Great job on this one. I know you put a ton of work in not only making the shield but filming it as well, just to destroy it inorder to show us your results. AMAZING JOB MY FRIEND. Hopefully this leads to an outstanding future for you and your family. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words brother. Lets pray that it leads somewhere. Honestly, I wouldn't mind just building and testing this stuff full time for a living, maybe one day.
Would of watched this sooner instead of eight days later if I'd known it got posted. Ya, great idea with the folding circle, pretty sweet.??? I'm thinking, although some of the nicer kevlars can be more expensive at about at least $70-$80 a yard or maybe a little more I think?, or at least wanting to test at least one with that, lol?, I might be more likely to test some ballistic nylon at about $20-$25 a yard, and hopefully test close to as good as the kevlar?, maybe some more duck tape??? Might be a little harder to incorporate a good strike face like ceramic or rocks, or fake rubies and sapphires, like the sapphire company that tested well on demolition ranch?, with the metal backing like I usually like with the folding, or with some possible good armor scale designs. It definitely looks marketable, I think I should get the military shield contract cuz I'm a lionen with lionentech though. And I'm gonna hopefully have a great time making my truncated cylinder steel shield lance with less area at the forge, although it's not as often that I watch a video of an american shooting a lock off a house instead of bashing it in ukraine but I have seen it, and hopefully finish it in less than forty years, lol. Or maybe some carbon fiber on the outside, like the futuristic shoulder gaurd or vambraces videos, which I'm not sure if it would stop .44 long barrel either, and not the most ballistic wave protection without metal, with hopefully not getting shot by 50 bmgs anyway? But I'm setting new personal bests with my exercises every other week, and I'm really liking my blue and gold katana, and hard headed veteran helmet as a pretty good helmet, even without the $1600 monocle. Not that many people often consider the amount of organizing and business partnerships, with fake sapphire makers, rocks like a rock crab, or ceramic, tailors, after smithing all of the metal plates or machining the aluminum 7075 bracers and greaves of course most likely that can go into a set of well made armor, and possibly more attention to detail with scales that don't always fit in the typical format of making profit while thinking like a rock crab.
Hey everyone! I had an idea that I wanted to share with you. I was thinking about impact surfaces and it occurred to me that angle grinder discs would make a great option. They are made of a super hard material and have glass fibers inside to hold them together, which makes them ideal for absorbing impact. Plus, they come in really large and thick sizes and are affordable to buy. I think it's worth trying out as an option. Let me know what you guys think! And if it works out, credit where credit is due, right? ;) please if you can try this
Some ideas (take it for what its worth) 1. instead of using metal hinges (bulky) use a the same material your making the straps out of and use them as flexture hinges. I believe this will allow to reduce the thickness. 2. Maybe use a rotating center piece of steal to lock all sections in place. You rotate into locking tabs, this way you can lock all four sections at once. 3. Just go with a square sheild instead of round since it would add protection but not change the storage space by much. The issue with shields is that you are loosing functionally of one hand. A plate carrier is a better option and more easier to conceal while in use. On construction you really need a press to compress the laminations together. A hydraulic bottle jack and some steel plates would work. or buy a harbor freight shop press. OR a steel plate with some heavy bolts and an impact driver would work.
CAD: Cardboard Added Design Very cool project. I definitely see where there is major improvement in the hinges, especially in reducing bulk. Seems like some form of fabric hinge, or maybe with elastic would lower the weight and decrease the bulk.
I need one of these when I make night-runs to the store. If the store people ask me what it is, I'll simply say, "it's a ballistic shield, to protect me from the ballistic public!".
