I would greatly appreciate it if you guys shared this video. Also, here's a link to my discord for those who are interested in joining: discord.com/invite/CrZGHYsmwh
@Eidolon1andOnly8 ай бұрын
What about using ordinary glass marbles or ball bearings, or both, instead of ceramic?
@Eidolon1andOnly8 ай бұрын
What about a layer of fiberglass between each layer of balls?
@Eidolon1andOnly8 ай бұрын
What about trying to use silica dessicant beads?
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Also, huge thanks to Chris for coming out and shooting with me. If you want to check out his channel here, it is:youtube.com/@christopherkirish?si=bB5QhB4o7Zqs7Atl
@implausibleimpossiblehypot40067 ай бұрын
Do you think that fine shards of a hard ceramic or metal added to your resin would help shred bullet fragments while traveling
@DillonWaffles8 ай бұрын
Wow. We’ve all just been christmased. What a heck of a fella.
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas!
@johnladuke64756 ай бұрын
You might see interesting improvements if you include fabric layers between your packed layers of spheres. Make a little layer cake with fabric on the faces and you might see less fragments flying out of the plate. I wonder if layering fabric might improve the performance of the smaller diameter beads.
@jeremymcadam740013 күн бұрын
I keep imagining balls simply being pushed out, haven't watched the vid yet but that would definitely be a good idea
@minhducnguyen92769 күн бұрын
Yes. Just like with the tank armor which this armor gets inspiration from, The ceramic balls should not come in direct contact with each other otherwise they'll collide with each other when hit can cause cracking of the balls.
@MrJangleo8 ай бұрын
Sounds like you need a 3d printer to make those molds. Would be cheap and easy even if you outsourced it. Also have you considered using plastic/metal chicken wire to hold the balls in matrix. I have done research on LIBA and other ceramic ball armor before, Its been a while but i remember that the minimum required diameter to stop a threat being 50-75% (my memory is leaning towards 75% though) of the diameter of the projectile striking the ball. Have you also considered using cylindrical/cylpeb media HCP stacked with spheres.
@christopherkirish8 ай бұрын
I think he works with someone that has a 3d printer.. I bet it would look great in a clear-ish mold as well...
@zer0nix8 ай бұрын
If he's casting aluminum anyway, he could just make the molds out of aluminum using a lost wax / foam method, where carved wax/foam is packed into sand and molten aluminum is poured in to take its place. I don't know if the armor could be made that way though, where the balls are stacked and then sealed in wax. That would be really interesting to see!
@death313138 ай бұрын
I had a really similar idea, but I never tried making any armor pieces to test. I guess the Soviets beat me to it before I was even born. Really cool stuff, thank you for taking the time to test this stuff.
@jeremymcadam740013 күн бұрын
To be fair the Soviets beat us all in everything, except the ability to make money
@DannySullivanMusic8 ай бұрын
This video made for a nice Christmas present!
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Thanks brother, hope you enjoy. Merry Christmas!
@richardjohnson80098 ай бұрын
What a coincidence, we had the same idea, thinking further I would say that potentially the gaps between balls could be problematic, my second thought was maybe cubes* arranged in a diamond 2 layer configuration with 45 degree angles outward would be more ideal, the idea would be that the projectile is turned which makes it easier to catch with composites or fibers because the increase in surface area distributes the forces, another one I wanted to try would be just rocks in a matrix like the smooth pebbles you can get at home depot. great video!
@RavemastaJ8 ай бұрын
Looks like a great material for leg/arm armor. Great time to release it! Merry Christmas!
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
I do like how you can easily cast this stuff into different shapes. The possibilities are endless!
@Sol_Invictus7778 ай бұрын
depends on how heavy they would be
@RavemastaJ8 ай бұрын
@@Sol_Invictus777 He lists how heavy they are in the PDF.
@Sol_Invictus7778 ай бұрын
@@RavemastaJ thanks
@calebbearup42828 ай бұрын
I was watching a video recently on applying cooler than air paint to surfaces and in it the author broke down the exact ratio of size balls to fill up the space the most. I don't recall now obviously but if you put in balls that were 10mm in diameter then balls the size of sand it wouldn't let the epoxy in between. But maybe if you did something the size of 10mm then filled in the spaces with something 3mm then poured the epoxy on/in you'd have less risk of the bullet passing through pure epoxy while also staying thin
@TheFredmac8 ай бұрын
Composite panels have a honeycomb sandwiched between cloth and resin faces. One material used for the honeycomb is aluminum. The aluminum honeycomb is made with gluing together sheets. The glue is put on the sheets in stripes so that when the sheets are pulled it creates the honeycomb. An aluminum honeycomb would hold the balls in place while the resin is applied. I think this would be an easy way to make curved plates. Also, the arrays of balls could be stacked to eliminate holes.
