Homemade Body Armor
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- I think I can make my own body armor.....hold my beer and watch this!!!
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there needs to be a part 2 where you combine different materials together in layers.
turtleh IKR! He should
yeeeeeeessssss!!!! paper and duct tape!
turtleh DUDE NICE IDEA
A 200 sheet of paper with a dinner plate on the front would work pretty well
With construction paper
Hey,
Apparently you can make functional ballistic armor by cutting several sheets of industrial felt (The thick tightly woven kind, not the thin colorful stuff at the craft store. You can find it at upholstery suppliers, body shops, carpet stores, etc. ) with a razor, and stacking them together with a uniform layer of silicone caulking spread with a putty knife between each sheet. Allow the caulking to cure for 24-48 hours.
This is a trick I found in a survivalist type newsletter from the 80s. It seems plausible. Try it!!!
Mark Wilkes cool
Simple solution: Cover yourself in explosives. No one will shoot you due to fear of blowing up the city block.
you realize that almost all conventional explosives will not explode when shot,right?
Gus Howell stop bursting my bubble
Sorry,bro.
+UncleSebby ok well just to safe use tannerite
+meanwhile this just in, bullets can reach further than a city block :P
put a ceramic dinner plate in front of the paper to break up the bullet the way the level IV armor was constructed
500 Sheets of paper wrapped in 4 rolls of ducktape with 4 shirts BOOM shit can take a 50 cal Kappa
It would bulge like a foot and a half off his chest.... Not practical at all.
Yessss
MetroDET2011 its a joke.... I said it can take a 50 cal.....
Kappa
TheSlapper200 lol only a small amount of people with understand the Kappa part
You, hickok45 and Mattv2099 should all make a show like top gear but about guns. Test different guns, put them through crazy challenges and have guests try their best with a "reasonably priced rifle"
Don't forget 22 plikster
Valoro85
B is greater than A, good job
And Richard Ryan +FullMag to do slo mo and of course .50 bmg
This has happen...they can send guns over to plinkster (the stig) for a full on accuracy test
+Draven Hughes You need space for your "Professional Russian" - FPS Russia!
CUT SEAT BELTS FROM OLD VEHICLES UP INTO 1-1/2FT & 1FT PIECES AND USE A CEREAL BOX LIKE YOU HAD WITH THE DUCT TAPE. GLUE THEM ONE LAYER AT A TIME (CROSS PATTERN) UNTIL IT IS JUST OVER 1.25 INCHES THICK. YOU'RE WELCOME ;) HOME MADE BULLET STOPPERS. WRAP IN WALMART THEME TSHIRTS FOR STYLE POINTS!
+Drew Rosene MILWAUKEE TOOLS JOBSITE SCISSORS CUT SEAT BELTS REAL WELL!
+MrGuevara888 Why do you talk? Is this why you watch videos? Or do you serve a purpose? Would you like to hold my prototype? ;)
+Drew Rosene not gonna lie, read that entire thing as Joel Heyman.
DO THIS MATT¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Drew Rosene TO THE TOP GOOD SIR!
Sitting in quarantine rewatching all his videos and his confidence went way up in the last couple years he’s doing much better likes it’s super natural for Matt to talk to the camera now
Wrap 200 sheets of paper with the duct tape :)
I second this idea
Was just about to suggest that
I was just about to suggest that when your comment appeared.:P
So guess I will just say: Hell Yeah.:P
Or wrap 500 sheets in duct tape.
+Sopranoprince28 I was trying to keep it low-profile :)
You know, I had a huge fear of guns. Starting to watch your channel after finding Vet Ranch and I am actually going to be getting my CHL here in the next month. I don't know why but watching your videos has helped me with my gun fear and actually want a pistol and learn how to shoot. Thank you for that and for helping all the animals you help here in Texas, we need more people like you out there.
I duct taped a bunch of Nokia 310s to shirt to keep my self safe
And you were killed by the ricochet?
+THE BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL Don't do that. The world isn't ready for this.
