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Posted: 7/26/2012 4:53:27 PM EDT
Pick this up today for 15$ on a Facebook group. Seemed like a good deal considering the shape. Anyone have any suggestions for an ACU plate carrier? |
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$15? Possibly fake, possibly broken, almost definitely stolen. Enjoy. From the front, that looks like a level IV Protech... maybe the NIJ04 version. If you got it for $15, then Toki is almost certainly correct. That thing is either fake, broken, stolen, or some combination of the three. Either that or you're yanking our chains. |
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Hold the plate up on your fingertips, front facing up. Using your knuckle, rap on a corner of the top face and listen for the sound. If it's a nice ring, it's intact. If it's more of a "thud", it's cracked. Same as testing for a cracked handgun slide. That just gave me sore knuckles.... maybe i don't under stand. Lay it flat , strike face up. hold on finger tips, knock on top end? |
| If the plate is intact, it will ring like a pane of glass. Anything else and it is damaged in some way. Not saying it won't stop a round, but it is less than ideal and if hit on the damaged portion it may be no more useful than a piece of paper as far as armor goes. |
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Is it common to have padding on the strike face? Appears to be honeycomb like structure. If you would, please quote my reply to your PM in a post here, in case anybody else has this question. Short answer, sometimes. Long answer, usually with Armorworks plates and sometimes with Ceradyne, varies by contract number, plate style, and manufacturer. |
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Is it common to have padding on the strike face? Appears to be honeycomb like structure. The exact construction varies by manufacturer and plate style, and even by contract number. I have had plates that were padded, yes. If you're taking it apart to inspect it, there should be an opaque black ceramic layer in front, followed by a similarly-thick layer of compressed, resin-reinforced fiber (usually white or off-white). These layers should be adhered together, and the entire assembly then wrapped in padding and/or a Kevlar outer covering to which the manufacturer labels are applied. The plates I've seen with padding have usually been made by Armorworks, from what I can tell they always include a padding layer. I also had one style of ESAPI from Ceradyne that had a 1/4" layer of closed-cell foam between the ceramic strike face and Kevlar outer wrapping. Hope this helps. Thanks, makes me feel a little better about it being legit. |
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http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t478/jeremyb331987/photo17.jpg Pick this up today for 15$ on a Facebook group. Seemed like a good deal considering the shape. Anyone have any suggestions for an ACU plate carrier? Let's shoot it. |
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