@rheymans7 ай бұрын
Simply cannot wait for 2.0 of this video. Wow. This is leaps and bounds above the level of innovation we’re getting in what IMO are the best plates on the market right now. Love the info. Keep it coming!!!
@rheymans7 ай бұрын
Would also be curious to see a smaller diameter triple stacked. Based on that stacking research it looks like the third layer completely fills the voids left by the first two. If you had 3-4 layers of 3 or 4 mm ceramic it would still be light and flexible, but cover all the gaps. I’m curious if it might create smaller fragmentation areas making it even more multi-hit capable. This has my brain going! Thanks so much for this work!
@timwestberg23888 ай бұрын
Flex seal is only good for making row boats out of screen doors.
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
For real! Man, that stuff is junk, lol. I hate it so much
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
The paste was ok for coating though
@timwestberg23888 ай бұрын
@@Techthisoutmeow I hadn't gotten to that part of the video yet when I commented. I enjoy watching your process and hope to see your channel keep growing. Looking forward to seeing more of your vehicle project. Hope you are having a merry Christmas.
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
@timwestberg2388 Thanks, brother! Merry Christmas to you as well. I'm excited about the vehicle build, I got some fun designs that I think everyone will appreciate.
@camarad7778 ай бұрын
Finally !
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
It's a Christmas miracle! Lol, hope you like it
@michaelborror43998 ай бұрын
Maybe I'll get around to banging some of these industrial ductile steel 1/4" 4×10"s into scales one of these days, sure is a fun hobby though?, and sounds like some scales kinda like overlapping u's not like the newer hexagonal "dragon scales" could be good too though, although the light and probably fluffier so in a thinner layer, pressed hard wood experiment on nile red or somethin 2 or 3 months ago was pretty cool too, too bad it seems harder to make it out to the forge or harder aluminum 7075 machining table with lionentech or maybe dark mane forgeworks is more expensive and challenging these days, but drinking my alkaline water with rock minerals and not getting calf cramps or stiff jaw muscles when yawning at the watering well is pretty great anyway too? Great work though! And I'm definitely liking my nice lt rucksack and helmets even though my dad got me a leather luggage duffel? And when I think I'm glad I didn't get the expensive thermal monocular; I realize I probably just lose money in the stock market with the corporations goin on strike anyway, lol? Think I have some of that symtac resin and alot of some other type resin that hopefully won't go bad anytime too though? I got everybody miniature carrying cases that are pretty great as presents making for nice decorations even if you don't wanna play warhammer or whatever in the beginning I think at a certain age too though?
@unprofessionalgopnik68278 ай бұрын
Best Christmas gift
@BuckF0eJiden8 ай бұрын
Something you may consider is "doping" your ceramic strike face with tungsten carbide balls. Use the 10mm aluminum ceramics, with 3mm (1/8") tungsten carbide balls filling in the gaps. The Tungsten Carbide balls are pretty heavy, but they're extremely hard. Rockwell C90, if memoru serves. Theyre also fairly inexpensive in comparison to Zirconia ceramics. Ive found Tungsten Carbide balls at 1/8" as cheap as $80 for a 100 pack. Lay the tungten balls down first with a thin layer of your casting media just covering them, then stack your aluminum ceramics in w hexagonal packing arrangement over them. Basically, your Tungsten would be the first contact, followed by the aluminum. Id also wrap my plate, including the strike face, in Kevlar or Fiberglass, including the backer. This will help prevent delamination, and spall.
