Very inexpensive helmet stands

[Cenobyte]

I was in Wal-Mart and spotted these paper towel holders and it really looked like a helmet stand.

(Thinking back, I vaguely remember reading about this a while ago)

I bought one for $9.98 I believe and brought it home.
What you need to do is get the bottom off off it. (I cracked mine, but you cannot see it as it is the bottom that sits on the table anyway)
When you get the bottom removed, you will see the arm attached with a spring and a pin.
Pull the pin and the spring and remove the arm.
Voila!! A $10 helmet stand.
Thought this would be good for us that have a lot of helmets, but not the funds to buy the MR or custom stands.
Here is the paper that was attached to it..

Here is what it looks like with the arm removed..

And here it is with a trooper bucket on it..

 

[Neon Sentry]

Pics?

 

[Cenobyte]

Pics?

There are 3 pics in the thread.

Not sure why you cannot see them. hmmmmm

 

[Neon Sentry]

PeerGuardian isn't throwing up any red flags (which us what usually happens when images don't load for me) and I'm not seeing any image urls when I quote your post.

 

[Montagar]

There are 3 pics in the thread.

Not sure why you cannot see them. hmmmmm

Can't see them either.

 

[teecrooz]

I see them just fine.

 

[Darth Clouds]

What others did was to add a foam ball at the top of the pole and pad the foam ball with felt.

 

[Cenobyte]

Weird.

Here are direct links for those that cannot see the images.

http://bdegeilh.mystarband.net/towelholder1.jpg

http://bdegeilh.mystarband.net/towelholder2.jpg

http://bdegeilh.mystarband.net/towelholder3.jpg

 

[Montagar]

I needed to change that backwards slash to a forward slash, and remove the end forward slash in the links. That is the only way that I was able to use the links you just posted.

It ended up looking like this:

http://bdegeilh.mystarband.net/towelholder1.jpg

It's a Firefox/IE thing (the pics and links work for IE but not for Firefox).

 

[Montagar]

I found the problem... you have a backslash in your links and original post. Technically that is not allowed, but it looks like IE just converts it to a forward slash, whereas Firefox tries to use what you typed.

http://bdegeilh.mystarband.net\towelholder1.jpg (incorrect)

http://bdegeilh.mystarband.net/towelholder1.jpg (correct)

...and in your direct links you placed a forward slash at the end which also doesn't work because that makes the filename a sub-folder which cannot be found.

.

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

I found the problem... you have a backslash in your links and original post. Technically that is not allowed, but it looks like IE just converts it to a forward slash, whereas Firefox tries to use what you typed.

http://bdegeilh.mystarband.net\towelholder1.jpg (incorrect)

http://bdegeilh.mystarband.net/towelholder1.jpg (correct)

...and in your direct links you placed a forward slash at the end which also doesn't work because that makes the filename a sub-folder which cannot be found.

.

I was just gonna say it was a FireFox thing, because on my home PC, I see it just fine. My work PC uses FireFox and I cain't see a thang!

 

[DarkHelmet]

I found those at Walmart too.

Got a couple of them.

 

[stormtrooperguy]

Technically that is not allowed, but it looks like IE just converts it to a forward slash, whereas Firefox tries to use what you typed.

yup... msie allows backslashes so that people can reference local filesystem files. stupid browser.

but back on topic, definitely a cool looking holder!

 

[Cenobyte]

I fixed the slashes. I did not even realize I had them backwards as they showed for me

Sorry about that fellas