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Posted: 9/24/2012 8:12:18 PM EDT
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I wonder how cutting and using a car tire would work in despalling.
Cut it. Figure out a good way to flatten and secure it to the steel plate. Test it out. I dont have steel plates but I would like to get some but worry about Spalling and I dont have the funds to purchase Kevlar or Ceramic. |
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Thick and heavy, probably not very workable, and definitely inferior to ballistic fabric. I am usually big fan of unorthodox ideas with armor, but I think this is a terrible one.
You can get sheets of Kevlar, Twaron, or Spectra on eBay and despall your plates for about $5-10 per plate. Do that. |
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Thick and heavy, probably not very workable, and definitely inferior to ballistic fabric. I am usually big fan of unorthodox ideas with armor, but I think this is a terrible one. You can get sheets of Kevlar, Twaron, or Spectra on eBay and despall your plates for about $5-10 per plate. Do that. Would I apply the sheets to the plate with epoxy and then duct tape the sides? |
| That's about the sum of it, yeah. A couple of other members on here have used such materials in despalling, I personally used 3 layers of Spectra over some truck bedliner. Make sure the material overlaps the edges, duct tape to the back of the plate and you're good to go. If you check back a couple pages you should find their info and testing. |
| Not sure where you could get any but we had a piece of Conveyor belt rubber(about 1/2" thick, used in the mining industry) that would stop a .22lr out of a handgun every time from just a few feet away, I would say it has a good chance of stopping fragments and it is flat so you could work with it |
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