Bro your channel is totally underrated, you should be at a few hundred Ks. Gonna be watching u religiously now.

Hopefully, your channel grows and you can get a slow mo camera. It would really help see what's going on with each shot.

I'm actually really impressed with your results. Well done.

the 2 dislikes are criminals wanting to rob an armored truck

Thanks for the vids. Made my own with a combo of your ideas. Was able to stop 5.56 62 gr FMJ at 50 yards with 2 pieces of 6mm glass and 3 pieces of 1/2 polycarbonate. It stopped at the second piece of polycarbonate. I was shocked. Took it apart and the lexal still hadn't cured after 2 weeks and letting it air out for 12 minutes before plying it. The lexel between the 2 pieces of polycarbonate appeard to not have cured at all. Making it for replacement glass for a military vehicle I own.

I used to work at a glazing company. We used to make our own armoured glass by gluing tones of layers of 3mm glass panels together and then stacking weight flat on top of them. Just thin layers of glass and glue becomes insanely tough once it reaches about 2 inches thick.

These are great videos. Well structured and easy to follow along with. I'm glad I found your channel and I hope it takes off, it deserves to.

A lawyer of glass on the front(2nd layer after polycarbonate) would probably act similar to a layer of ceramic does for your opaque armors Make sure you get anneled glass and not tempered

This would be a great high school science project, and so relevant! All the students get to make different varieties of bullet proof glass from acrylics/polycarbonate/glass/tempered glass and they have a contest to see which stops the most bullets from a random shooter and the winning design they can make and put in all the schools windows!

You should try clear epoxy instead of that Lexel glue stuff. Seems like epoxy would be a lot stronger and it will cure chemically by itself, you don't need to expose it to air for it to "dry".

Great video man! Very interesting. It sucks the materials are so expensive to intentionally destroy in order to test them. It makes you wonder what different combinations and thicknesses of materials and layers provides the best resistance to different calibers. Keep up the good work. Much enjoyed video.

So hdpe mixed with silicon carbide grit of various grit sizes to produce a plastic concrete

This is awesome, learned a lot and this is exactly what kind of video I was looking for.

It was hard to determine which of the 4 squares you were shooting, I didn't even realize you had changed them at once point. This is a great video, and it's very informative.

Hi just wanted to say thank you as you were the insperation for me copying my multicurve plates and making my own rifle rated ones. Its a very ambitious project i admit but your help as well as much other researching im finnaly going after it! Thank you so deerly :)

I love your stuff man, you inspire a lot of the armor I make! Have you ever considered making an iron man 1 like suit (from when he is in the cave) but from your different homemade armor plating and such?

This is great! I can't wait to see more! wishing you the best!

This videos are amazing! I've never done a project like this but you are filling me with confidence, making me want to try for myself. Thanks very much for making these.

Keep up the good work! I hope to see some more videos soon

Poly is EXPENSIVE!!

Awesome channel been watching for hours!

Very educational 👍 I'm jealous of your range , it looks like you just get to step outside the house right into the yard . I need to move .

It would be cool to see how these handled at angles. If you made a visor out of two pieces stuck together at a 30 degree angle, you might be able to stop a rifle from the angle the person is looking. I think this is mostly for windows, but still an interesting project.

Instead of clamping move to a vacuum bag method you'll have no bubbles you be able to do complex shapes there will be no pressure differentials even complex shapes shirt evenly in less time but the best part about it is all of your chemicals binders will be evenly dispersed because the vacuum effect makes it all impervious to gravity

Thanks a lot for this great research! Be inspired !!!

Just learned about you from TAOFLEDERMAUS, come back! I need more lol

Just found your channel. Good stuff man.

Man you deserve more subscribers You are awesome ..

This is awesome

Polycarbonate flexes, acrylic shatters but when the bullet hits the acrylic it's gonna exert the energy outwards in all directions, flimsy wood holding 2 sides won't contain the acrylic, if you had say a 3/16 or 1/4 inch thick plate welded around all corners as well as 2 inches on all edges on the witness and strike face side I'm sure it would've taken far more abuse, even better to cover the outer edges with thin rubber belting to add cushion between the plastic and metal

Very cool ... you'll figure it out one way or another..

Awesome frkn Work Guys!!🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙

Oh man a helmet build sounds amazing.

