re-striping again to apply the yellow.

I did a motorcycle with the stuff.

Went from this:


To this:


I love Plasti Dip. It's cool stuff

I've been looking at my white Neotech and thinking of doing something similar. Did you remove the top vent in order to apply the Dip?
Mike

Until i peeled it off prior to selling the bike. Only issues were where screw heads twisted the Dip when replacing tupperware and where the seat rubbed the side of the bike (hidden from view). A washer under the screw head would fix the first problem. I was surprised how durable it was. As a test i cleaned and sprayed the under side of the front fender. When it came time to pull it off it was still intact. I rode quite a bit of gravel with it there and it looked pretty good. Any scratches are easily covered with another coat. I think it took about five cans to put 4-5 coats on all of the plastic.

Many choices of colors available on-line. My local hardware store stocks red, white and black.
Mike

Washed it with Dawn liquid soap and an old wash cloth.......same as I wash everything.
Mike

A little Plasti Dip experiment. Neat stuff.

DeanR said:

A little Plasti Dip experiment. Neat stuff.

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The white?

paulcb said:

The white?

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yep... that was gonna be a base for some other color, possibly copper, but I kinda like it like that.