Extremely Rusty & Broken WW2 British Helmet - 80 Year Old Restoration

Restoring this rusted WW1 or WW2 British "Brodie" Helmet. Rusted completely through the metal, but with some love this restoration project is restored.
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[@clifbradley]

Thats pretty cool. My grandfather used to tell me stories about them using their steel helmets for cooking or sometimes soaking their toes in hot water. The worst was if you used your helmet for cooking and then you were starving, you could still smell the soup you made in the helmet. Of course his helmet was punctured several places by bombings. He got a total of 130 stitches in his head throughout the war. His friends called him 'Frankenstein' which wasn't as popular back then so he had no idea who that was and thought it was a German curse word.😊

[@caractax.3110]

👏🥰

[@JustSearchNate]

Thanks for sharing this with us. And thank your Grandpa for his service!

[@gabrielbenachir9977]

Your grandpa was a hero ❤

[@Arandomperson-ib4gb]

What a wonderful grandfather 👴

[@dd61125]

sounds like aload of guff mate but nice attempt !

[@Grahame59]

It's WW1 as it has a raw edge. WW2 helmets had a stainless steel lip around the rim. Overall shape is slightly different too, for example the rim is wider at the side on a WW1 Brodie such as yours. You have fitted a WW2-style liner and chinstrap. Other than that oddity, a nice restoration.

[@SpartanMain]

Most people don’t want to restore these. It’s best as is.

[@andrewmacdonald4833]

Amazing to watch...and a skillful restoration...can't help thinking that this was a Great War Brodie rather than a WW2 version...but still...really well done when you see what it first looked like.

[@Jezidka]

So Special, I've wanted to have an old WW1 or WW2 helmet in my house. All of my family is either army, air force, navy, marine, police, doctor, nurse, secretary of state, and fire fighter. We all respect those who have fought for our country in every branch. This was a good restore.

[@claytonmcclain182]

Absolutely 💯 Fantastic. truly and skill that will always be needed. Unfortunately I'm in my 60s and no one wants to learn skills. Anymore we've become a throw away society. Again fantastic job.👍👍God bless.

[@couchbear6108]

British WWI or WW2 era army helmet nicknamed the "battle bowler" due to its similarity to a bowler hat.

[@kokanut92]

Amazing skills and patience! Always a great watch.

[@Xenomorphdude472]

Hope the British see this, they will be thrilled to see you restoring the helmet.

[@michaelhughes7718]

Cheers mate 👍 this old chaps a tad mistreated, though. As a kid in Manchester, you'd see these now and again as kitchenware with handles welded on or converted into hanging baskets. They made good chicken nests, too. This one looks like it has been under water a long while, buried, or in a damp garden shed. One of my relations came back with his helmet and service Webley after WW1. Somebody stole them mores the pity.

[@Xenomorphdude472]

Using restored helmets can be recycled.

[@mullerpotgieter]

Beautifully done.

[@PGoodmanCOG]

I didn't know how you were going to bring this one back. Beautiful job.

[@gabrielbenachir9977]

Beautiful job! This is a relic of the fight for freedom ❤ thank you for taking great care of it ❤

[@bryanparkhurst17]

I did the exact same project back in the 90s. Used pretty much the same materials and techniques as you but mine wasn't rotted quite as far. I got lucky, I actually found the inner webbing for the helmet at a local military surplus shop. One thing that I would have done differently if I were you was to use the correct color which would have been olive drab. The best part about it was, I picked it up at a yard sale in Manchester Maryland for about $2 and the woman thought it was a hanging planted Potter.

[@shirleyannconfer9651]

Nice work. I love restoration/repair videos.

[@michaelhughes7718]

Used to see these helmets a lot as a kid in the 70s used as kitchen bowls or flower pots.

[@vinceianni4026]

Beautiful restoration L&R good job well done

[@tomswindler64]

Very nice job.keeping history alive.kudos 👍👍👍😎😎😎

[@brendaowens2466]

That was an outstanding job.