@Zane-It8 ай бұрын
It's a Christmas miracle
@Plastikdoom7 ай бұрын
Like your updates on your armor journey, definitely interesting with the ceramic balls. A tip for the resin portion, if you have it slightly angled when pouring like you said, but tape a back massager to the bottom and have it on as you pour, and maybe pour a little slower, shouldn’t have any significant airbubbles in it, I used to do concrete and we used big ass vibrators to remove air in walls and such. They could make your arms go numb as hell on large pours. Anyways I commented a few times back in the day, about plates I made, and how they were armored, seems like you used some of what I said, combined with other comments I seen and your own ideas, so pretty cool. I’d be interested in seeing one of these done with the 6mm ones, but separation inbetween the two layers by a little bit, with like hdpe, or Kevlar or good fiberglass mat with resin inbetween them, them more mat of your choice behind the second layer, maybe a couple layers on the face too, then balls and resin, repeat, with the face piece long enough to go up the sides, fold over and be resin soaked, with a backer plate of mat full width, as an attempt to help hold it all together after taking multiple hits.
@ohslowpoke47208 ай бұрын
Encasing two layers of ceramics in a thin layer of cast Aluminum to hold the balls to mimic the setup used by by the T-64's turret, and then further encasing that in HDPE and a fibre backer/front to contain fragments of aluminum and ceramics would probably make something interesting. I'm someone that studies vehicle-type armors and it's sort of interesting that you're taking inspiration from them as much as from infantry-armors. Modern light AFVs used perforated ultra-high high hardness steels, often mixed with thin ceramics as "outer" layers to breakup the incoming round or cause the penetrator to "yaw" (aka, shift violently from side to side) before it impacts the main layer of the armor to reduce it's effectiveness. I always wondered if something similar to chobham-type armor (thin plates of steel arranged at angles) to 'catch' and ablate the incoming projectile wouldn't work- the Russian T-55 had a very simplified version of this as add-on armor which was a bunch of thin plates with epoxy resin in between each layers, effectively forcing the projectile to tilt as it had to break the surface of each plate.
@sumguysrКүн бұрын
Indium/Tin is a very easy to cast alloy with high stiffness and record setting tan-delta
@billdomb7 ай бұрын
Nice piece of WORK! Any data on weight per square in of each variety?
@Techthisoutmeow7 ай бұрын
Sure is! If you look at the pdf I made with this video, you can see all the weights listed for each plate. The pdf link can be found in the description for the video.
@MilGrip763 ай бұрын
This was very well done. Comprehensive and engaging. Hope you have a creative outlet in your day job for all that brain power 👍
@jarmann87277 ай бұрын
Dude I need more I’ve listened to this video 3 times now. Very informative and cool.
@Techthisoutmeow7 ай бұрын
Thanks, brother. I'll be revisiting this concept soon. First, I gotta finish this vehicle armor system that people have been waiting for. I might use this method for some sample tiles for the vehicle, depending on if I can get the materials in time.
@jwdoryАй бұрын
Great video. Very thorough testing. 👍 Try porcelain tetrahedron media. Another test would be alternating layers of kevlar, carbon fiber and or fiberglass.
@jeffhuntley29218 ай бұрын
Modular car armor sounds awesome
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
I'm very excited to showcase that concept! I've been tossing around that idea for some time, and now I'm finally ready to finish construction of it and finalize testing.
@ReavinBlue8 ай бұрын
So the ideia is 8mm and 10mm double stack, porcelain and alumina, with the resine I forgot the name but its slightly harder, and a kevlar backer! Right? we might aswell start telling other youtubers and users to just START TESTING! you've been carrying this community on your back!
@jeffhuntley29218 ай бұрын
Amazing amount of data! Awesome
@doprisi8 ай бұрын
Think the biggest strength of this arrangement with the elastomer resin with embedded spheres, was its capabilities in not blowing apart and proof to be a real good multi-hit strikeface. Good and insightful video Tech, only thing i kinda missed is close up of all the hits with what bullet.. How buffman makes the final tear down of the sapi plates he tests, where you get a good view of the damage!
@sirusgalt59318 ай бұрын
Great video. Keep simple priorities to stay on track like consistent armor rating, low cost materials, weight, thickness, flexibility.
@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz8 ай бұрын
Not that you need notes, I'm so impressed. This is a, "This is genius why has it taken this long" scenario. But; Two Notes. Intersperse smaller rounds between the larger ones. On both sides to tighten up the matrix. Or, at least in the strike face. Second? This is awesome, you could make molds for a full body suit at home and the cost it should be low enough that anyone could afford to make and maintain it. You know, like a cyberknight. I didn't want to say this but upon further consideration? It probably might need a thin sheet metal to pre-deform the bullet as well. But, I'm talking perfection at that level.