+THE BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL level 5 000 000 body armor
Lol fallout
forget power armor, Nokia armor has 900,000,000,000 Dr/dt
I really think you should use a 5.56 as your standard benchmark caliber.. its extremely common and easy to reference to by 90%+ of the firearms community
I've tried this, and had decent success with small bathroom tiles about 2x2in and and just snadwiched them in duct tape about a 1/4 in apart, then put phonebook paper and duct tape again, about 1/8-1/4in and then another tile tape layer, staggered to cover the cracks in the other layer and then sealed it all up with two rolls of duct tape. it stopped a 357. mag, 9mm, 40sw. but a 223. punched through, but I think most of the tiles were destroyed by then, we got that gun later in the day or I'd have tried it first.
You want something to slow the bullet, and spread the impact as much as possible. So the stopping cane from paper and duct tape and the dissipation came from the tiles, the energy goes into cracking the tiles instead of cutting through your liver lol
Anyway, that's just my experince.
P.s. I know about all the typos lol I'm typing on my phone and I'm very sleepy..
also, I forgot to mention we used porcelain tiles, not ceramic. They were a bit lighter and softer, but created very sharp shards.... please be careful if you ever try this stuff guys! Or just buy Ar500 armour like I did haha it's insanely cheap, almost suspicious...
tiles can act like ceramic armor (especially if they are ceramic tiles). I have seen some made with 1x1in tiles staggered on gorilla tape with silicon to seal the gaps then an adhesive of some type (I think it was a resin mixture) followed by another layer of tile placed so they overlap the cracks of the previous layer, wrap the whole thing in gorilla tape to hold it together, then sandwich the whole thing between two 1/8in sheet steel plates. Never saw the testing on it but it sounds fairly solid and cheep in comparison to purpose built armor.
But was the armor flexible enough to make it practical for homemade chest armor? I'm sure there are all types of materials to make a bullet stopper, but is it wearable for more than a few mins? Like say, could you sit through a 2 hr movie with it on, without begging to be shot from the stiffness and discomfort?
+SuperN0va
Fr I don't think you should ever be wearing homemade armor at the movies haha if you're that worried about getting smoked while watching the beauty and beast I suggest just get an actual vest
RUclips Spam Regulation Officer Lol, I just used a 2 hour movie as an example. I don't even like going to theaters because there's always 1 or more assholes that make me want to unload. Why Beauty and the Beast? Last movie my wife dragged me to was some horror movie sequel a few weeks ago. So long and boring, I snored through the second half, and I hope it annoyed the assshole kids that kept talking, laughing, and getting up every 5 minutes.
Take some gorila glue and glue up 20 sheets of paper,wrap it with two layers of ducktape,place another 10 sheets of gorila glue laminated paper on each side,wrap in ducktape 4 layers,and another 15 sheets laminated on each side,wrap in about 5-6 layers of ducktape in different directions,and a couple of shirts after should stop an AR round is my guess!Please try this one man
And do truck bed liner in between layers!
An ar round is 5.56. That isn't going to stop a 5.56! I made my own armor and it stopped ak/7.62x39. So it'll stop 5.56 also. I just finished a new and better plate. It should stop .308!
+weapondude123 That isn't necessarily true, 7.62x39 is a decently heavy projectile, with decent speed. However, 5.56 projectiles are much faster, (depending on the powder load) and since they are smaller, they have a much higher concentration of impact force. Now try that same test against a 7.62x54r!
+Joash Church true. But my newest homemade plate will stop .308 the old plate that stopped 7.62x39 probably would stop 5.56 because the 7.62x39 bullet only went through the ceramic and tegris and didn't make it to the backer. I believe it could've stopped 5.56
weapondude123 Nothing left to do but try it out!
Here is an idea for multi layered one:
Top: glass( to break up the bullet)
Middle: sides of tower pc case (steel should slow it)
Body side: jeans (they are made of tough fiber)
That sounds pretty good man
I'd switch the glass out for some porcelain, a plate maybe.
I'd switch the glass out for some porcelain, a plate maybe.
Glass doesnt break bullets... Only ceramic is hard enough.
MetroDET2011 But how bulletproof windows work?
What about something like Twine, wrapped around some cardboard, for multiple layers, partially glued down, maybe some duct tape (duck tape) and a steel plate on the front, to actually catch he bullet?
The steel would catch it, and twine would cushion the blow, and use those fibers, while the duct tape keeps it together
PureChaos | Nice Idea!
PureChaos Genius
Kodakuna Okami Thank you very much!