glad to see youre still posting. just a heads up, i just picked up some balistic kevlar and uhmwpe from ali express for like 40$ each, enough to make 2 or 3 plates out of each. i think the safegaurd hyperline style of putting a few layers of kevlar and then a few layers of uhmwpe has kind of shown to be extremely durable. cant wait to do some experiments myself on the two in combination. maybe if this was made out of simmilar materials a few layers of kevlar themselves could act like the hinges. just a thought. thanks for uploading
Exellent use of S-grade layered multi directional fiberglass The many folds weakens the structure, maybe a single fold down the middle would have been a better idea. The less folds, the better protection. You had the luxury here to ad a strikeface, since its not flexible. Not necessary ceramic but a thin high hardness metal of 1mm hardox or hard aluminum would increase the stopping power greatly. Does not need to be 10mm porcelain, but just a few mm of something hard would do wonders. I would have build a longer, rectangular shield with a single fold in the middle, still to be stuffed in a backpack. Using the angle of the two plates towards the enemy would with hardox 500 1mm greatly increases deflection of even ball rifle rounds. If you hold the shield carrying hand in front of you, you naturally create a triangle with your body. That way you get good frontal protection but also sides with less protection.
One thing I'd be curious about, would be a bookshelf bullet resistant shield. I think such a thing could be made extremely cheap, yet stop 7,62x39 easily! My emergency plans include using my bedroom as a safe room, where we'd be hunkered down behind a bookshelf.
Thoughts: - fabric hinges would be a lot more compact than the metal hinges you used, and probably lighter. - Nylon fabric as a tougher backing for the harder fiberglass. - how does the fabric just stacked and sewn around the edge compare to the resin laminated composite in stopping power?
Man your channel is exactly one of my niche interests , diy armor. More so the shield , my idea was like gold in half but yours is dope too man, I want a way to be able to aim a rifle through it with maximum protection for me, got any ideas
I'd be interested in seeing the vehicle although love the rest as well. I've got a 2004 Crown Vic I'm wanting to armor up pretty heavily in the next couple years.
Outstanding build! And yes I too am planning to use cardboard as a form for some of my builds. So again I have a request for a video for your subscriber special sapi plate video series if you have time and resources to look into it I think I mentioned this on your last video. If you could test a sapi or 3 different sapis using melted PET(Polyethylene Terepthalate) and fiberglass laminate with a porcelain strike face to see if it can stop even higher rifle threats than the HDPE one it would be much appreciated. My thinking is that a PET/fiberglass matrix composite would stop that 7.62x54R LPS round you've been trying to stop. I have detailed instructions for what I think might work to get PET plastic to melt without much difficulty if you're interested. Again thanks for the collapsible shield video!!
This is awesome, but I would recommend making it somehow able to be quickly put on your chest or back instead of handheld, in the past hand held wasn't an issue because most swords were one handed and the shield could be used offensively as well, but with guns you really need both hands especially in a crowded environment.
@@gamecubekingdevon3 not really, it is only really in point and shoot situations that are happening within a few yards that you can use a handgun effectively with only one hand, the almost all uses for revolvers and pistols alike demand two hands.
@@Techthisoutmeow i stole the idea from silver-age batman. He needs to expose his mouth in his costume to emote, and his costume is unpowered unlike Lex's mech suit so it has to be light and flexable. But all of the Rogues gallery love their submachine guns. So Batman's solution is an all black costume with a prominent high contrast yellow bat symbol on the most heavily armoured part of his chest plate to encourage bad guys to target that and not his armpit or brain stem. An equivalent for this shield would be to paint the shield all black including the hinges and then put a white dot in the quadrant that you have your hand behind. People will think they're targeting your face behind the shield but will strike the most strong and supported part of the shield. Still it would be a tough day at work if people are shooting at your shield in any case.
My question is about the in application use. Put that shield on a pivot, like your arm. Won't you just deflect up to your face or down to your legs? Also impact damage, is it going to break your arm?
I always wonder if a thin layer of steel would stick to the bullet making it slightly fatter. Like the first layer it hits is a low carbon sheet like 20 gauge. And if it would coat the slower (pistol caliber) rounds. We could test this with just the sheet of metal and phone books. Try to find one that "sticks" to the bullet. I think that rifle rounds blow this kind of material away faster then it can stick. Though.
maybe you could use a 3/8 thick allu alloy instead of the composite? might increase a bit weight, but would be IIIA for sure without being that much thicker
@@Techthisoutmeow possible. worth noting that i said 3/8 because i expected the use of somehting like 5083 or 2XXX series (since 7XXX series are more expensive)
Man it really sucks how your videos are being completely blacklisted and throttled I followed you channel for a while then somehow became unsubscribed and every time I hit the subscribe button it instantly goes back to unsubscribed when I refresh the page... It would be awesome if you would be able to also upload content on somewhere like rumble or another platform that is not like censortube. I think a lot more people need to see this
Yeah, I'm thinking of adding all my content to rumble, so going forward I have a backup. Plus you never know, might do better over there. I appreciate the kind words brother.
