Preservation Very Rusty German Luftwaffe Helmet M40 ET64 - Restoration Project 

Always happy to see a preservation instead of a full restoration. Great job!

I had always heard that the original German helmet decals were tough, but the fact that this Luftwaffe decal stayed on through all those years of moisture and rusting is amazing!

If anyone wants to know what a tough restoration looks like. Here it is. Absolute stunning job.

Very sympathetic preservation job. I thought that you might have gone for a full restoration but in my opinion, what you have done is better.

Просто фантастика!чуствуется знаток своего дела.Жаль что в молодости 80-90г.XXвека мы считали что такие шлемы безнадёжно пропавшими и небрали!Благодарю автора за данное видео,получил удовольствие смотреть его работой и мастерством.

Thank you for conserving rather than restoring that artifact.

This man knows what he is doing! Love it!

Just watched this and the other video of the restored helmet you welded from two parts. I’ll start by saying you’re far better at this than me! I have attempted with varying degrees of success to preserve different things over the years. I was wondering if you had ever used ospho, and your opinion of it. I used it on a large enamel petrol sign with many spots of rust, and it did a beautiful job of turning the rust into black primer, while leaving the enamel intact. Also used it on an old wheel barrow and it preserved the paint while neutralizing the rust. Only suggestion I might dare offer you on this helmet is the part where you used the pick to remove the heavy chunks of rust. I’m thinking perhaps a small hammer and a chisel might better direct the force where it is desired, but I don’t discount the idea that you may have considered this and have a reason not to use that method. Amazing work you do and I enjoy watching. Thanks for producing these clips.

Just found this …….Wow!, bringing out the authenticity is so much more effective than a complete “like new” restoration. Excellent job.

INCREDIBLE HELMET..👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤗😑

Incredible job with the restoration. The fact that most of the surface remaining intact after all of this time is astounding. Those old helmets were definitely built to last! I wonder if there was a name inscribed somewhere? I absolute love how you handled this restoration with extra care and delicacy. I imagine this would be a potential museum piece somewhere? :)

Ese casco no quedo bien , con acido puro se le cae el oxido totalmente

What a beautiful job, this us absolutely amazing and saving a piece of history albeit a horrible reminder of terrible times.

Good job, and nice helmet 👍

Great technique. I prefer preservation over restoration!!

Mire todo el video y quedó igual 😑

Why Paraloid B72 on the metal strip but candle wax on the helmet? And why did you change from a solution of micro-crystalline wax to candlewax? I have been reading about conservation of metals and would like to know your (practical) opinion. Thank you for the videos.

At the end of the war the Americans dynamited all the German bunkers so they couldn't regroup and keep the war going. In 1971 to 1973 my dad was stationed at Zweibrucken Air Station in Germany, and we went with him. As we were moving back to the U.S. a new bank was being built on base. While digging the foundation a previously unknown bunker was discovered. It was like a time capsule. German weapons and uniforms with skeletal remains were found. A particular helmet was found with a bullet hole and blood stains.

Отличная работа. Только каски люфтваффе не заслуживают такой чести. Найдите советскую каску и восстановите

from the holes in the helmet I sense that this soldier got what he deserved 😂

Stick it in a 3 gallon bucket of evaporust, worked great on my resto.

German technology throughout the 1800s and early 1900s were supreme.

Got the same luftwaffe helmet M40, nice to see someone do the totally same :D

I Would use A sponge liner for the inside ..That metal headrest looks rough..

М-да... А ведь я застал время, когда эти горшки стояли столбиками , один на другом, на берегах озёр на севере со всеми этими эмблемами и "рогами"

Very well done. Amazed that you managed to preserve the original decal!

Fantastic work, so glad you didn't sand blast it and paint with Rustoleum!

Wow a very nice cleaning job. On the actual German helmet. 😂

Дружище,когда консервируешь,проще возьми безцветный обувной воск,он и втирается лучше и греть ничего не надо.эффект тот же самый что и от свечки

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Du bist noch nicht fertig Bruder!! haha du bist ein talentierter, geduldiger Kunstler...gut gemacht!

Beautiful job. RIP to all german heroes

Болгарку использовать для этого нужно будет

The video (14.40) shows a half of a personal medallion. Half means that the non-commissioned officer broke the medallion in half after the death of a soldier. He took half with him for reporting, and inserted the other half into the teeth of the deceased (the skull is the least susceptible to decomposition). Usually, when such medallions are found, it is customary to give them to German veteran organizations with an indication of the place of discovery, so that they inform their relatives that the place of death of their relative has been found. At least this is standard practice for historical search clubs.

I got that same type of helmet and it also luftwaffe

A true preservation, some replace the helmet with filler and paint, destroying the authenticity, this is very well done.

Excelente trabajo; gracias por compartir

Sorry im not satisfied ...with your restoration....🤔

I like a guy that keeps his helmet clean.

Good job just the right amount of sympathy 👍🏻 👌

As a museum professional I would suggest that what you did was a nice job of “restoring” the helmet. “Preservation” is keeping the patina of an artifact with very little intervention. “Conservation” is maintaining the original found condition with additional steps to prevent further deterioration.

Não ficou novinho mas pelo menos está 100% original

Hail to heroes!

GREAT JOB. Greetings FROM GERMANY.

We are gaining knowledge

Woah the helmet better than mine i have that helm

the helm ii good rusty..... i like the rusty in helmed but, i dont like your proces cleaning with water.......i like clean with scrub and with hammer to first bro...👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

the relics of war - the futility of war

Просто чудеса!из личинки шлем превратился в прекрасную бабочку!золотые руки мастер👍

Минус. работа не доделана. Minus. the work is not finished.

