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

[@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 ❤

[@FouripilerYT]

What a wonderful grandfather 👴

[@dd52161]

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.

[@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.

[@Immortal-Headcase]

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.

[@PGoodmanCOG]

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

[@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.

[@-Deena.]

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

[@laurentdevaux5617]

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

[@couchbear6108]

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

[@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.

[@RasEli03]

What kind of material did you use to fill holes and smooth out the helmet?

[@gregtheredneck1715]

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

[@vinceianni4026]

Beautiful restoration L&R good job well done

[@markdidsbury3626]

Helmet came out Beautiful !!!!!!!

[@bigboy9706]

Very fantastic restoration

[@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

[@mullerpotgieter]

Beautifully done.

[@russhoffman6301]

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

[@julienghanadan8311]

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

[@lorrainemclay3343]

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

[@LittleRestorers]

Excellent- Good call on changing the colour 👌

[@pufito]

PERFECT.!!

[@IGYOIOI]

Beautiful raw edge Brodie

[@Alejandromundial.]

very good job, congratulations. greetings from Argentina

[@nordicson2835]

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

[@Seahorse1414]

Lovely job !

[@shirleyannconfer9651]

Nice work. I love restoration/repair videos.

[@erwinhoes5090]

Splendit restoration. absoluteley beautifiul

[@konstantinkurochkin5695]

Great work!

[@brendaowens2466]

That was an outstanding job.

[@gazlyno]

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

[@tomswindler64]

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

[@ВикторГалянин]

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

[@re-fix9678]

good

[@razorboyXVII]

Great restoration!

[@PerfectRestore]

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

[@terrystover7365]

Very impressive restoration.

[@T_B]

Pretty impressive restoration!

[@zou6492]

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

[@vicente2955]

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

[@restorationmania]

Great job 👍 well done. Keep up the good work

[@aarondwyer3746]

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

[@RestorationAustralia]

Super cool, well done.👍

[@rodeastell3615]

Great job.

[@jeremycoleman318]

Well done sir

[@carrestore]

Great video 👍

[@Fellipe_S]

Amazing

[@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.

[@andreysever417]

Великолепно! Спасибо!

[@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

[@rutikuiwa7133]

Very good job

[@Immortal-Headcase]

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

[@sashamirzayans8465]

Nice and neat!

[@mskayla7747]

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

[@suejenkins6005]

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

[@lindawallace6750]

C O O L !!!

[@galinapatey9371]

Великолепно 👏👏👏👏👏

[@FouripilerYT]

Hello there Russian

[@galinapatey9371]

@@FouripilerYT Привет 👋

[@RasEli03]

Do you have a list of the products you used to fill the holes of the helmet?

[@Arnold-g6z]

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

[@quocthanhtran5199]

It’s perfect

[@19Bmiller]

Very nice

[@npfrestoration]

Great job

[@lucialima781]

Ficou show❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@adriamiraguilar]

Perfecto !!

[@albert8360]

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

[@justinnoe5753]

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

[@KyleSwanson-u9g]

Hi can you link the screws that look like rivets

[@CJ_7519]

"Ready for duty, sir"🪖!

[@RelaxingRestoration]

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

[@2ndparatrooperDivision]

where did you fill the holes with?

[@BrittanyTarango]

I have a British or Canadian ww2 helmet because it has the thing around it. But it is dented and has some holes. But it still has the original paint. I only got it for 50 bucks. I think that is a good deal. Right?

[@BellaLin-ds1yr]

WOW😮

[@Фунт-й1н]

В музей👍

[@condar419]

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

[@matiasandresalvarez2370]

Hermoso el brody

[@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.

[@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...

[@Amcool1918]

Honestly sometimes the helmets were semi glossy but it is totally unrealistic for it to still have most of the paint with no rust

[@darlong9917]

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

[@diogomartinssilva6727]

Top 👏👏👏🔥⚡

[@iwasglad122]

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

[@JenFoto]

I have one myself that I'm planning to restore, may I ask what colour you used?

[@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

[@АнлрейКривошей]

Супер😮

[@MrGreenPumpkin]

Maybe Lost Ruined is a real name of the channel.

[@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

[@johanjanssens4530]

This is an original Elbonian army helmet !

[@rab7034]

You should have used "flat" finish paint!

[@BritishMilitaria]

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

[@jfek2653]

Oof, I can smell that Bondo through the computer screen. I hope you have a exhaust fan in your workshop. 😬😬

[@АлексейКолпаков-о2х]

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.

[@Menace_0]

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

[@andysanger7723]

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

[@mattbannan637]

NICE, VERY NICE...DOES THIS RESTORATION MAKE THE VALUE OF THE HELMET GO UP, DOWN OR STAY THE SAME???

[@slashgigawon]

use your brain

[@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.

[@TheBradinator214]

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

[@one1charlie643]

I don't think its 100 years old. this one doesn't have a rim on it which would make it the Australian version made under license. production commenced in 1939 and 2 million were produced.

[@ColoringAHouse]

It literally said "WW2" in the title.

[@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