@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz8 ай бұрын
! Scalemail.
@laimonasrake83678 ай бұрын
North Holywood here I come
@zer0nix8 ай бұрын
Bold of you to think north Hollywood isn't taking notes. If this armor is affordable enough... Hey come to think of it, sheet metal might also help deflect an explosion. A thin layer wouldn't be enough on its own (unlike titanium, as demonstrated by tested with Adam Savage) but in combination with armor like this, who knows? Most likely it will just send those porcelain balls into your flesh though.
@MoonMoon-gu2ge8 ай бұрын
Always excited to see a new episode! Merry Christmas 🎅
@MidnightSon983 ай бұрын
I’d be interested in seeing how going with smaller balls stacked higher would work out. MSE sells 1mm and 2mm, stacked 10 high the 1mm would be stacked about as high as a single stack 8mm, and since each individual ball is just as hard and just as dense, the same amount of energy should be expended on a 1mm ball as an 8mm ball. Admittedly I could just be bad at physics though
@Th3_Gael8 ай бұрын
Nile red with bulletproof wood video an hour long and a meow ceramic video, an hour long. It sure is Christmas folks
@Jdub80258 ай бұрын
You could also probably 3-D print a tray with little indentations like a primer, flip tray, except in a different pattern to start your hexagonal base layer
@mistaBorg8 ай бұрын
I remember I said something about armor plate balls along time ago but I didn't think it'd work this well. maybe trying to layer them even more like in voids between three balls of 10mm you could insert a small 4 or 3mm, or just layer them further than in the vid, in layers of balls like first layer only 10mm second layer 8mm third layer 6 mm, this could help avoid pockets without armor. I also got into the idea of weaving kevlar fibers with metal fibers like in steel wool, it is time consuming but it could solve delamination issues that would occur in simple layer to layer adhesion.
@DamienHanma8 ай бұрын
Best Christmas gift... MORE ARMOUR VIDEOS! 🛡️🔰
@jndvs956 ай бұрын
Ive been putting a lot of thought into HDPE plates and my theory of the best system is a thinner layer of ceramics on top of a thicker block of HDPE wrapped in the fiberglass. I've thought about throwing a thinner layer of steel behind the HDPE but i dont want too massive of a plate. Weight is not as much of a concern for me as I am a reasonably big guy. If im throwing plates on though, I have too many responsibilities to worry about mobility over protection.
@backwoodsbrooksknives46258 ай бұрын
I had an idea to use ceramic beads from a bead blaster. I was thinking of using them in between layers of Kevlar and carbon fiber roving and epoxy.
@GalloPazzesco6 ай бұрын
God Bless you. Subscribed, bell rung, commented, upvoted, liked, shared, commented,upvoted, liked, shared,.... may the algorithm gods smile favorably upon your channel.
@pyeitme5088 ай бұрын
AWESOME!
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Thanks, hope you enjoy.
@wj60638 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas!🎄🎁🎀
@sbrunscheon7 ай бұрын
This is a ridiculously well presented experiment. Truly impressed and eagerly await what further designs you will test!
@ReavinBlue8 ай бұрын
Oh HOW I HAVE WAITED!
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Yeah, sorry for the long wait. The next one shouldn't take 6 months before uploading lol.
@cinnabar86108 ай бұрын
Marry Christmas!🎉
@sinisterthoughts28968 ай бұрын
What a great Christmas gift! Merry Christmas! Love that sweater, and fantastic research.
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was fun compiling all this information down. I love that sweater as well.
@aquariumengineer8 ай бұрын
Thanks for putting your time, ideas and money into these tests!
@Jdub80258 ай бұрын
This article would be a great read for you when it comes to considering different types of silicon nitride balls if you ever went that route. Even if you did a mix where the 3 mm gaps were filled with them or had them as your contact later, because you could decrease material density in layers as the projectile losses velocity saving cost while remaining within your priorities to fit your goals
@zer0nix8 ай бұрын
I wonder how steel bbs would do perhaps to fill in gaps! Being hollow they won't add much weight, and the deformation should absorb a lot of energy! Also I think I read about a tank armor that was essentially steel bbs encased in aluminum - which also should be easy to make since aluminum melts at an easily achievable temp!
