/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2571346
buy some gypsum bandages, make print of face, fiberglass cloth + epoxy resin, cut edges and holes.

>>2509380
about 25kg. Can't test am german noguns fag, asked the youtuber techthisoutmeow and zna productions to test my method. Various types of glass filament layers with epoxy/polyester resin can be made into 3a armor. Still waiting for a response. It's good against slashing and bashing too. Doubt a professional samurai with a ten thousand fold katana can cut trough a full plate.
>>2509382
see pic rel for basic idea that applies to all pieces I made. I dunno how you would print that. Gonna paste my an explanation

It consists of a backer plate (9 light + 9 heavy layers), porcelain shards and a topper (3 +3) encasing the ceramics. Wanted to use 2 offset layers of ceramics, instead I placed the first and additional shards on what I deemed crucial parts of the armor.

This is the basic method for all armor parts I made, a full plate with porcelain for my mask, forearms and torso, the rest consists only of the backer type plate, 18 layers of sandwiched light and heavy glass cloth.

Made a visor from 1cm thick polycarbonat. Went trough some trial and error while attempting to heat bend it. Made a bubble free curved piece with our oven, the trick is to heat it up to 150c first and frequently open the door to let out steam, after a while turn it up to 175c. I want to thank thermoplastic anon for that info again. Another thanks to soap bar anon, scrub a bar of soap then wipe with a dry towel on glassy surfaces like glasses you don't want to fog up with your breath, it really works.

>>2501936
I saved my first and third thread as pdf for myself to look at, in the second I didn't make progress. It's lots of text, let me condense it.

My idea is combining finely woven light glass filament weave with heavy woven roving, into a composite armor plate. Epoxy resin as adherement.
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It consists of a backer plate (9 light + 9 heavy layers), porcelain shards and a topper (3 +3) encasing the ceramics. Wanted to use 2 offset layers of ceramics, instead I placed the first and additional shards on what I deemed crucial parts of the armor.

This is the basic method for all armor parts I made, a full plate with porcelain for my mask, forearms and torso, the rest consists only of the backer type plate, 18 layers of sandwiched light and heavy glass cloth.

Made a visor from 1cm thick polycarbonat. Went trough some trial and error while attempting to heat bend it. Made a bubble free curved piece with our oven, the trick is to heat it up to 150c first and frequently open the door to let out steam, after a while turn it up to 175c. I want to thank thermoplastic anon for that info again. Another thanks to soap bar anon, scrub a bar of soap then wipe with a dry towel on glassy surfaces like glasses you don't want to fog up with your breath, it really works.

My current armor weighs 23kg, I still have to attach the pauldrons, but I'm a lazy bastard. I got some more tips if you're interetsed.

Instead of buying endless amounts of brushes to apply epoxy, buy a can of nitro cleaner (that stuff to clean paint from brushes). Fill up 3 old glasses. After each epoxy job, clean the brush in the first, then second glass and finally let it sit in the third. After doing this method a while, the contents of the 3rd glass will become gooey, empty it and refill. Saves you quite some money, especially if you sometimes use only a small amount of epoxy since it would render the brush useless if not cleaned.

/k's pfg archieved

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good question, I want to give techthisoutmeow a bit more time he seems buisy. I just hope he'll get to it eventually, am even donating to his patreon

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see pic, detailed it in #1 but dunno how to archieve it on such archieving sites. I got it saved as pdf and pngs. Great way for me to keep track of my epoxy measurements, progress and especially great info from some anons. I treat it like an open diary.

quality suffered heavily of that pic, doing this on my phone with stupid online programs