I enjoyed this. The person doing this restoration looked like they knew what they were doing. So many of these RU-vid restoration videos are done in a ham-fisted way, where they do more harm than good to the artifact. Excellent work!

I see alot of people saying cause the decal is still there its fake, No The decal can stay onto the helmet for atleast 120 years, It will start its decaying process around the 75 Year mark, but it will still be on the helmet.

I enjoyed watching you restore this historical helmet. You saved it.... Good job indeed.......

О реставрируй немецкую складную лопату пожалуйста, лайкос

Just found your channel I love world war relics being restored the right way I go metal detecting and I've got tonnes and tonnes of bags full of stuff going back to early civilization they just keep mounting up been detecting for 35 years that's probably why..SUBBED 👍

Not Good restoration. Honestly sorry, could not have done.

Fine restoration through chemistry….and elbow grease.👍🏼

Great job. I'm happy to see it wasn't sandblasted, filled with body filler and repainted.

The man who wore this helmet, loved, laughed, danced, cried, had a mother may be a father, maybe had brothers and sisters and grandma and grandpa. He was loved. He may have been married with children. So who are we to say that he was less than human? Because he was the German, because he believed in Hitler‘s ideology? I don’t know I don’t know the man. But we do know he was a human and all humans have those traits. 80 years gone it’s a blessing. They’re all dying by the thousands about 3000 a day Americans that is

Do you feel this is a restoration!? Inner rim was fitted without any sort of treatment. So much of rust was still left on the surface. Poor finishing. Wasted my time.

I've just cleaned a M40 helmet in Oxalic acid and there seems to be a lot of black paint work showing (especially when it's wet). Under the liner, where that was you can see it the best. Would this have been SS ? Still really rusty, and no sign of any decal...

Beat rust stripper...molasses and water...10:1 ratio and wait..I do antique car parts that way .takes a long time but it won't need blasting. Rinse off with water..dry quickly n paint.

I'm Very lucky to HAVE Some ww2 GERMAN Medals..1 Luftwaffe and 2 Paratrooper and the IRON CROSS 1939..

The paint and decal surviving under THAT much rust was indeed unbelievable. I don't believe it for one. Something very fishy here, starting with the orange colour of the rust - it's new rust. Why is that do you think!

It's not restoration it's called cleaning

I know very little about restoration BUT I'd be very curious to know what electrolysis could have done in this case. Nothing was going to save the eagle but electrolysis would have gotten ALL of the rust.

Still like fucked up lol 😂

That’s a hard restoration

You need to put the german helmet in the sand blaster from paul chApman

There was a man in Småland Sweden that had thousands and thousands of these helmets that he bought from gross sellers in Germany 1947. Some still there I think.

Germam tem mi ha. Admiração,,sou facinado por esse. País 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Not many veterans left from ww2 this helmet tells stories about what happened in ww2. Beautifully preserved.

Ты лучше бы, г-н талантливый реставратор, так нежно, с такой любовью и тщательностью русскую, советскую какску реставрировал. А в этой каске, может быть нацистский озверевший садист уничтожал миллионы людей в Бухенвальде, Освенциме или Саласпилсе. Или сжигал людей, запертых в сарае в деревнях России, Белорусии или Украины. Что, скажешь это не может быть?! Было, было.

Saludos desde Guadalajara Jalisco México 😎👍

Io sto restaurando un elmetto austriaco della 2º Guerra Mondiale. Posso sapere se dopo averlo trattato con il liquido verde quanto lo fai stare nell’acido ossalico per la seconda volta?…io ho gia fatto 12 ore di acido ossalico. Grazie mille e attendo risposta. Sei bravissimo!

Pésima restauración

I saw an old as helmet at an estate auction, almost this rusty , it had ss on one side, the other side was bare, it sold for $300. A plain iron cross went for $80

It was F'ed up when he goes and makes his own solution. But then it gets even more F'ed up when it doesn't do anything. Would have rather watched someone who really knew what they were doing. He has to be the least entertaining person on the internet.

Do you ever wonder about the person this belonged to? Did they die in battle? What were their last thoughts? Was there anyone to miss them?

Lovely job

hello. it is not a reconstruction, but a chemical cleaning of the corroded coating, and very imprecise. very poor job in my opinion, using chemical solutions only to reduce corrosion.

Видео нужно было назвать "как испортить перспективный шлем"...

Thanks for not sandblasting the surface. Not new but well used in it time. Great job

تكلمون جميعا عن اعادة الخوذه وعن ترميمها ونسيتم الطلقه التي اخترقت رأس الجندي من المسؤول ومن صاحب الذنب في هذه الحروب

To destroy rust bubbles more effectively like in 11:00 buy welder's hammer

A restoration like should be all restorations IMO

Congratulations on the achieved effect.

I would have thought the severity of the rust had compromised the integrity of the helmet to the point where it had become so brittle as to just fall apart. If only tat helmet could talk, I bet it would have quite the story to tell.

Is there anyone here who knows what cleaning agent he is using I’m restoring a helmet like this with lime scale and don’t know what to use please help thanks

Más o meno he 🤔

Are there ways to remove the wax to take another acid bath? I already coated the helmet in wax but realized it would need a new acid wash

Full of rust on his helmet, very old

It's funny how all combat helmets look like the german WW2 Stahlhelm now.

You could get a chlean army stahlhelm (mint condition), they are very look alike

Hello and congratulations on your fantastic work! Can I ask you what is the spray you sprayed in the lid to give it on the decal at minute 4.20 and what is the green liquid inside the long neck bottle at minute 5.40? Thank you, I would love to learn from your tricks thanks, a greeting. Mike

Good job bro...👍👍

Pensaba si la restauración hubiera sido aplicando con el método de arenado hubiera sido más rápido

Really? Looks like an average job to me

What is the difference between M40 and M35???

Amazing