PureChaos yeah it might protect you from I think most small bullets up to 50 magnum but it will be a nice armor against 9mm
what about the 250 paper wrapped in duct tape and then covered in t-shirts?
50.cal i thought the highest he was using was a 44 magnum which fires 44.cal (please correct me if im wrong)
Nope the .44 is bigger
+Dylan Grima Are you talking about the cartridge, or the projectile?
The projectile
Well has more power i should say
Seriously though, try 3M Tyvek. It's puncture resistant and paper thin. Used in a bunch of industrial products but also...its Fedex mailing pouches. Cyclists use 1 thin layer harvested from Fedex mailers to line their inner tubes to protect from road sharps. Imagine what a whole stack of them could do. Also comes in a nice chest sized pieces if go for the Fedex mailers.
+Shao Zhang - That's actually a good idea. Tyvek is pretty strong! Layer up like 100 of them and you might have a shot @ some good armor.
It's also the material they use to make wrist bands with. The ones you're not supposed to be able to take off without cutting. Its basically lost of plastic fibers bonded together into a sheet much like soft armor. A single sheet isn't that strong but is much stronger than paper at the same thickness. Lots of sheets layered should be viable body armor.
+Shao Zhang Tyvek is made of kevlar, isn't it?
+wattrlz Not quite. Tyvek and Kevlar are both made by dupont for different markets, uses and price but I'm sure there's a lot thats related about them but don't quote me on that. The main difference is that you can walk down to your local post office and get a 'free' stack of Tyvek mailers that are conveniently chest sized.
+Shao Zhang You are correct. It's more like Spectra felt. Just looked it up (www.dupont.com/content/dam/dupont/products-and-services/fabrics-fibers-and-nonwovens/industrial-fabrics/documents/DPT_Tyvek_Product_Handbook.pdf) . It should make for a pretty interesting test.
favorite youtuber by far!
love your vids matt keep them flowing!
+Pelle _ sick gun vids and also saves dogs!
+DJMinX lol ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
***** its just b8 m8 dont h8
+DJMinX How about you learn to spell.
Darkhazard that's why I said it politely!!
Big candles are surprisingly bulletproof and cheap too. U could start a nine mm to a 50 bmg and see how many candles it will take to stop them
"Which is how a lot of people did I bet."
LOL!
die* flipping autocorrect.
+Ante Omnia Libertatem i wanted it to say auto cucumber Xd
+Baltic Tiger XD
Several sheets of aluminum foil pressed against each other with 50-75 sheets of paper on either side, all wrapped in several layers of woven duct tape
lol!
Mnason Wheeler Did it work? 😂😂😂
My brother and I were wondering, what if you took some ceramic/stone tiles (Like you did in " Cheap Body Armor Upgrades") and wrapped it in duct tape like you did with the cardboard?
+Volcomintality this may actually work
IlmLiu
i wanna find out, hopefully other people are wondering the same thing and he makes a video.
+Volcomintality I am pretty sure the plates they gave us in Iraq circa 2009 were actually ceramic and metal comb-, great idea for real. He should test this on an episode.
+Volcomintality with a thin sheet of hardened metal.
I think just something like a steel platter would improve performance a lot, because most body-armor works by first deforming (increasing the surface area of) the bullet at the armor-face, and catching it with stuff like kevlar.
So my dibs are steel platter, taped onto 500 sheets of paper.
damn bro u look like a vet from another channel called vet ranch...
lifes crazy...
+GrizzlyVFX o shit waddup
It is him
namelesspistachio HEY GUYS!!!!! I SHOOT GUNS ON THE WEEKENDS and on the weekdays i take care of injured animals....
man there is something so fucked up about that...
i respect him though if he is the same person.
Jax Amilius It's the same person
So, Zombie invasion: stock up on stacks of paper and duct tape. Got it, thanks!
Zombies don't shoot guns.
No, but humans do, and if I've learned anything from playing zombie games, it's that other humans are usually the bigger threat.
zakkwylde89 x
zakkwylde89 get phone books
Noticed a great idea in the movie 'World War Z'. Brad Pitts character used magazines (the kind you read) and duct tape for gauntlets to keep from getting bit.
