Diy Ceramic Tile Ballistics Shield

A high gloss ceramic tile maintains its shiny texture indefinitely giving your floor a shiny clean appearance even if you have not had time to sweep and mop.

Diy ceramic tile ballistics shield.

I go over the complete process for making composite armor tabs at home. Overtime it can discolor and look unsightly. Ripping out ugly shower tile is an expensive and labor. The big problem is usually dealing with the weight.

Ceramic tile is prized for its moisture resistance and durability but can be a problem if the tile lasts so long it becomes dated or ugly. Homemade ballistic shield made from 12mm thick ballistic fibreglass panels used in banks booths its heavy at around 40lbs but offers up to nij l3a my estim. Spread a coat of heat resistant epoxy mortar on the backerboard. C sic ceramic metal composite.

Tile and grout is porous and as a result absorb mineral deposits soap scum body fats and grime making the surface very difficult to clean. No bullets got through the plate. The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate. The repellent nature of enduroshield provides the protection of a general grout sealer but will also repel water and oil based stains.

When going from one room to another especially from tile to another type of flooring use transition strips to cover the flooring seams. Shooting the diy plate armor. Let the mortar cure for 24 hours grout the tiles and remove the bottom shim. The ceramic tile was demolished.

Unfortunately if you want to paint over your tile the slick glaze will prove problematic as paint does not stick well to high gloss surfaces and you cannot sand ceramic tile. For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent. This armor can defeat 9mm pistol bullets. Hold a piece of 1x lumber against the sides of the heat shield to keep the edge tiles flush.

Three quarter inch thick ceramic plates over level iiia soft body armor is considered effective for level iii armor against rifles. Set the bottom row of tiles field tiles first then the edge tiles if any inserting spacers as you go. What i did was to use thick ceramic floor tile which is what is commonly used in diy body armor. Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it.