The Kevlar barbershop

[CincinnatiFiero]

heard this on the radio and I called bullshit, but I googled it and found it
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29282528/

I think we just figured out how to protect soldiers overseas.

[Aaron]

So tightly woven hair might stop a 38 caliber friday night special with a 2" barrel. Let's try it with a 223 out of an AR, or even a Glock compact 9mm.

[The Dark Side of Will]

Get the joke, dude. It's there. Keep looking.

Actual body armor won't stop a NATO 5.56.

[Aaron]

Huh. My powers of observation fail me. Care to explain?

[CincinnatiFiero]

So tightly woven hair might stop a 38 caliber friday night special with a 2" barrel. Let's try it with a 223 out of an AR, or even a Glock compact 9mm.

Did you get that it was the hood, and in front of a kwik-e-mart? And the reason for attempted murder was, "she don love you no mo" not exactly high brow criminals with nice guns.

[Aaron]

A friday night special is not a nice gun.

[Xanth]

That, is one of the funniest news articles I've read in awhile.

[Shaun41178(2)]

the tv in the headrest slowed the bullet down.

[Blue Shift]

So tightly woven hair might stop a 38 caliber friday night special with a 2" barrel. Let's try it with a 223 out of an AR, or even a Glock compact 9mm.

Actually, you know where "ballistic nylon" came from, right? They used to make armor out of it before Kevlar, Spectra, and other cool shit was invented. Barely stop a .38 Spcl and was bulky. But anyways yeah.

[The Dark Side of Will]

I worked on a machine in Petersburg, VA that turned Spectra fibre into the armor material. The material's not really cloth. The stuff is tough. There was some excess tangled around some components at the front end of the machine and I couldn't cut it.

[CincinnatiFiero]

A friday night special is not a nice gun.

I was referring to the gloch or AR.

[Blue Shift]

I worked on a machine in Petersburg, VA that turned Spectra fibre into the armor material. The material's not really cloth. The stuff is tough. There was some excess tangled around some components at the front end of the machine and I couldn't cut it.

Scary stuff if you somehow got your fingers tangled into some of that getting wound up into a machine. Cool part is that Spectra can stop level 3 and 4 rifle rounds...

[The Dark Side of Will]

By "worked on", I mean like a car... I did maintenance and alignment. The machine wasn't running when I worked on it.

There were three parts to the machine. The first part took spools of fibre and unwound them, placing the fibres next to each other in a sheet. It then sprayed a heat curing glue on the sheet, layed wax paper on it and rolled it up. It produced two rolls at a time. This sheet, of course, had the fibres running its length.

One of those rolls was taken to the third part of the machine. The other was taken to the second part. The second part of the machine unrolled that roll one width at a time, cut it with a laser (because a blade would wear too fast) and kicked it sidways to be rolled up. This machine turned the roll with the fibres lengthwise into a roll with the fibres widthwise.

That roll was then taken to the third part of the machine with the other roll from the first part. The two rolls were unwound and laminated, with the heat from the lamination process curing the glue. The resulting material was two plies with the fibres orthogonal, but it was not cloth. The glue wasn't rigid, so it was flexible, but of course VERY tough.