I wonder if multiple layers of fiberglass cloth would work
Fiberglass wrapped around cardboard using duct tape. you can use roof tiles too. Make a bunch of square plates and stack them, like 2 or 3 on top of each other. Heard it works very well
+Alex Pelc probably weights a ton though
Aleksey Makin I saw it on a TV show, guy who made it said it was fairly light for body armor
that's a good idea
I was thinking the same thing when I seen the fibers. Fiberglass isn't packed together really well though
have you tried t-shirts layered using fiberglass resin?
derek holland lol 6 mins only
derek holland He should ask Tom how to make clothing that protects better than metal.
why are meth heads obsessed with fiber glass and why are data speeds so fast with fiber
my ex girlfriend would make perfect level 3a body armor
jakespeed9419 fuck you
jakespeed9419 dead
jakespeed9419 you savage
jakespeed9419 YO DUDE !!!!!!!!
jakespeed9419 that's sexist
A bunch of layers of silk
Cool bb gun brah.
+Angel Gutierrez wut?
Don't think he knows who you are wound channel
The Wound Channel You habe a bb gun in yo picture.
+LittleDaB'llDo obviously not lol
What about some sort of liquid that reacts to force.
burninghalls no somebody else tried and it failed it didn't even faze a .22
Game Task
Oh well that sucks at least now we all know.
+burninghalls the government is actually working on a suit, made out of a ferrofluid like substance, that can be shaped with electromagnetic fields, and should be able to stop bullets easily, without phasing the wearer, and it would be lifted by the power of the magnets, so it would feel like nothing. picture iron man, without the super strength.
burninghalls oobleck??
shit ton of corn starch and water. won't stop a bullet but cool as hell to watch in slow motion lol
he looks like chris pratt to me.
Rogen Santos chris pratt and possibly a little matt damon
I see more Justin Timberlake haha
Marlyn Willie Ashton Kutcher
His face Nan!! his body language definitely yes
That’s my last name!!!
How about 500 sheets of paper wrapped in duck tape!
With t shirts around it
He's like a Chris Pratt with a lot of guns, love it
fiber glass resing and sheets of fiber glass zna has a tutorial on his channel
GREAT IDEA!
Now i had this one for a long time in my head so.
1.Take 200 pack of paper wrap it with one roll of duct tape horizontally and then another roll of duct tape vertically. And glue some bathroom tiled to the front of it ( something you used on one of your recent videos)
2. Almost the same as 1 but here the layering is important! Wrap 2 rolls of duct tape in opposing directions( on| the other -) onto something thin or nothing (cardboard like u did in the video) onto that put the 200 paper stack and then onto that put the bathroom/ outdoor tiles. Layers: Body|Duct Tape|Paper|Tile
Nice idea with the fragments. Didn't even think about collateral damage that the fragments could make. I like it.
+NOoXlab Hello bro! I love your videos, the first one i saw was te one about black powder.
+theRPGmaster
Thanks man. I really appreciate it. I don't have a big channel but I can still see that there are people that like my content.
+NOoXlab Doesnt sound very flexible and sounds very very thick
Racist racist crap
create something that stop 50 cal. . ....
Ur mum
+ExplodingScience savage
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999ft thick steel
+Florian Gesa 1inch ar550 steel doesnt even get touched by a 50 cal
Chuck Norris
his name is Lieutenant Dan after the crippled captain in Forrest Gump
Crazy watching your old videos. I miss creepy cooter
500sheets wrapped in duck tape
duct*
+cadkls duck tape is a thing. Google it.
and t-shirt
StevDoesBigJumps
adrian maruska Yes?
what about ratchet straps or fire department hose material those are really tightly woven material
He tried the hose and it stopped the .50 bmg
See how much wax it takes to stop various calibers
nothing goes better together than the words “ballistic protection” and “homemade”
In "Murica we don't use sheets of paper because our printers only take rounds.
BAN high capacity packs of paper! No one needs 500 sheets of paper at once! Require background checks for more than 350 sheets! #forthekids #CAGV #bloomberg
Alternate about 8 layers of fiberglass with the same of silk and see if that helps you out. I would use a pliable and soft backing to help take the punch of the round. Would help with rib breakage.
nah, dont bother with these other comments. here's what ya do ( im smrt ya know)
1:take an old tv guide(to bore the bullet)
:coat it with rubber cement (to sticky up the bullet)
:throw some sand on there (to abrade the bullet away)
:gorilla glue that thing (my pappy says its the best so it must stop bullets rite)
:and an outer layer of unripe tomatoes (those things are SOLID)
I know a way better idea, throw a sock at the bullet mid air ( easy ) and it should re bound and hit the guy who shot at you
Beefin Dan "shooters hate this one weird trick"
+b33lze6u6 nerds are killing everyone with this trick
+b33lze6u6 nerds are killing everyone with this trick
***** oh good idea! you must be an engineer
Hallo.
