Attaching hand armor and thermal detonators

[Moff Man]

Hey Gang,

Was just wondering what are the different ways you attach both the hand armor and the detonators. As of now i have an elastic strap attached to the armor that slips around my hand , it does the job but is a little sloppy and i find myself adjusting it a lot. Can you just attach it to the glove itself? and what would you use?

Second item is i have velcro holding my detonator on and i know i should switch to the metal clips. Where do you get those at?

I think those are the last 2 items on my tweak list


Moff man

[Wags]

This is what I did for my handplates. Granted, Im a clone, but it should work for a TK. These are nyeodimium magnets. They work really well.

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z9/t ... G_1466.jpg

As for the TD I am still working on mine

[Terrell78]

For the detenator use the 7/8 wide holster clips from Tandy leather.

[Moff Man]

For the detenator use the 7/8 wide holster clips from Tandy leather.

is this online? or a brick and mortor store?

[Terrell78]

is this online? or a brick and mortor store?

Both they have a store in Westland, and a website.

[Kal]

go to a office max or what ever and ask for Bankers Clasps

[Terrell78]

go to a office max or what ever and ask for Bankers Clasps

Heads up. They are online only items now for Staples and Office Depot. Office Max never carried them in store.

[Moff Man]

go to a office max or what ever and ask for Bankers Clasps

Heads up. They are online only items now for Staples and Office Depot. Office Max never carried them in store.

Dude you are like the freaking Star wars costume guru.

[Blizz]

For the detenator use the 7/8 wide holster clips from Tandy leather.

is this online? or a brick and mortor store?

If you can't find them over there, let me know. I have a Tandy Leather store right down the street from my work. I could pick them up for you!

[TK471]

For my thermal detonator, I've used the bankers clips, I lined them with soft-side velcro to add some 'thickness' for a better grip. My belt is duck cotton, so it wraps around those. Sometimes, it gets tucked into my back armor (kidney and butt plates are seperated), there's some velcro leftover from an old mod inside, and it gets caught on that, which isn't necessarily bad.

For my hands, I bought some Harbinger canoe/kayak gloves, which have a closure strap on the back, near the wrists. I put a button snap in the strap, with the button snap back, adhered inside the bottom of the hand armor plate. That snaps to the strap, and then I have an elastic loop that goes around the palm of my hand.

I'll try to get pics of the hand armor today.
Here's some of the detonator:




And the section of black velcro, you can see in this pic, where it sometimes gets tucked into unintentionally.

[Moff Man]

Thanks guys , I will have to just stick to the velcro for this weekends troops cause i am running out of time. Pete , you can show the hand armor tomorrow in Novi. Oh i got the fans yesterday and installed 2 in my MRce and it works great, i will bring the bucket with me. Blizz, thanks for the offer and if i don't find any by the time we meet up i will take you up on that offer.


Moff Man cometh.

[TK471]

Here's a picture of how I modded my hand armor. There's a strap with velcro that goes around the palm. The snap keeps the bottom of the hand plate in place.