Diy Bullet Proof Ceramic Plates

As a commercial domestic bullet proof system manufacturer jim richards isn t all that impressed with ceramics.

Diy bullet proof ceramic plates.

Is the preeminent ceramic armor material for ve hicular applications. Only when an extremely low weight is required e g. For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent. The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate.

You start with plain white ceramic plates and use gold markers and gold star stickers to embellish them. Ceramic plates fail to offer the weight advantages and ease of handling fabricators and installers enjoy with fiberglass based bullet proof panels. And tough as a hell. These small cracks can drastically decrease the integrity of the plate and reduce its chances of defeating multiple rounds.

The cost for this was around 30. Cut the fiberglass into 8 by 96 inch wide strips on a board covered with saran wrap. This thing is heavy. 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.

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. Shooting the diy plate armor the second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate. I used a steel i beam piece a ceramic floor tile duck tape and a can of plastidip. Beside these qualities other ceramic materials have also been considered and were examined intensive ly for the purpose of ballistic.

Allow it to cure for three days. A thick ballistic steel plate over level iiia armor is also considered to be effective as level iii armor against light rifle fire. 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. Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it.

The ceramic tile was demolished. 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. In a shtf i would wear one of my diy ballistic plates over wearing nothing. Simple diy painted plates.

No bullets got through the plate.