Mix polyresin and the hardener and pour it over the ceramic tile plate and sheet metal ensuring that the sheet metal is placed on the bottom of the mold.
Diy bullet proof ceramic plates.
Cut the fiberglass into 8 by 96 inch wide strips on a board covered with saran wrap.
The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate.
Only when an extremely low weight is required e g.
And tough as a hell.
These small cracks can drastically decrease the integrity of the plate and reduce its chances of defeating multiple rounds.
Once you heat these in the oven to set in the design they will stay designed for years and you can do them in various different colors if you want just use different colored markers.
Allow it to cure for three days.
In a shtf i would wear one of my diy ballistic plates over wearing nothing.
You start with plain white ceramic plates and use gold markers and gold star stickers to embellish them.
For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent.
Shooting the diy plate armor.
I used a steel i beam piece a ceramic floor tile duck tape and a can of plastidip.
The cost for this was around 30.
A thick ballistic steel plate over level iiia armor is also considered to be effective as level iii armor against light rifle fire.
Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it.
Ceramic plates fail to offer the weight advantages and ease of handling fabricators and installers enjoy with fiberglass based bullet proof panels.
Level iv multi hit rifle ceramic body armor plates use a monolithic piece of ceramic that can produce small cracks throughout the body armor plate when hit by an m2ap round.
Is the preeminent ceramic armor material for ve hicular applications.
As a commercial domestic bullet proof system manufacturer jim richards isn t all that impressed with ceramics.
Simple diy painted plates.
Shooting the diy plate armor the second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate.
In this video i show you the complete process i use to make a curved ballistic plate insert that could be used in a plate carrier.
The ceramic tile was demolished.
For personal protec tion or for helicopters silicon carbide materials may be used.
Beside these qualities other ceramic materials have also been considered and were examined intensive ly for the purpose of ballistic.
