Ceramic plates fail to offer the weight advantages and ease of handling fabricators and installers enjoy with fiberglass based bullet proof panels.
Diy bullet proof ceramic plates.
In a shtf i would wear one of my diy ballistic plates over wearing nothing.
The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate.
The cost for this was around 30.
This thing is heavy.
These small cracks can drastically decrease the integrity of the plate and reduce its chances of defeating multiple rounds.
Beside these qualities other ceramic materials have also been considered and were examined intensive ly for the purpose of ballistic.
Is the preeminent ceramic armor material for ve hicular applications.
No bullets got through the plate.
Only when an extremely low weight is required e g.
And tough as a hell.
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.
For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent.
Shooting the diy plate armor.
Cut the fiberglass into 8 by 96 inch wide strips on a board covered with saran wrap.
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.
Shooting the diy plate armor the second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate.
Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it.
A thick ballistic steel plate over level iiia armor is also considered to be effective as level iii armor against light rifle fire.
You start with plain white ceramic plates and use gold markers and gold star stickers to embellish them.
Allow it to cure for three days.
For personal protec tion or for helicopters silicon carbide materials may be used.
As a commercial domestic bullet proof system manufacturer jim richards isn t all that impressed with ceramics.
Simple diy painted plates.
I used a steel i beam piece a ceramic floor tile duck tape and a can of plastidip.
In my own testing i was able to shoot a 5 56mm rifle round through a ballistic steel plate which would tend to invalidate it for body armor.
