I don't know what brought on his tirade, and I don't want to know, :shrug: but something tells me it's probably best to just let it die peacefully.
Sorry, but I side with the folks who say that 67 pages of instructions on a helmet is the problem. I'd like to ask you - can you honestly say you would have read all 67 or more pages yourself before using the helmet? Or before using what it generally regarded as a cleaner that is commonly bought and used for cleaning windshields to clean it without sorting through 67 pages?
I just bought a new car. I'm not exaggerating this - it has four owners manuals that all told are nearly a thousand pages. What do you thing is our responsibility for reading all of it before operating our vehicle?
It's disappointing -- but not surprising -- to see the tenor of the responses about this incident.
The evasion of personal responsibility lies behind most of the problems we face today. Consider the economic catastrophe we're facing, because of our natural inclination to delegate the big-picture stuff to someone else while we go about the business of living our own lives.
The result of forgetting that we're --you, me, us -- responsible for the affairs of the country led to the creation of Mordor-On-The-Potomac, where flaky, criminal, irresponsible bozos have created policies that are destroying this country. Sure, we can point fingers at the various individual bozos and cluck that they should have done better. But the ultimate responsibility is ours. And I'm just as guilty as anyone for not paying enough attention to the economic, moral and political mess we're in.
It's no less true for the matter of a $40 pinlock visor. The OP didn't do his homework. Yes, it is Your Responsibility to read some or all of the manual if you need to know something about your helmet.
When I was curious about cleaning the visors in my new C3 I didn't just whip out my Plexus or 210 or 0000 steel wool or whatever, I pulled the manual out, looked up the subject in the table of contents, turned to the page and read the short note about cleaning.
Didn't read all 67 pages, just the one that applied. What an imposition, eh?
For a $700 helmet you can bet I'll read the manual before cleaning the visor, or removing the visor, or doing anything at all with the visor. Hell, I may throw caution to the winds and read it twice!
If you screw up a visor, buy a new one. Don't try to shift blame to someone else. I'll own up to butchering my first C2 in an attempt to install a headset; I still hear about that one from my wife. But I didn't blame Schuberth, Extreme Supply or Autocom. I gritted my teeth and bought a new helmet. I was less than happy about the situation, but I also knew who was responsible for it.
Your GL1800 owner's manual has many more pages than the C3 manual. Is that too many to read?
How many oil threads have there been in the life of this forum because people are apparently incapable of reading? After all, since 30W worked fine in the '54 Ford I learned to drive in, why shouldn't it work in the Wing? Oil is oil, right?
Manual, schmanuals, who needs 'em? Real men don't read manuals or even just the relevant parts, do they?
No, they blunder ahead and when the predictable occurs, they whine, cry and hire a lawyer.
I hope this answers your question to your satisfaction, Larry.
jjsC6, if the "tirade" above doesn't make clear my thoughts on the subject, the short answer is of course you are responsible for all of the information about your car. It's your car, isn't it? Who else would be responsible?
P.S. The airplane I currently fly has a manual with probably a couple of thousand pages. The company doesn't even provide paper copies and all the binders anymore; the revisions are on CD now.
A lot of that is tables of performance data that's incorporated into the performance computers we use, but there are many hundreds of pages of systems operations and flight operations.
Which of those am I entitled to blow off? Because it's just too much trouble to read all that boring stuff? And could you give me that in writing to show a check airman or FAA inspector? Thanks.