Good work guys. …Even though i hate that ppl test 12 ga with anything other than slugs. Buck shot will never do more than .38, or 9mm, or a slug. but 12ga slugs are unique animal.

Flexing on us with those Guns

for satellite protection they are using a very thin plate that Starts breakup of projectile before impact of satellite armoring - works amazing well - there is a video on yt about it

Great video as always! Curious as to which round will penetrate furthest into bullet resistant glass, 9 mil, .40 s&w, or .45 acp? Looking at experimenting with my own glass

Just learned about your site from watching Talfladermous testing your HDPE plates. Very good work you are doing. May I suggest using a vacuum pump and bag system to clamp your HDPE plates and polycarbonate items. I have not reviewed much of you material yet, perhaps someone has already suggested it.

Just found this channel from another channel, can’t wait for more videos!

Great work! Looking forward to another HDPE (hopefully with annealing?). Personally interested in more ballistic shield and helmet/mask projects!

Just Found Your Channel through Taefladermouse Awesome work Man!! I been researching this for a while!! Maybe a window film between layers to help a small amount...When I was in the Military I know when our BPA window glass had a gel like film inside after they were shot or blown up!😁 I wonder what it was!?

They use PVB (poly vinyl butil ) film to glue glass to plastic. It is opaque when new but get clear when heat is applied, it also glues when heat applied

Another glass to try is chemicaly hardened glass (like gorilla glass) . It may be produced at home (Applied science KZfaq did it) . Basically you get a plane of glass stick it in a metal container filled with potassium nitrid (or nitrate don't remember) and get it to 400+ °C for some time.

Idk how I’m only seeing this channel now? KZfaq algorithm must’ve been trying to suppress it? But awesome video! I look forward to seeing more of your projects come to light!

Yeah the Uparmourded glass had that stuff you use here. It was 9 pane.

Awesome

Hey there from a new subscriber! Thanks for the awesome vids! Would you be able to do a video on how to make "bullet resistant window film" or security window film as they are called?

It should be set up with the Poly on the putter layers and the acrylic inside + a piece that of real glass (closer to the outside of the acrylic - so like this: half polly, half acrylic, 3/8 glass, like car glass, half acrylic, 1/4 poly

Coolest channel dude

Try putting a metal frame with rubber seal that tightens down to hold pressure and it would probably work better but that is just a thought!!

Awesome video. Crazy that you could stop all those .44 mags

Cool

what are your opinions on pulling a vacuum on the stack as it cures? Do you think there would be an advantage? or just more issues than its worth (the bag tearing due to sharp edges, resin adhering to the bag, or curing issues because of no air)?

I'm curious about an armor plate with 1 layer thin ceramic, 1 layer of this polycarbonate, and then the fiberglass/resin backer. I would guess you could keep it about 1 inch thick total. Or even try the acrylic as a replacement for the ceramic, but I think the ceramic would be better for rifle rounds.

I know this is an old video, but for anyone who's considering attempting this, I have a suggestion. The clamping method could be improved. rather than clamping the edges, consider a bookbinder's press. It's designed to deliver pressure straight down and distribute that pressure evenly. I think that would eliminate the following issues. First, the sliding. if the plates are positioned in the center of the press, I don't think they will shift when clamped. Second, your delaminating issue. If you're correct that your issue was caused by having clamped too tight, a bookbinder's press would give consistent results. Third, uneven pressure should be mitigated. I've never tried any of this, but I think that would be an improved method for clamping flat panels, especially small ones such as those you've demonstrated. In addition, you said that your material was moldable and you wanted to make more complex forms, I think you could use something like a vacuum form table to clamp the layers together. Don't know. That may affect your bonding agent though. last thing. If you do choose to make complex forms, consider this. Your material has a thickness. What I mean to imply is this, the outside surface of your poly sheet will have a different form than the inside surface. You will need to make a different mold for each layer. If there are four layers, the inside of layer four should perfectly conform to the outside of form three, and so on. Figure out what you want your finished 'volume' to be, then work backward from there. Like I said though, I've never done this and there are probably flaws with my ideas, so consider the mechanics of everything I said before you do anything I said.

Have you thought about using the same material that are used to protect iphones and stuff.. sapphire glass sheets, I think it could do a lot of damage to the projectiles even using a relatively thin layers as a front

Suggestion, what about using many thin layers instead of two or three thick layers. This may help prevent a layer from cracking and taking out the whole piece.