@ChucksSEADnDEAD7 ай бұрын
EDIT: silly me, this was mentioned in the video ahahah Some T-64/T-72 armor was also cast iron with embedded ceramic spheres. The early attempts failed because the ceramic balls were held in place by steel mesh and the heat from the cast melted it. Took a few years to get it right.
@Killer_Space_2726-GCP8 ай бұрын
Very good video, very interesting results!
@nickdavis54208 ай бұрын
This is interesting your getting to the flexibility of a possible power armor component .
@benedictpasco6538 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Wow, you didn't have to do that. I appreciate the kindness, brother. That's very thoughtful of you.
@pauliewalnuts52418 ай бұрын
Glad to see you back friend
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Thanks brother, next video will be sooner than 6 months, lol. I actually have another finished, just have to finalize the edits.
@non-applicable35488 ай бұрын
Merry Christmas!
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
And to you as well
@abdulalibux14167 ай бұрын
Thank you. I will be designing and making my own armor and armored vehicle this year.
@hardstylelife57494 күн бұрын
That was some great work. Your pdf is truly well done and exhaustive, a fine job, bravo. if I may ask, did you ever tested polycarbonate sheets?
@richardhicklin51407 ай бұрын
vacuum forming might help with the first optioins
@paulishism6 ай бұрын
Hemispheres might be a better shape to use. Their flat base would offer more resistance than a round face. Being half the size means that you would get twice as many layers. You would also end up with a pyramid effect where 2 layers of spheres would turn into 16 hemispheres at the bottom, or instead of damaging a single sphere the bullet actually hits 30 different hemispheres.
@skullthrower89048 ай бұрын
Youre a real ballistic alchemist look at those BALLS lmao Merry christmas friend 😁
@gamecubekingdevon38 ай бұрын
merry christmas !
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
To you as well Devon.
@twestgard25 ай бұрын
Amazing results. Congratulations
@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz8 ай бұрын
Downloaded. I don't think I can thank you enough.
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
It's not a problem. I hope it helps. I plan on making more of these for bigger projects. So check back later!
@erikh86856 ай бұрын
Amazing!
@BuckF0eJiden8 ай бұрын
Ideally, for multiple sized balls, you'd want your smaller size to fit between the gaps of the bigger ones. You could go a step further and fill those gaps with powdered silicon carbide, but at that point, I doubt you'd get much benefit... but maybe? Either way, GREAT idea for SRT armor at least.
@christopherkirish8 ай бұрын
Finally...!!!!
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Don't I get enough of you at work?
@roblund828 ай бұрын
Nice christmas gift. Thank you
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Your welcome, glad you enjoyed it
@wanderer73618 ай бұрын
So syntactic foam then. Neat. Edit: Just saw the end - look up syntactic titanium.
@gsestream8 ай бұрын
outstanding, also a second channel if you feel urge to put out unfiltered material on the side, like meow 2. so how about the sand mixed with resin tile sand bags. sand resin direct cast would be the easiest and fastest manufacturing process. yes plastic concrete cast in as tiles plates cloth etc. or plastcrete for fun naming. maybe a compilation of the best results as a conclusion as a release. sand spheres are very small tho. and a happy new year! :)
@gsestreamАй бұрын
Try dvd's as interleaved polycarbonate discs armor
@dagonatorish6 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing all your research! I’ve run across an inexpensive and lightweight fabric you might be interested in trying (I will also tinker with it) Malarkey Secure Start Plus Underlayment for roofs. It seems to be very durable but lightweight. I’m curious about how it will do with me reducing the number of layers of Kevlar or fiberglass cloth. I will use in combination with porcelain tiles and kydex to start and laminate with Kevlar.
@Modern_Warrior_School3 ай бұрын
@Techthisoutmeow I wonder how a plate with layers that slanted within the plate would perform. It would certainly pose some challenges when it comes to making them, but I'd think it would do one of two things. 1, depending on velocity the round may be more likely to deflect (probably within the plate itself which would make the round need to go through more material to penetrate the cab). If this is the case you could effectively use less materials for the same stopping power. On the other hand since the round would basically be impacting the edge of the plate, it may be inherently weaker. I can see it going either way.
@Xyg0t2 ай бұрын
How about using a stainless steel mesh layer at the front layer to stiffen and help break up the round. Not sure how effective it would be but I've always thought about using that to make a plate, maybe multiple layers.