Einen Vorschlag zum ausprobieren !
1.)
Gewebeklebeband auf feinen Sand und dann auf Papier.
2.)
das 200 mal über einander.
Oder!
a.)
Sand in Frühstückstühten zu rollen machen im Durchmesser von 2 cm.
b.)
25 Rollen wagrecht und
15 Rollen senkrecht davor.
c.)
das ganze mit Gewebeklebeband verbinden!
Hello.
A suggestion to try!
1.)
Fabric tape on fine sand and then on paper.
2.)
The 200 times one above the other.
Or!
A.)
Sand in breakfast to roll to roll make in the diameter of 2 cm.
B.)
25 castors wagright and
15 rolls vertically in front.
C.)
The whole with tissue tape
mit freundlichen Gruß
with friendly greetings
Lexa Gorrchen
I would like to draw you "t-shirt theory" back to the Soviet Union during WWII. My father told me a lot of times ( I'm russian ( No offensive comments needed )) that the uniform they wore was made for 2 things. 1.: To keep the soldiers body warm and protected from the enviroment. 2.: To slow down the bullets to a non-lethal power.
Very cool! Your English is fine :)
They also ran headlong at German tanks and thought the Mosen was the best sniper rifle ever made, maybe we should be a little weary of listening to Russia when it comes to things like this.
Your english is excellent. Its certainly way better than anyone heres russian
Taticallyfluffy Marine Like the americans didn't like to bunny hop in the crossfire and get killed huh? Or not get bombed by friendly artillery huh?
I was just being an ass, but yeah I wouldn't listen to them either
Wich caliber can stop a car in one shot (i mean kill the engine)
+Jaime Lannister Bofors 40mm...
Blahorga Slisk do you drive a freaking tank ? :D
What about a small car engine ?
+Jaime Lannister 20 mm
+Jaime Lannister Need to get into large calibers, not necessarily super powerful ones. Need lots of weight to do it. 45-70 gov't, 458 socom, 50 beowulf, 460 S&W, 500 S&W, pretty much anything like this is enough to put a hole in an engine block.
If it's just an alloy block 4cyl engine, 5.56 will destroy it.
Tombs Clawtooth what about a .40 pistol to shoot a little french engine ?
Can chainmail armor stop a bullet? Maybe that's something you can try out :)
+Europe Channel It sure as hell won't, if arrows can get through it then a bullet will with ease. Also you could shoot through the rings
+Europe Channel Chainmail was designed to stop slashing weapons, plate armor was designed to stop piercing weapons.
Actually depending on how large the chains are, they could stop a thrust. Honestly a gambeson or a bergandine will stop a slash easily
+FireFyfe an arrow goes through chainmail because it is pointy and breaks the chainmail-rings up like a wedge. bullets are not pointy. if the chainmail is sturdy enough without being too rigid at the same time (which a good chainmail should be), it would maybe stop a few minor pistol calibers. and buckshot, when the bbs aren't so small that they can fit through the rings. but maybe pistol rounds would shatter on impact and thereby the splinters would penetrate nonethteless. a chainmail is also very fexible so that a bullet could probably penetrate the body behind the mail without having to break through at all.
+Europe Channel My friend makes some, he used a few real small chains and he tested it against a 12 gauge slug. The slug simply broke apart on impact no penetration.
I think it's easy to make a bullet proof vest ( or plate ) out of this items in this order:
You need 6 plates of aluminum you can get that from soda bottles like cutting the top and bottom, welding 3 plates of the cans to form a larger rectangle and then attach two rectangles one in front of the other and put between the two plates around 20 paper sheets. you will get 3 rectangles of two layer aluminum plates and now you should duck tape every rectangles and then duck tape all 3 rectangles together.
it means that this body armor plate is composed of 6 layers of aluminium and 60 paper sheets all duck taped. I think it will good against any kind of gun bullets plus it's soft and could be easily adjusted.