Good Show (raising your algorithm)

Smart guy

Neat what you can do with plastic, how is your hdpe ballistic plates project going with the annealing process.

Have you looked at other transparent ceramics as a strike face? I wonder if nanodiamond powder mixed into the resin would do anything.

What about multiple thinner layers of the lexan/Lucite with the poly?

Nice job man. What would the difference be if on each piece of acrylic and pc a piece of bullet resistant film is put on? Would it wreck the clarity and would the pc and acrylic still be able to stick to each other? Do you have helmet plans? I'm working on a Maximus gladiator helmet and want some bp glass for the parts of the face not covered by the helmet, just don't like the thickness

Nice video! What is the name of the clay that you use in the back of every armor, for testing ? Thanks!

Hey just a comment on your helmet idea. What if the entire face was a solid rounded composite with no view to the outside but with aluminum mirrors redirecting light in such a way to see just fine. I believe this method might have the least amount of optical distortion if the alignment is right, you might have a much narrower view or maybe not depending on how its all shaped.

Hello! What if someone just layered the Acrylic/PC sheets in front of each other without gluing? Would that still stop bullets? Say for example you built some type of framed edging, then slid the sheets into it, no glue.

i may try a 2 part acrylic or polyurethane, and sand the sheets, but i'm not going for transparency, and may wrap them with kevlar or 1050d

Make one like the last one but seperate the layered slightly with a piece of poly framed between each layer and allow gas exits in the sides of each layer so expanding gas can exit somewhere else then the back

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So it seems the second one performed the best.

can lexel be used if add or use a regular or tempred galss to laminate it together? or lexel for only is just for acrylic and polycarbonate?

Im so curious what the results would have been if all the glass had been fronted by a sheet of glass... I think that would have made a big difference.. It would be like if you were to install it in peoples homes behind their ordinary windows.

Maybe surfboard resin might work as a binder it's clear and really strong

I Subscribed 👍 What if you used Clear Epoxy for the Bonding. Would it make it withstand Super Sonic Rounds?

Have you tried polycarbonate 1/4” affixed (somehow) to automotive glass? I’m interested in not replacing automotive glass but instead reinforcing the glass to stop a 9mm round.

What about aluminum oxynitride? Would it work well?

God I'm late 🤣 great video. I just turned three guys online on to your channel I hope it helps.

Hi - Instead of more powerful caliber - what would the less construction to handle 1-2 shots from a 9 mm - thanks Todd from South Africa

I've done professional driving and courier before. Was thinking of making a bulletproof divider.

I see you used Lexel. I can only find it as clear caulking. Is there a special kind that you used?

Havent heard from you in a while. Hope youre doing ok.

There's some type of plastic like window tint that is bullet resistant. ???

You should use resign to glue them together.

Hope you get patreon soon i can only imagine these videos are pricey to pyt together

How about using clear epoxy?

If it blew the backplate off though, it doesn't matter that it stopped the bullet, because now you have shards of the backplate strapping your eyeballs

You should try C-Bond Systems products

Hey what state are you in? I live in wa and am going to be building a ICF home with wall thicknesses of 12”. I want to build my own windows and am looking for the best way to do it. Are you in wa too? If so I’d like to buy some materials for you to test out for me.

Would be great for chronographs

Next time you take a deer with that revolver please record it, I'm pretty interested in see it, thanks.

What about using windshield glass out of a car that has that safety glass plastic layer inside thoughts essentially 2 layers of glass safety annealed glass with plastic lining. Shouldn't be too expensive for you if you went to a junkyard

I plan on making a ford raptor that has better and higher suspension and is bullet proof

Never heard a 44mag carbine make the same sound as a 9mm before. Maybe just the mic.

wtf is that backstop? the top you are just shooting blind through some boards

I wanna see the helmet design!!!!

That 1911 is an affront to john browning

help me understand: why use acrylic or plexi at all? why not just use more polycarbonate?

Have you found any source for AlON powder? I'm also curious as to where you got pricing for finished thicknesses.

Please state ar berral length 16 or 20 becouse it matters

This vid is 3yrs old. Did you stop experimenting? Folks seem to appreciate your efforts. One commenter suggested using resin between layers, another suggested using say, 1/16th layers, kinda like layers of fiberglass used in homemade bulletproof panels. I don't have guns or a place to test. Some of us rely on folks like yourself. Cheers!!