@DylanDraper18 ай бұрын
This concept was mentioned in the black autumn book series, I have been curious about it
@jonatanjenen35738 ай бұрын
About time for an upload jkjk love you bro
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Yeah, I'm hoping to have another video up sooner than 6 months this time.
@marsiloficino50607 ай бұрын
Awesome shirt!
@brynduffy6 ай бұрын
Aluminum oxide is 50% heavier than porcelain. 3.6 grams per centimeter cubed versus 2.4 grams per centimeter cubed. So the question is, does aluminum oxide provide 50% more protection?
@Hati3218 ай бұрын
I love this channel.
@Techthisoutmeow8 ай бұрын
Thanks, more to come soon!
@Plastikdoom7 ай бұрын
As to length of the video, for me personally you could make this video 4 hours long and I’d watch it from start to finish, but I’m weird like that. And love off the wall shit like this, because it’s the same things I generally think about and do at times. So far, the best, as in most bang for your buck in effectiveness, cost and weight I’ve found is your good ol bondo 12oz woven fiberglass mat, you get about as much performance as you can expect out of fiberglass, st low cost and easy to afford, with the lowest weight you’re gonna find that performs. Sore better options for glass mat…but cost goes up pretty quick and weight too. To the point you’d be better off just getting Kevlar as better performance and lower weight with only a little more cost. Compared to high end boat glass mat.
@Plastikdoom7 ай бұрын
And as far as casting aluminum…you’ll want high mag content, then have to heat treat for optimal results, that will give you close to steel levels. Obviously lighter, but…if you could do cast steel, with the ceramic inside, much better…but a lower cost and just as good. Not to mention easier option, using a harder/more plastic resin, with just enough to cover the balls…then sandwich them inbetween steel plates, and stitch weld in place, with ceramic strike face being slightly compressed will great strengthen the steel plate and make the steel and ceramic perform better than on their own. Or not being sandwiched so tightly…just saying. That method honestly works better for flat tiles. Or rods of ceramic though. Be interesting to see though with balls, and maybe an epoxy instead of soft/flexible resin or plastic resin. Like a concrete anchor epoxy that unused in my plates, do the same thing but sandwich and weld under pressure…I just used mechanical clamps, and 3 layers of 16 GA carbon sheet metal, each layer planished. With only epoxy holding them together and clamps as it set for days, to ensure full cure, plus couldn’t get to testing until a couple days after I wanted too. And they performed phenomenally. I’m looking to revisit with a couple things I learned since then. And more importantly tools I didn’t have access to, that I do now. When I did my hard core tests…was 12-13 years ago, I didn’t have all the tools and equipment I do now. I’m looking to go less composites in some places, maybe different grade of composites, and definitely differing layers of steel, most likely planished then annealed and either face hardened/through hardened and tempered…with a thicker layer of backing steel. Doing that. Should, outperform my previous plate. But shit also costs a lot more than then, I could make a full size plate and side plate for $95 dollars…in 2011, that out performed the ESAPI’s I was issued. And carried before that. So $190 dollars would get you two normal sized plates, front and back and two side plates, standard size, aka medium, in 2011 bucks. I haven’t looked at the price of doing it again lately, but I’m guessing about twice the cost nowadays, plus the amount of work I plan on putting into them, and the tools needed, of you didn’t have them, it’d be equal cost or cheaper to buy plates that do as good/slightly worse than making them I’m guessing. So if you only want one set of plates, cheaper to buy good, proven ones. I’m doing this more for curiosity and to see how viable it is, to make the absolute best plates, out commonly available, relatively cheap materials. And some tools like welders and good clamps/hydraulic presses, heat treating with torches, etc. just to see if I can make one that out performs even more, with different techniques and tools, same materials overall. And more time invested
@joseantoniosalazar46408 ай бұрын
Nice.
@BrokeWrench8 ай бұрын
The porcelain crushing/shattering would have disapated a lot of energy where the alumina would have redirected but not disapated the energy
@tokyowarfare67295 ай бұрын
could you try in onen of your armors to add pre stresed strains? similar as done in construction for large spans. Strech the strains without pouring resin and once cure cut them. This would get the plate compressed Horizontal and Vertically. I believe this could reduce bullet penetration by causing higher friction needed to penetrate. I may be wrong do, just an idea.