Yeah it's a great idea and your dedication should not be taking for granted or let someone else take credit for your effort. May it pay off eventually.
I dislike that this channel is so undersub'd, but I like so much that I'm one of the happy fews. In France, the danger so far is not so much bullets as knives. I try to adapt your ideas to this danger.
Great job on this one. I know you put a ton of work in not only making the shield but filming it as well, just to destroy it inorder to show us your results. AMAZING JOB MY FRIEND. Hopefully this leads to an outstanding future for you and your family. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words brother. Lets pray that it leads somewhere. Honestly, I wouldn't mind just building and testing this stuff full time for a living, maybe one day.
Would of watched this sooner instead of eight days later if I'd known it got posted. Ya, great idea with the folding circle, pretty sweet.??? I'm thinking, although some of the nicer kevlars can be more expensive at about at least $70-$80 a yard or maybe a little more I think?, or at least wanting to test at least one with that, lol?, I might be more likely to test some ballistic nylon at about $20-$25 a yard, and hopefully test close to as good as the kevlar?, maybe some more duck tape???
Might be a little harder to incorporate a good strike face like ceramic or rocks, or fake rubies and sapphires, like the sapphire company that tested well on demolition ranch?, with the metal backing like I usually like with the folding, or with some possible good armor scale designs. It definitely looks marketable, I think I should get the military shield contract cuz I'm a lionen with lionentech though. And I'm gonna hopefully have a great time making my truncated cylinder steel shield lance with less area at the forge, although it's not as often that I watch a video of an american shooting a lock off a house instead of bashing it in ukraine but I have seen it, and hopefully finish it in less than forty years, lol. Or maybe some carbon fiber on the outside, like the futuristic shoulder gaurd or vambraces videos, which I'm not sure if it would stop .44 long barrel either, and not the most ballistic wave protection without metal, with hopefully not getting shot by 50 bmgs anyway? But I'm setting new personal bests with my exercises every other week, and I'm really liking my blue and gold katana, and hard headed veteran helmet as a pretty good helmet, even without the $1600 monocle.
Not that many people often consider the amount of organizing and business partnerships, with fake sapphire makers, rocks like a rock crab, or ceramic, tailors, after smithing all of the metal plates or machining the aluminum 7075 bracers and greaves of course most likely that can go into a set of well made armor, and possibly more attention to detail with scales that don't always fit in the typical format of making profit while thinking like a rock crab.
"Defense is the best offense!"
Great work good sir!
Hey everyone! I had an idea that I wanted to share with you. I was thinking about impact surfaces and it occurred to me that angle grinder discs would make a great option. They are made of a super hard material and have glass fibers inside to hold them together, which makes them ideal for absorbing impact. Plus, they come in really large and thick sizes and are affordable to buy. I think it's worth trying out as an option. Let me know what you guys think! And if it works out, credit where credit is due, right? ;)
please if you can try this
This channel just keeps getting better. Can't wait till you finally armor that car of yours!
best undersubscribed channel ive ever seen, amazing work sir, cant wait to see what you’ve done with your vehicle
Some ideas (take it for what its worth)
1. instead of using metal hinges (bulky) use a the same material your making the straps out of and use them as flexture hinges. I believe this will allow to reduce the thickness.
2. Maybe use a rotating center piece of steal to lock all sections in place. You rotate into locking tabs, this way you can lock all four sections at once.
3. Just go with a square sheild instead of round since it would add protection but not change the storage space by much.
The issue with shields is that you are loosing functionally of one hand. A plate carrier is a better option and more easier to conceal while in use.
On construction you really need a press to compress the laminations together. A hydraulic bottle jack and some steel plates would work. or buy a harbor freight shop press. OR a steel plate with some heavy bolts and an impact driver would work.