Ceramic tile + (optionally, but ideally - regularly steel plate about 4 mm thick) + 30-60 (depending on a thickness) layers of fiberglass - all laminated together (but espesially fiberglass!). That should stop most of the rifles, all handguns and 12 cal slugs...
steal wool, idk how youll do it but id like to see it done
+Demonic Killer Compress it evenly between two layers of something harder, possibly wood, and then fix it, either tape or resin.
Unfortunately the short fibres of steel wool would just separate, you need fibres that run the entire length of the armour to spread the impact.
+EDSKaR soak the steel wool in epoxy. that may help.
+Demonic Killer Pull wool apart to length and width, lay on MDF, saturate in body filler, compress between another board of MDF and pull together with G-clamps, once body filler has set use a sheet of rubber of the same dimensions to put on the back. Use washers and screw on at the corners so the rubber is slack and will absorb impact from rounds that have been slowed down by the wool.
wrap layers of shirts around a 500 sheet of paper and wrap duct tape around it.
There's one article that I read many years ago that said "silk" can be use and perform as a body armor. It was light, economical and have the same strength of Kevlar and Carbon Fibers combined. If that's TRUE, I suggest you try to blend silk cloth.... about 2 - 3m in length and then wrap it with duct tape several times over to form a nicely shape DIY Body Armor. Then put it to a test. What do you think?
heavy duty tin foil or saran wrap
....... lol
+bil xxkiill large quantities of them is shockingly durable
Kyle Hassen oh maybe its worth trying
+Kyle Hassen Maybe if it was a foot thick.
All of them vs 50 cal
There is a guy that suggested making homemade body armor out of felt. Its actually one of the best ideas. You can find thin pressed felt, but its an issue of finding the right kind of felt, not the kind made out of polyester but wool.
now to combine the duck tape with paper
yes
7 yards?? my house is not even 7 yards long LOL!!
You probably live in a shed then
+mightyfinejonboy wtf you live in the box under the bridge lol
Nope, the uk!! 16' 6" long, (5.5 yards). House in Hull :-(
+mightyfinejonboy I'll call it mini me
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14916580
I bet if you stick a 0.9mm thick bit of sheet steel to either/both sides of any of the DIY armours it'd help a heap. Would love to try it myself, but being in the UK I don't have a whole lot of guns laying around.
@Demplition range, try to make an armor plate of t-shirts clued with epoxy, it should easily catch 9mm and 45
giant gummy bear
for body armor
+Bruno Hinojosa but bullets go straight through it
+Богдан Роман nope
yes they do
unless you are shootin it with an airsoft gun
tech this out meow is a channel. he melted a bunch of plastic then wrapped it in fiber and resin and it was surprisingly durable (stops most handgun rounds)!! seems like one of the cheapest/easiest way to make pretty great homemade armor. After adding a 3/16in. steel plate as backing it stops pretty much most common rifle rounds.
for 1mil subs blow up cooter
please
try FGR-95 mixed with poly-proplene fibers with a 1/16 inch thick steel plate and a sheet of small bathroom tiles
Here's some ideas for some more home made armor testing : 1) Jean's fabric. ( A lot tougher than tshirt's ) 2) Leather. 3) Hardwood.
Cool video. Instead of using standard printer paper, try using a 400-500 page hard cover book with ceramic tile & duck tape. Flexibility is compromised a bit but durability to withstand higher caliber bullets will most certainly increase...
Next time use car felt instead of t-shirts. Mix the silicone with copious amounts of sand and press into the felt cloth. It's heavy, but I've had some success with it layered 12 times.
My first armor was pennies or nickels arranged close together and secured with duct tape. It was okay against .22 cal. and slashing weapons.
Great video. Thanks!
Try many, many, layers of polyester or nylon fabric. Polyester and nylon are synthetic fabrics that are made of many unbroken strands rather than cotton which is intertwined fibers. Polyester and nylon are significantly stronger than cotton. I personally like the strength of polyester. Also, silk is an organic unbroken thread, but silk is very expensive. I suspect that kevlar and commercial body armors are made with unbroken strands as well, possibly even steel thread.
Perhaps 1-2 layers of thin steel (like the roofing tiles in home depot) in the middle of ductape? the tape would slow it down and the steel would help a lot more than a layer of cardboard and the small ones could fit in a segmented pattern to make it flexible.
