Beside these qualities other ceramic materials have also been considered and were examined intensive ly for the purpose of ballistic.
Diy bullet proof ceramic plates.
Simple diy painted plates.
No bullets got through the plate.
Allow it to cure for three days.
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.
A thick ballistic steel plate over level iiia armor is also considered to be effective as level iii armor against light rifle fire.
For personal protec tion or for helicopters silicon carbide materials may be used.
Shooting the diy plate armor.
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.
The ceramic tile was demolished.
Cut the fiberglass into 8 by 96 inch wide strips on a board covered with saran wrap.
The cost for this was around 30.
Ceramic plates fail to offer the weight advantages and ease of handling fabricators and installers enjoy with fiberglass based bullet proof panels.
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.
Is the preeminent ceramic armor material for ve hicular applications.
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.
These small cracks can drastically decrease the integrity of the plate and reduce its chances of defeating multiple rounds.
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.
Shooting the diy plate armor the second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate.
And tough as a hell.
For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent.
Only when an extremely low weight is required e g.
As a commercial domestic bullet proof system manufacturer jim richards isn t all that impressed with ceramics.