[@russhoffman6301]

Fantastic work to get something that old & the condition it was in to what it looks like finished

[@lorrainemclay3343]

Fantastic work. You are a master craftsman 👏👏👏😀🌈👏👏👏

[@PerfectRestore]

Great video! Very good work! Easy to watch!!! Thanks! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@bigboy9706]

Very fantastic restoration

[@Seahorse1414]

Lovely job !

[@konstantinkurochkin5695]

Great work!

[@T_B]

Pretty impressive restoration!

[@markdidsbury3626]

Helmet came out Beautiful !!!!!!!

[@LittleRestorers]

Excellent- Good call on changing the colour 👌

[@-Deena.]

Glad you changed the colour. Good call and great work 🧡

[@laurentdevaux5617]

The problem is, even being changed, the color is still not good...

[@pufito]

PERFECT.!!

[@terrystover7365]

Very impressive restoration.

[@razorboyXVII]

Great restoration!

[@restorationmania]

Great job 👍 well done. Keep up the good work

[@rodeastell3615]

Great job.

[@RestorationAustralia]

Super cool, well done.👍

[@erwinhoes5090]

Splendit restoration. absoluteley beautifiul

[@Fellipe_S]

Amazing

[@IGYOIOI]

Beautiful raw edge Brodie

[@jeremycoleman318]

Well done sir

[@Alejandromundial.]

very good job, congratulations. greetings from Argentina

[@gregtheredneck1715]

Well, that turned out better than I anticipated. Looks great! Out of curiosity, how long did it take for the hand sanding?

[@sashamirzayans8465]

Nice and neat!

[@suejenkins6005]

Hi another absolutely superb restoration well done xx♥️♥️👵🏻👴🏻🐶🐾🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@some1funny28]

Wow WW1! I thought of Bettel Bailey's helmet at the end lol. But this is a great restoration from true history! Great job on this epic history shine!🌟 Great work! OMgosh I'm so impressed 😁

[@varmintGrant90]

Fr my man does everything To restore

[@aarondwyer3746]

Thumbs up ,you did a good job I'm impressed

[@nordicson2835]

Great that you saved it. It would be great if it could talk , the stories it might tell.

[@gazlyno]

Great job, might be a mk2 British/Canadian Brodie Helmet. Glad you changed your mind on the colour, lol Thanks for sharing

[@Hamptonacres1]

Nice job, I restore military helmets. One thing you may want to consider is instead of using regular body putty use the metal putty instead. US chemical makes an all metal putty and Bondo does as well.

[@vicente2955]

Muy buena restauracion maestro 🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@rutikuiwa7133]

Very good job

[@zou6492]

Another beatiful restoration 👍👏🪖 Congratulations and Greetings from Belgium 😉🇧🇪🖐️

[@carrestore]

Great video 👍

[@user-dz8dg6ey8g]

Лайк за классную работу. Реставрация шлема на все 💯. Спасибо за видос.

[@andreysever417]

Великолепно! Спасибо!

[@19Bmiller]

Very nice

[@adriamiraguilar]

Perfecto !!

[@mskayla7747]

Nicely done. But I think you should have modeled the finished product for us. 😊

[@hax9872]

Beautiful restoration work but the English helmet ww1 if I do not talk nonsense was mainly brown or see even tan dark to stick as close as possible to the original color in any case very very nice good work

[@lindawallace6750]

C O O L !!!

[@condar419]

Great job. Negative three points for the “hol(e)y” pun 🤣🤣🤣

[@quocthanhtran5199]

It’s perfect

[@lucialima781]

Ficou show❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@2ndparatrooperDivision]

where did you fill the holes with?

[@julienghanadan8311]

Great job on ww1 rusty and broken British helmet - 100 year old restoration lost and restored 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@RelaxingRestoration]

you should have tried it on at the end of the video!

[@diogomartinssilva6727]

Top 👏👏👏🔥⚡

[@albert8360]

Nice work! where did you get those Web Kit straps???

