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(Manual)Wiper for helmets
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introwiper glove
Last year I was hanging out with a friend while he was checking out snowboards and I saw a glove that had a tiny wiper blade attached to it for cleaning your visor when it gets wet. While I don't snowboard I do ride a motorbike, I also live on the rainy west coast of Canada, which means even in the spring and summer I can expect to get rained on.
I had just bought new gloves for this season a few months back and decided that this would be a neat project to try out.
Enough talk, let's make something!
step 1aquire materialsstep 2break apartstep 3rubber surgury
From my rough cut piece of the blade we're going to need to trim that profile down a bit. Grab a sharp knife and start at one end and simply slice down the length of the blade to trim off the smaller underside portion of the blade. We're doing this so it sits flatly on the glove and won't wobble around so much.
Again every wiper will be a little different, but should all be roughly the same, so if yours doesn't look just like this don't worry, just trim down what you can so you have a nice solid base for your wiper to sit flat on your glove.
step 4needle and threadSmexy Dead and threadbanger.
The type of needle you use should be a fairly thick gauge so it doesn't snap and poke out your eyeball, and the tread we're using here is a heavy nylon with a gloss coat. Really anything will work, just make sure you're using some heavy thread as you really don't want this to come off.
step 5putting it all together
The original I saw had the wiper on the thumb, however for this application it wasn't the ideal location for my wiper as has the possibility to rub up against the part where my bike grips meet the clutch reservoir, so I elected to place the wiper from where the thumb joins with the hand as shown in the picture.
Using the thick thread I positioned the blade and attached the ends first, then made a few more simple stitches in the middle. It's that easy!
step 6done!
If all goes according to plan then you should be done! It's a fairly simple project and it works great, especially since the alternative is a smeared visor which isn't very much fun.
step 7Final thoughts
introwiper glove
Last year I was hanging out with a friend while he was checking out snowboards and I saw a glove that had a tiny wiper blade attached to it for cleaning your visor when it gets wet. While I don't snowboard I do ride a motorbike, I also live on the rainy west coast of Canada, which means even in the spring and summer I can expect to get rained on.
I had just bought new gloves for this season a few months back and decided that this would be a neat project to try out.
Enough talk, let's make something!
step 1aquire materialsstep 2break apartstep 3rubber surgury
From my rough cut piece of the blade we're going to need to trim that profile down a bit. Grab a sharp knife and start at one end and simply slice down the length of the blade to trim off the smaller underside portion of the blade. We're doing this so it sits flatly on the glove and won't wobble around so much.
Again every wiper will be a little different, but should all be roughly the same, so if yours doesn't look just like this don't worry, just trim down what you can so you have a nice solid base for your wiper to sit flat on your glove.
step 4needle and threadSmexy Dead and threadbanger.
The type of needle you use should be a fairly thick gauge so it doesn't snap and poke out your eyeball, and the tread we're using here is a heavy nylon with a gloss coat. Really anything will work, just make sure you're using some heavy thread as you really don't want this to come off.
step 5putting it all together
The original I saw had the wiper on the thumb, however for this application it wasn't the ideal location for my wiper as has the possibility to rub up against the part where my bike grips meet the clutch reservoir, so I elected to place the wiper from where the thumb joins with the hand as shown in the picture.
Using the thick thread I positioned the blade and attached the ends first, then made a few more simple stitches in the middle. It's that easy!
step 6done!
If all goes according to plan then you should be done! It's a fairly simple project and it works great, especially since the alternative is a smeared visor which isn't very much fun.
step 7Final thoughts
BTW, did you try it out ?
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