I don't mean to be disruptive, as I am interested.
But when you say it's heat treated to your specs, do you have any proof supporting it's legitimate ballistic ability?
I'm curious to know if you bought actual ar500 steal and coated it up here or if you are rebranding the actual product manufactured in the states or?
If I'm to trust these plates I want to insure they are designed to stop shots. What does the extra anti-spall coating insure? Why are you adding more if the "typical" ar500 plates are fine (as seen in videos)
Thanks.
The plates are cut from custom made AR500 Steel as per requirements. Based
on our field tests as well as lab tests done by S&J partner James Horne Eng P.
We have all of the steel foundry test data and hardness tests for each
sheet that is made for us.
AR500 can come in a range of hardness and your off the shelf AR500 is not the same as what we are using, what it does work at times, the intent of AR500 was never intended to stop bullets, it was intended to be impact resistant on large surface like back-ho buckets , snow plow.
To get AR500 steel to work well as armor it has to be harder then ar500, which ranges from 430 brinell to about 480, but not too hard or it will crack, also to be noted, how the AR500 gets to the 500 rating depends on the Foundry and the clients needs.
Each plate is water jet cut , then edges are had ground , to remove any chance of embrittlement of the edge of the plate.
Then are formed /curved in one pass to reduce stress.
Plates then re heat treated and inspected , inc each plates is Lab
hardness tested for consistency, anything that falls out side out 2% range is then taken out and shot.
Then we sent for anti spall coating.
Coating is. Paxcon mil spec anti spall/ frag coating , while it is made by
a famous truck bed liner company, it is a very high grade product that is used by
the US navy for blast mitigation on battle ships.
We apply .250 on the front and .150 on the back face and over lap the edges.
we have been working with US based armor companies to get the right combo of how to apply the anti spall to the steel plate, its very heart warming to get help from people that you would think are our competition , but as we are in Canada, they are more then willing to help.
we are just about to get an L4 rating on our plates, many many tests have been done, but the ballistic labs we are using for the NIJ testing is backed up.
We re issue/test out plates any time, we change or upgrade and of the specs or MFG process .
we will gladly post the reports on the new plates when we have them.
The good news is the s&j plates and likely the best made AR500 plates on the market.
And the only one to offer a L4 Steel plate
These plates are intended to be offered as a low cost high quality made in Canada product, for people that don't have the funds or are not issues $1000 plate sets.
I was shocked at how many LEO,s have ordered our plates, we are trying to fix that.
While not as cheap as other AR500 plates in the USA, we feel, we have a higher quality product.
Also to be noted, you can not export these types of finished goods out of the US, unless its for an agency in Canada, it is also months and months of paperwork.
Could we do it cheaper? for sure, but then we would not put our name on it, like all of our products, they are " bet your life on it quality"
We are proud to say, we don't have a fast warranty department," like other Canadian companies" , as we see very few issue, doing it right the first time, is what we try to do.
Fast warranty replacement will not help you when your in the moment, be in a competition ,back packing in bear country, busting bad guys or in the sandbox.
BBB
