Diy Bullet Proof Ceramic Plates

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. This thing is heavy. The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate. Shooting the diy plate armor. As a commercial domestic bullet proof system manufacturer jim richards isn t all that impressed with ceramics.

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. Shooting the diy plate armor the second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate. Cut the fiberglass into 8 by 96 inch wide strips on a board covered with saran wrap. Allow it to cure for three days.

The cost for this was around 30. I used a steel i beam piece a ceramic floor tile duck tape and a can of plastidip. 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.

In a shtf i would wear one of my diy ballistic plates over wearing nothing. 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. 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.

You start with plain white ceramic plates and use gold markers and gold star stickers to embellish them. Only when an extremely low weight is required e g. For personal protec tion or for helicopters silicon carbide materials may be used. 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.

No bullets got through the plate. These small cracks can drastically decrease the integrity of the plate and reduce its chances of defeating multiple rounds. For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent. 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.

And tough as a hell.