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