Diy Bullet Proof Ceramic Plates

Allow it to cure for three days.

Diy bullet proof ceramic plates.

Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it. 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. 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.

Simple diy painted plates. Beside these qualities other ceramic materials have also been considered and were examined intensive ly for the purpose of ballistic. And tough as a hell. This thing is heavy.

As a commercial domestic bullet proof system manufacturer jim richards isn t all that impressed with ceramics. Is the preeminent ceramic armor material for ve hicular applications. Shooting the diy plate armor the second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate. Shooting the diy plate armor.

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. 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. For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent. 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. For personal protec tion or for helicopters silicon carbide materials may be used. 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.

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. The ceramic tile was demolished. The cost for this was around 30.

No bullets got through the plate.