"Yup. He's dead. Shucks." *LOL*
Would love to see Lt. Dan with a wig and cigar.
How about blackout curtains for the material & the saucers from a child's ceramic tea set. Love this channel .
As a kid I made homemade armor for fun and tested it with bows.
Folded paper wrapped in duct tape worked very well.
Hey Matt have you ever tried shooting cornstarch and water mix ? I think it would do pretty good at stoping bullets. Mythbusters actually did an episode on it "walking on water" @DemolitionRanch
The myth busters are back!
you should combine all of the materials in this video in one cool vest and also try a cast iron skillet please!
homemade body armor: Dinner plate to broke the bullet. After that 200 sheets of paper and then a layer of duct tape to hold everything together
you have an awesome 1911 it looks dope
Idea! 40 layers (or whatever it takes to finish up at 1" to 1.25") of 6oz fiberglass cloth stuck together with a modest coat of spray adhesive between each layer and set a cinder block on top of the layers while the adhesive cures. Wrap the whole thing in duct tape to make it look awesome...I think it could work!
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Try layers of cowhide leather put together with cotton balls between the layers. That could work. The leather would act as the hard point of the target and the cotton balls would be like the fibers. Kind of like ceramic and fiberglass.
Even though it stops the bullet, your armor may still be poor at absorbing the force... Like plate armor getting hit with a hammer. Body armor's weave patterns are designed to displace the force. These patterns combined with different fiber tenacity leads to light weight yet durable armor. I majored and work in the textile industry.
Take a 9x13 baking sheet and line the inside with flexseal. Add a steel window screen and chicken wire. Alternate screen and chicken wire for 3 layers and another layer of flexseal making sure to get any bubbles out before letting it set.
Screw it wrap it all in duct tape. Duct tape is cool.
Would love to see a viewer submission episode of wild paper/duct tape armour. Tape paper each side and tape 200 pieces together changing orientation of the strips of duct tape.
What other ideas do people have?
I think the best homemade body armor is hard covered books taped together.
Angles steel tread plate on top of some compressed fiberglass in fiberglass resin like ZNA did but more.
I made a shield out of a boogie board(foam used it for a core and used the handles for the sheild handles) I layered it with magazines two layers thick on front with the pages intertwined so that in the center it was thicker and one layer on the back about 6 rolls of duct tape wrapped around tue whole thing I couldnt test it with bullets but my 200lb crossbow couldnt get through it
Layers of fiberglass matting with high strength resin compressed under heavy weights.
you should try adding ceramic in front of that armor, or oobleck vest- there are oobleck tests on youtube, but none of them is body armor
DAMN, YOU BEAT MY MATH BOOK BODY ARMOUR!!!!
Take a freezer door and attach some steel plates onto the inside of the door then attach some thick rubber or flex liquid onto that and attach another steel plate to that.
Weave the pages of two phone books together and try that
Hello! I suggest how to make armor 3a/4 level. It's simple: duct tape for cover, ceramic tile for bullet destruction on frontside, and aluminium list for backside.
I have an idea. Take several sheets of Kevlar, soak them in high grade stf (shear thickening fluid) wrap them around a bullet proof plate or ar500 steel, and open fire with multiple calibers. You can make stf from high grade materials that can be bought online. The stf or liquid body armor will disperse the force of the bullet and stop most calibers. My prediction is if several layers of stf soaked Kevlar are wrapped around bulletproof steel or plates is shot, no round will succsefully penetrate.
try molding 1/4 inch thick automotive fiberglass fillers instead of the cardboard box then duct tapping it
I would love for you to be able to test my armor that I'm currently constructing if my prototypes pass. It is a titanium ceramic blend
put all 4 together. first layer toward the body is the tee shirt then 200 sheets of paper, then the 4 rolls of duct tape but this time put a 1/8 inch layer of ar steel in the middle., then the 500 sheets of paper. That will stop all the pistol round and all the rile rounds up to 416 rigby.
I have a damn good sewing machine that will sew in many different materials, if you go to fishing stores, they sell fishing line made of kevlar, if you used the right pound line of kevlar, you could sew a shirt made of kevlar.
Burninghalls there's Ooblex that is a liquid but if you hit it really fast it kind of solidifies for a second but i'm not sure it would stop a bullet .