That’s not a good idea
CAD: Cardboard Added Design
Very cool project. I definitely see where there is major improvement in the hinges, especially in reducing bulk. Seems like some form of fabric hinge, or maybe with elastic would lower the weight and decrease the bulk.
Man! Ive never been one for copying someones idea, but that riot shield design is awesome!
Ill probably leave it floppy and not use hinges
another great video my man. this has some great potential in all kinds of areas. see ya in the next one. and, as always, thanks.
Thank you! More to come soon, gotta get the jeep going and finished.
@@Techthisoutmeow can't wait.
Rotating of the fibers is an excellent idea. I didn't even consider the added strength this could provide.
I need one of these when I make night-runs to the store. If the store people ask me what it is, I'll simply say, "it's a ballistic shield, to protect me from the ballistic public!".
Your hobby is only one order of magnitude away from becoming Batman
Just need the financing lol
Great video. Love the continued innovations and unique ideas you bring.
Agreed
To see this finished is so awesome!!
Great job on the shield, I'm glad you are posting again
Getting better all the time. Can't wait for the Jeep!
We finally need to see a 556 resistant shield!😁 An hdpe + fiberglass composite one similar to those from the Swiss company universal shields maybe
One of their full size models called SHARK is 28,7x19,7x1,2 inches (73x50x3cm) and weighs around 20,9 pounds (9,5kg) with all the cutouts.
glad to see youre still posting. just a heads up, i just picked up some balistic kevlar and uhmwpe from ali express for like 40$ each, enough to make 2 or 3 plates out of each. i think the safegaurd hyperline style of putting a few layers of kevlar and then a few layers of uhmwpe has kind of shown to be extremely durable. cant wait to do some experiments myself on the two in combination. maybe if this was made out of simmilar materials a few layers of kevlar themselves could act like the hinges. just a thought. thanks for uploading
Exellent use of S-grade layered multi directional fiberglass
The many folds weakens the structure, maybe a single fold down the middle would have been a better idea. The less folds, the better protection.
You had the luxury here to ad a strikeface, since its not flexible. Not necessary ceramic but a thin high hardness metal of 1mm hardox or hard aluminum would increase the stopping power greatly. Does not need to be 10mm porcelain, but just a few mm of something hard would do wonders.
I would have build a longer, rectangular shield with a single fold in the middle, still to be stuffed in a backpack. Using the angle of the two plates towards the enemy would with hardox 500 1mm greatly increases deflection of even ball rifle rounds. If you hold the shield carrying hand in front of you, you naturally create a triangle with your body. That way you get good frontal protection but also sides with less protection.
One thing I'd be curious about, would be a bookshelf bullet resistant shield. I think such a thing could be made extremely cheap, yet stop 7,62x39 easily! My emergency plans include using my bedroom as a safe room, where we'd be hunkered down behind a bookshelf.
Thoughts:
- fabric hinges would be a lot more compact than the metal hinges you used, and probably lighter.
- Nylon fabric as a tougher backing for the harder fiberglass.
- how does the fabric just stacked and sewn around the edge compare to the resin laminated composite in stopping power?
Great work thank you for all these cool videos
Man your channel is exactly one of my niche interests , diy armor. More so the shield , my idea was like gold in half but yours is dope too man, I want a way to be able to aim a rifle through it with maximum protection for me, got any ideas
I'd be interested in seeing the vehicle although love the rest as well. I've got a 2004 Crown Vic I'm wanting to armor up pretty heavily in the next couple years.
I would literally love to make or buy a shield like this
It's not a failure if you've learned something from it...all pitfalls become assets with the right thinking applied to it 😉
Outstanding build! And yes I too am planning to use cardboard as a form for some of my builds. So again I have a request for a video for your subscriber special sapi plate video series if you have time and resources to look into it I think I mentioned this on your last video.
If you could test a sapi or 3 different sapis using melted PET(Polyethylene Terepthalate) and fiberglass laminate with a porcelain strike face to see if it can stop even higher rifle threats than the HDPE one it would be much appreciated. My thinking is that a PET/fiberglass matrix composite would stop that 7.62x54R LPS round you've been trying to stop. I have detailed instructions for what I think might work to get PET plastic to melt without much difficulty if you're interested. Again thanks for the collapsible shield video!!
