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