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Receiving and Initial Helmet Preparation

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How NASCAR Drivers Custom Helmets Are Painted! Inside Off Axis Paint Shop Tour!

What happens here

The process begins with receiving new blank helmet shells, which can be made from carbon fiber or composite materials. Each helmet is meticulously checked in and then fully disassembled. This involves removing all internal padding, external hardware, and the visor to ensure only the bare shell remains. Critical areas that should not be painted are then carefully taped off to protect them during the subsequent painting stages.

Goal: Prepare the raw helmet shell for painting.

Tools and materials

  • Basic Hand Tools — Disassembling helmet components
  • Blank Helmet Shells Arai — The base for custom painting; can be carbon fiber or composite
  • Masking Tape — Taping off areas not to be painted

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it and then this is this is where the magic happens so noel's doing the magic now oh yeah i'm just putting some trim on the bottom of this before we put our final clear coat on it yeah see so i guess walk us through the process how it's made style you get a helmet in a box yeah pretty much so all these are in the boxes just came in um off season obviously for us is insane because every driver you know for all three series um and everything else they all get new helmets new new sponsors new everything so uh it's kind of like a race against the clock since you know october to february of how quick can we get stuff done for photo shoots and um i don't know whatever commercials anything like that and then the final push for kind of daytona for all the pit helmets and everything else yeah they come in on the box they get checked in and then they get everything torn out of them it's all taped up um you know sometimes they're carbon sometimes they composite just depends on on what the driver prefers and then it all gets sanded down so all these are waiting to get sanded and then we

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