This is awesome, but I would recommend making it somehow able to be quickly put on your chest or back instead of handheld, in the past hand held wasn't an issue because most swords were one handed and the shield could be used offensively as well, but with guns you really need both hands especially in a crowded environment.
pistols are one handed
@@gamecubekingdevon3 not really, it is only really in point and shoot situations that are happening within a few yards that you can use a handgun effectively with only one hand, the almost all uses for revolvers and pistols alike demand two hands.
@@yorkleroy5605 most situations where shields are used are generally close range, indoor anyway
@@gamecubekingdevon3 true, but it is still much more effective to use two hands.
Maybe paint it so that people will be less inclined to shoot at the hinge in the centre
Honestly, that's a nice simple solution that I hadn't considered! Thanks for the suggestion!
@@Techthisoutmeow i stole the idea from silver-age batman. He needs to expose his mouth in his costume to emote, and his costume is unpowered unlike Lex's mech suit so it has to be light and flexable. But all of the Rogues gallery love their submachine guns. So Batman's solution is an all black costume with a prominent high contrast yellow bat symbol on the most heavily armoured part of his chest plate to encourage bad guys to target that and not his armpit or brain stem.
An equivalent for this shield would be to paint the shield all black including the hinges and then put a white dot in the quadrant that you have your hand behind. People will think they're targeting your face behind the shield but will strike the most strong and supported part of the shield.
Still it would be a tough day at work if people are shooting at your shield in any case.
My question is about the in application use. Put that shield on a pivot, like your arm. Won't you just deflect up to your face or down to your legs? Also impact damage, is it going to break your arm?
I wonder if the laminate had soft and really hard layers to spread absorb and slow the projectiles?
I always wonder if a thin layer of steel would stick to the bullet making it slightly fatter. Like the first layer it hits is a low carbon sheet like 20 gauge. And if it would coat the slower (pistol caliber) rounds. We could test this with just the sheet of metal and phone books. Try to find one that "sticks" to the bullet. I think that rifle rounds blow this kind of material away faster then it can stick. Though.
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I'd make this but with a reasonably thick steel backing
maybe you could use a 3/8 thick allu alloy instead of the composite? might increase a bit weight, but would be IIIA for sure without being that much thicker
Very true devon, I think we talked about this before right? I wonder how much that would be, cost wise. it would make the whole thing slimmer too.
@@Techthisoutmeow possible. worth noting that i said 3/8 because i expected the use of somehting like 5083 or 2XXX series (since 7XXX series are more expensive)
See brotha, this is what men do. AMEN lol
Dude .. yes
one quick note. Dont paint a bullseye ( reticle / aiming point ) on the front of your shield. Nothing like making yourself a target.
this is a ammor moment
THE ammor moment, kek.
Please try graphene powder in your resin to make it a lot stronger
Man it really sucks how your videos are being completely blacklisted and throttled I followed you channel for a while then somehow became unsubscribed and every time I hit the subscribe button it instantly goes back to unsubscribed when I refresh the page... It would be awesome if you would be able to also upload content on somewhere like rumble or another platform that is not like censortube. I think a lot more people need to see this
Yeah, I'm thinking of adding all my content to rumble, so going forward I have a backup. Plus you never know, might do better over there. I appreciate the kind words brother.
Broken Arm on impact?
deflection shield would be larger, fold tighter and be lighter
aim to deflect, not absorb
cone snow blow shaped shield
so that you naturally point the shield to the aggressor but the 45 angle surfaces point to sides
no need to stop the bullet, just deflect it, mirror it, away from you
the deflection will somewhat crush and slow down the incoming fire
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Man you're on it!
Brilliant! Copyright that thing. This is only gen 1…
Thank you! and yeah, I think with some polishing one might be able to sell a more refined design.
Yeah it's a great idea and your dedication should not be taking for granted or let someone else take credit for your effort. May it pay off eventually.
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I dislike that this channel is so undersub'd, but I like so much that I'm one of the happy fews.
In France, the danger so far is not so much bullets as knives. I try to adapt your ideas to this danger.
Two square ft of coverage 😹😹😹