I love watching your tests. You have some very unconventional materials and it makes for great watching and interesting results. Thank you for all the work you put in.
Here is a interesting chalange for you (I'm going to copy paste this comment on afew videos so you notice it)... Fiberglass balistic helmet or just a full diy balistic helmet series including back face deformation testing. My idea is a fiberglass helmet with thin steel bars impeded on the inner layers of fiberglass forming a lattice shape to prevent serious back face deformation.
I'd be curious to see how your landscape fabric plate deals with a 556 coming out of a short barrel, given how common AR pistols have become. Probably won't stand a chance, but the reduced ballistic performance might give your plate an advantage
@@3RBallistics for sure but neither is a welding blanket until it’s soaked in resin and bound up. i think the chap could take epoxy really well and if you scored it you could make a real solid bond between them. i bet 4 layers of chap fabric exposed and saturated and then backed with lawn mat or one of the other components you use. i bet it stops some silly bullets (if i had the resources i’d try, and probably will in time) but i got the idea here so thanks 🤙🏻
@@Meop79 that would actually something good to try. One is more of an abrasion layer while the other is more of an absorbing layer. I’ll look more into that.
Woven landscape fabric has much higher tensile strength than the non-woven type that you are using. I think it's also a little thinner. Maybe you can try it for comparison.
I may try it out again. I actually used the woven fabric on the first plate I did. Unfortunately it did not perform as well. It is stronger but tends to delaminate and cause other issues while using resin. I may go back to the drawing board and try heat and pressing the woven fabric together much like UHMPE.
why did you choose gravel? 1) bend a lexan plate in front, dont compromise the filter fabric just put it in front and cover it with, i dont know, tape. 2) make it flat with tile in front, taped. 3) one sheet of filter fabric, 2 or 3 or 5 sheets of tyvec. repeat. i think you are on to something with that fabric, filter. what about half as much kevlar with the fabric?
I chose gravel because it seems to go with landscape fabric and I needed more of a strike face to go with the absorption layer. I actually shot the tyvek without any modifications and it didn’t stop a 9mm even at 300+ layers. Also, thanks for the input. I’ll definitely look into other compositions and see what might work.
try this off camera on the ,well either one of the black ones. find a piece pf 3/4 plywood and just stand it up behind the plate. shoot it with the 44 mag or 10MM.@@3RBallistics
@@DavidautofullGravel is usually made up of hard Rocks, which will do a similar job to a ceramic layer. But it won't shatter in the same way a tile does, due to the way energy is dissipated around and through the materials. Lexan is relatively expensive and flat sheets are difficult to fit to a curved plate without using heat, potentially weakening the material as it bends. If you're going to add 3/4 inch of plywood to it, you might as well have added more layers of fabric and made the plate 3/4 inch thicker in the first place.
This worked better than I thought. There is definitely a utility to testing more simple builds. This armour can be made by anyone in any combat zone and slapped on an SUV or truck pretty fast.
@@evansaw293 If you happen to have a roll of that fabric and lots of resin lying around, plus a way of moulding it and clamping it to make it uniform, then yes you can make some armour. Of course, in a combat zone you're far more likely to be facing high velocity rifle rounds, not handgun rounds... and that's a different kettle of fish altogether.
I love watching your tests. You have some very unconventional materials and it makes for great watching and interesting results. Thank you for all the work you put in.
Thanks for all your work and experiments i appreciate what your doing.
Enjoying your videos and have been impressed with your ingenuity and results.
Here is a interesting chalange for you (I'm going to copy paste this comment on afew videos so you notice it)...
Fiberglass balistic helmet or just a full diy balistic helmet series including back face deformation testing.
My idea is a fiberglass helmet with thin steel bars impeded on the inner layers of fiberglass forming a lattice shape to prevent serious back face deformation.
Love the content!
Find an old CNG type 4 tank and cut a plate out of that. They are already bullet proof up to a 357. But not sure how much more it can withstand
I'd be curious to see how your landscape fabric plate deals with a 556 coming out of a short barrel, given how common AR pistols have become. Probably won't stand a chance, but the reduced ballistic performance might give your plate an advantage
had an idea, what if you used chainsaw chaps as a layer. it’s p much kevlar loosened i think
I’ll look into it. Just keep in mind that there are many Kevlar fabrics that are cut resistant but not ballistically capable of stoping projectiles.
@@3RBallistics for sure but neither is a welding blanket until it’s soaked in resin and bound up. i think the chap could take epoxy really well and if you scored it you could make a real solid bond between them. i bet 4 layers of chap fabric exposed and saturated and then backed with lawn mat or one of the other components you use. i bet it stops some silly bullets (if i had the resources i’d try, and probably will in time) but i got the idea here so thanks 🤙🏻
Was it limestone gravel? Might be interesting to test different types of gravel, like granite or river stones.
I honestly don’t know what kind of gravel it was. I really do like the idea of using harder gravel material to test out.
@@3RBallisticsquartz is pretty common in gravel and is a 7 on mohs hardness...
@@3RBallistics curious why you didn't try putting the tyvek plate behind the other plate to see what they could stop together.
@@Meop79 that would actually something good to try. One is more of an abrasion layer while the other is more of an absorbing layer. I’ll look more into that.
Woven landscape fabric has much higher tensile strength than the non-woven type that you are using. I think it's also a little thinner. Maybe you can try it for comparison.
I may try it out again. I actually used the woven fabric on the first plate I did. Unfortunately it did not perform as well. It is stronger but tends to delaminate and cause other issues while using resin. I may go back to the drawing board and try heat and pressing the woven fabric together much like UHMPE.
@@3RBallisticsHave you ever tried woven UHWMPE or UHWMPE with resin?
@@FROGGKINGG I’ve done a ton of testing with UHMWPE. Here is just one of those videos.
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why did you choose gravel?
1) bend a lexan plate in front, dont compromise the filter fabric just put it in front and cover it with, i dont know, tape.
2) make it flat with tile in front, taped.
3) one sheet of filter fabric, 2 or 3 or 5 sheets of tyvec. repeat.
i think you are on to something with that fabric, filter.
what about half as much kevlar with the fabric?
I chose gravel because it seems to go with landscape fabric and I needed more of a strike face to go with the absorption layer.
I actually shot the tyvek without any modifications and it didn’t stop a 9mm even at 300+ layers.
Also, thanks for the input. I’ll definitely look into other compositions and see what might work.
try this off camera on the ,well either one of the black ones. find a piece pf 3/4 plywood and just stand it up behind the plate. shoot it with the 44 mag or 10MM.@@3RBallistics
@@DavidautofullGravel is usually made up of hard Rocks, which will do a similar job to a ceramic layer. But it won't shatter in the same way a tile does, due to the way energy is dissipated around and through the materials. Lexan is relatively expensive and flat sheets are difficult to fit to a curved plate without using heat, potentially weakening the material as it bends. If you're going to add 3/4 inch of plywood to it, you might as well have added more layers of fabric and made the plate 3/4 inch thicker in the first place.
Haven't watched yet, I dont think this will be a good build. The landscape fabric I use is made of PET (pop bottle plastic).
This worked better than I thought.
There is definitely a utility to testing more simple builds. This armour can be made by anyone in any combat zone and slapped on an SUV or truck pretty fast.
@@evansaw293 If you happen to have a roll of that fabric and lots of resin lying around, plus a way of moulding it and clamping it to make it uniform, then yes you can make some armour. Of course, in a combat zone you're far more likely to be facing high velocity rifle rounds, not handgun rounds... and that's a different kettle of fish altogether.