[Glenn] hasn’t put up action shots, but he did write up how he made his own “Bulletproof” glass. The idea is simple: make a composite sandwich of Acrylic and Polycarbonate plastic. Automotive grade uses a combination of glass and Polycarbonate. Great, now we’ve got one more thing on my list of stuff to shoot.
Even if it doesn’t stop bullets, but does stop scrapnel or whatever gets projectiled it sure helps. At least some protection than no protection at all….
I can see purposes other then protecting from bullets.
- Unomi -
Posted at 9:09 am on Jun 2nd, 2008 by unomi
I could see this being great for some awesome diy storm windows.
Posted at 9:25 am on Jun 2nd, 2008 by Rubicon
So this guy glues some sheets of plastic together and claims he’s “pretty sure” it’ll stop bullets? If I create a page about my mousepad that I’m “pretty sure” can stop armour piercing bullets, will hackaday post it on their website?
Posted at 9:29 am on Jun 2nd, 2008 by uncivlengr
hey he’s got a solid idea here and he’s detailed the fabrication, so I have to give him credit there.
I do agree with you unclvlengr, there should be some testing done with various calibers / distances, but the lack of that shouldnt detract from an excellent project.
also as mentioned, it should be pointed out that this has uses outside of it intended (which is limited in scope), storm windows for anyone in coastal area’s can be fabricated using a DIY approach.
Posted at 12:14 pm on Jun 2nd, 2008 by 0db
man, it’s 3 years old..
where are the tests?
Posted at 12:38 pm on Jun 2nd, 2008 by thijs
Tests must have failed….
Posted at 3:52 pm on Jun 2nd, 2008 by barry99705
haha i have unloaded 9mm and .22 rounds i n to a 0.24″ peace of polly and it deflected the bullet but went right threw
Posted at 4:49 pm on Jun 2nd, 2008 by alex mccown
im sorry i meant 0.14″
Posted at 4:50 pm on Jun 2nd, 2008 by alex mccown
Despite being dead, this idea is pretty BA. I’m betting at least one of the casemodders that visit this site is sitting on both a wide array of transparent plastics and an equally impressive firearm collection. Pop a stack of sheets for the cause anyone?
Posted at 7:47 pm on Jun 2nd, 2008 by Solenoidclock
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Sure would be nice to see some test results on this one.
Posted at 8:54 am on Jun 2nd, 2008 by Dave