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Re: [Land-speed] Head Sock vs Helmet Skirt...

To: "J.D. Tone" <gmc6power@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Head Sock vs Helmet Skirt...
From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:07:03 -0800
Thank you JD. But that wasn't what I asked. The rule book allows it. So 
if I want to wear a helment skirt, I will.

mayf
J.D. Tone wrote:

> My son and I  wear a sock and a shirt. Can't be too safe in a 
> roadster. For your next helmet buy one with an air-duct and make or 
> buy a air pump to force filtered air into the helmet. Both G-Force and 
> Simpson make them. You no longer have a fog up problem. The ducting 
> exits at the nose under the eyes. Parker pumper makes  a pump. A 
> NASCAR duct blower will work too;  just add a filter and taper it for 
> 1" .
>
> Any and everthing you can think of has already been 
> done.............................Good Luck
>
>
>> After my ill advised attempt to do something meaningful with regards to
>> bailout demos,  I thought long and hard about sending another request...
>> But here goes, this one is personal just for me. When I put the head
>> sock on, then the helmet then the eyeglasses and start steaming and
>> boiling inside the suit and car, my eyeglasses start getting fogged up.
>> That seems to be mostly because the head sock covers everything but my
>> eyes and when I breath in and out it fogs the lenses. Does this happen
>> to you (if you wear glasses)? Anybody that uses a helment skirt have the
>> glasses/lens fogging with that system?
>>
>> Second part to the opera... I see in the current Summit catalog, that
>> add on helmet skirts are available and made from nomex and velcroed on.
>> Anybody tried this and gotten through tech with it? If so, what has to
>> be on the helmet/skirt to permit approval?
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