Originally posted by aldra
Unrelated, wanted to catch you before you got banned again
any thoughts on effective DIY body armor? steel plates seem to be the way to go but it'd be a waste of effort to go to the trouble then get your throat cut by spalling or some shit
for something you wear, with the prices of AR500...or AR1000...being so cheap theres no reason to improvise. for full ghetto-fabulosity, at the lowest price-point, you can buy AR500 targets in any size up to 4-feet by 4-feet...but they dont have anti spall coating. anti-spall coating on some steel plates is literally 'rhino-liner' or 'line-x'...but if you bought the bare steel target then had a commercial company coat it, the price would be higher than just getting the actual armor plate from a body armor manufacturer. on a side note, ive used 'herculiner' on thin (1/8") regular cold-rolled steel plates in very very thick layers and it survived being beaten with a 4lb mini-sledge. i dont know how that would equate to a bullet impact.
even the kevlar/spectra/dyneema/plastic plates that are so expensive arent too badly priced compared to the effort required to make something improvised.
i made a kevlar speaker box for my old truck that was literally bullet proof (I tested it with a .45 when i sold the truck) but the price for the kevlar cloth and epoxy was a couple hundred dollars more than just buying a III (ish) vest
not counting the hours and hours spent fabricating it.
anyone that uses steel...or even ceramic/plastic/aramid/whatever-else as their body armor needs to have a trauma plate behind the steel.