[@re-fix9678]

good

[@BellaLin-ds1yr]

WOW😮

[@npfrestoration]

Great job

[@CJ_7519]

"Ready for duty, sir"🪖!

[@darlong9917]

never seen a tan one most were olive green or bluish gray good job

[@user-me5hz7lb4f]

Hi can you link the screws that look like rivets

[@iwasglad122]

Known as the 'Brodie' helmet, unless I'm mistaken. Have restored a dozen of them myself from the Home Front of WW2.

[@matiasandresalvarez2370]

Hermoso el brody

[@justinnoe5753]

I would've left the holes there because it looks cool

[@kevinfoster926]

When we were kids we'd wear these from our fathers from WWII when playing war games, mine was blue as my father was in the Royal Navy.............but with the same green strap.

[@galinapatey9371]

Великолепно 👏👏👏👏👏

[@Arandomperson-ib4gb]

Hello there Russian

[@galinapatey9371]

@@Arandomperson-ib4gb Привет 👋

[@user-dr3dr6do5o]

Just a question...would the nuts not be square instead of hex nuts??

[@user-zb7cq4xe1v]

Супер😮

[@user-gx1bm5fc2x]

В музей👍

[@JessicaSmith-nm5xc]

I personally found that hole pun funny

[@JessicaSmith-nm5xc]

And i can tell by the look of the holes it saw some combat, for sure

[@tnt1633]

I acualy found a turtle shell helmet at a goodwill sadly it did not have the guts in it but it has the original green paint but it has a few dent's on the dome of it been holding on to it to restore it 1 day

[@BritishMilitaria]

Not certain but I believe because of the lack of a rim this is a ww1 helmet

[@laurentdevaux5617]

Nice job indeed on the shell, but the result is by no means realistic. Since you found a Brodie helmet, why didn't you restore it as a ww1 Brodie ? More, the color is wrong and much too glossy, and the chinstrap was attached with rivets (split, for the original Brodie) and not with screws. You have a real talent, it's quite a pity you didn't use it better...

[@theorystep]

I always wondered why these restoring guys use alot of chemicals instead of just sandblasting it. I feel like it would take off all the layers of dirt grime and rust. There has to be a reason why.

[@samgri_militaria]

Because they dont want to take of the paint

[@rab7034]

You should have used "flat" finish paint!

[@johanjanssens4530]

This is an original Elbonian army helmet !

[@ChristiaanHarkink]

Vakkundig om zeep geholpen.

[@user-ts3ib8gx4r]

Оу! Британочка. Там очень интересная сталь. Немагнитная. У меня есть такая в хорошей сохранности. Только у моей каски ремешок обычный брезентовый. Без резинок. И амортизатор подшлемника новодельный. Не оригинальный.

[@josuawilkins6744]

One thing that the helmet is missing is the rim which has looks like it fell off. Look at original pictures of helmets and you will see the rim.

[@cubuna]

I think this is a clickbait where did u get that comfort black attachment and the belt

[@Ikari-kun]

2:33 español?

[@andysanger7723]

No rust protection at any stage the chin strap brackets should be painted and rivertied in place

[@AngeloCatubig]

Its a brodie helmet omg 😱 Bro said brodie incorrect 0:32 0:52 brodie helmet has shrapnel

[@Anakoicer]

Лет через 5 несчищенная ржавчина поднимет шпаклевку и отвалится вместе с ней. Надо было кислотить до чистого металла.

[@fumesniff]

if a magnet sticks to this it was made before 1916

[@ericbaillie1098]

Why?

[@TheBradinator214]

Here's an idea. Just paint it the original color so it looks good 🤯

[@Wrld-coryxkenshin]

It looks just a little rusty at the start

[@TheParkAttendant]

I have just such a helmet and is in much worse shape than yours. It shows were a bullet dinged off it. It's the other story it has to tell. It was slammed over a grenade! I fear this hero died in the attempt, as the top was blasted out. I am preserving it as is, so this story can continue to be retold.