is there vinyl out there that uses a water based adhesive?

[Martin Armitage]

The avery 600hp has an acrylic based adhesive. We use this for all our helmet labels. There seem to be no vinyls out there that are recommended to be used on any form of safety helmet and from my own research into this i have been told that most vinyls are probably ok to use. It seems to be a throw back to the days when plastics used were alot less stable than those used now. Although information supplied with helmets that i have looked at say that no vinyls should be placed on helmets and that any vinyl would have to be tested for the lifetime of the helmet to ascertain suitability. For that reason we use an acrylic based adhesive but provide no guaranties to suitability.

[Shane Drew]

Plenty of the cheaper vinyls use water based adhesives, but as has been said, most helmet manufacturers will limit their liability by not warranting the product with stickers on them. That said, heaps of racing car drivers will stick advertising on the helmets, and no one says anything, certainly no rules and regs by the racing authorities anyway.

[David Rogers]

Ritrama 400 series is water-based. (5-7yr)

Use it all day every day and is a nice product to work with.

‘William Smith’ is my distributor.

Dave

ps. That said – even permanent acrylic adhesives won’t affect them to any extent.

Warranties tend to voided though if ANYTHING is applied to them.

[dcurzon]

ah, thanks all 🙂

definitely worth looking into a bit further – acu ‘approved’ helmets come with an acu sticker and race clubs apply a small sticker after scrutineering a helmet, so cant do them too much harm… 🙂

[Marcella Ross]

I’ve used Avery 600 on helmets also.

[Peter Mindham]

We use oracal 751 on our helmets

No probs so far

Peter

[david welch]

Avery 600 or any of theJac products

[dcurzon]

sorry to forget to re-post on here… 🙂 thanks again, i used jac serical, same as i use for, errr, everything else!