@adcaptandumvulgus42528 ай бұрын
Also, aluminum bronze is almost as strong as steel and you can cast it still.
@robertsimpson63248 ай бұрын
Way thing's are going this information may e of use thank you
@milekhh8 ай бұрын
Gift for Christmas!
@Max-om7bk7 ай бұрын
I'm curious if you had more thoughts about why the porcelain performed so well compared to actual ballistic ceramic material?
@IrzumMalik6 ай бұрын
Hello sir, Selam from pakistan. I love what you are doing, i have my textbook with armor ideas and many of them are similar to yours. One more I will share is the use of different grit of Alumna or ceramic balls to get a better packing density, i.e. a smaller ball that can fit easily between the gaps of 4 balls. Another idea i have written is to make sandpaper armor. Is it possible? Sloped sand paper armor. I hope you play with the geometry of the ceramics in the future as well. I am gonna binge watch all your videos backwards. Hail the algorithm gods who suggested this to me!! and thankyou!
@tinkeringclaws55596 ай бұрын
noice!
@benyannay58293 ай бұрын
Id say its Time to try making 3a helmets
@DavidSmith-vz9uu8 ай бұрын
Have you figured out the annealing process of hdpe yet. Just wondering, it sounds like you have.
@Techthisoutmeow7 ай бұрын
I have a bit, I've tried three methods, sand, plaster, and keeping in mold. I want to do a full head to head comparion soon. I just haven't found the time yet. Once I finish this vehicle armor system that I'm currently working on, I'll return to hdpe.
@DavidSmith-vz9uu7 ай бұрын
@@Techthisoutmeow Awesome that's exciting! I look forward to seeing that. Everything you do is like nothing else on KZfaq, I appreciate your content on homemade armor, you are the most thorough with testing and explaining how to make armor. I've pretty sure I've watched all the other big channels on this content and nothing comes close.
@everythingballistic88126 ай бұрын
this could be a dumb idea but what if you used prince ruperts drops instead of the other stuff(didnt feel like spelling) cause that could work really well. you could make a bunch of them and the break the tail off ( some would be lost this way).
@darkenblade9867 ай бұрын
results at 39:00 I do rec you watch the rest of the video tho.
@matthewfergusons43186 ай бұрын
Have you ever tried using some of the reasons that they use and make a dioramas and some models that stuff
@jonathanpawlowski36266 ай бұрын
@techthisoutmeow hey what do you think about trying melted hdpe forced into ceramic wool. Cant afford to try myself.
@primarycolorman7 ай бұрын
Have you considered trying this with crushed fireplace glass? Or adding a harder strike face to strip jackets?
@glenn191005 ай бұрын
It would be great to use this to design a helmet.
@ATruckCampbell8 ай бұрын
I wonder if the porcelain balls can be substituted with cast iron balls, as it is cheaper and still very hard.
@jimmyslim16288 ай бұрын
Any idea how to figure how heavy it would be to armor an entire car? 4 door Crown Vic. Both doors, firewall, inside the entire trunk. I'd guess maybe 300 pounds but maybe I'm way off.
@zer0nix8 ай бұрын
The firewall shouldn't be necessary since the engine is so massive, according to tests by Paul Harrell. As someone who has been looking into custom building an RV, the weight adds up pretty quickly!
@Techthisoutmeow7 ай бұрын
Funny enough, my next set of videos is all about vehicle armor! I've been developing a full vehicle armor system for some time, and I'm finally dropping it. So stay tuned. First, I'll be doing an update video outlining the project. It'll also have a full pdf like this project did!
@adcaptandumvulgus42528 ай бұрын
Since resident heats up whenever you mix it do you think if you mixed up a stick of hot glue it would be hot enough to incorporate it and make it even enough to spread consistently?
@oliverevans3637 ай бұрын
What about is you use tpu instead like what it increase flexibility or what other affects it would have on liba armour
@codyway74247 ай бұрын
Very nice work! Couple of questions. Based on where you are now, what would you predict the weight and thickness to be for a 10x12" with the 8mm porcelain with the fiberglass backer?
@Armor-Innovations5 ай бұрын
Have you thought about trying sapphire? I cant find a cheap source but maybe you can.
@DevinMcfarlain7 ай бұрын
What about using layers of alumina powder as well?