Does anyone else have one of these?

unstableryan

unstableryan

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So.. I have an interesting job. It's for a major university and this is my new toy.
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and this is where it's going to live:
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I'm interested in learning from anyone I can about running this kind of lab. I've been reloading a long time and I'm really comfortable there but this is next level. We have head rigs for helmets, and torso rigs for vests and clay panels and ovens, etc for mounting things to. It would just be fun to chat about it with someone who has actually done it before.

Thank,

Ryan
 
Ha, anyone that was following this.. It's a fully operation range now. I have even spent some time at a commercial NIJ lab in Wichita for some hands on training and it was great that it reinforced that we actually started out pretty well. I learned some stuff about clay block preparation from those guys down there though.

We just had something interesting happen. We have a blast simulator, it's a large titanium piston that simulates an IED going off underneath a vehicle. There's two like it in the world and ours is much much more powerful than the one at the blast injury research center in London England. Accelerometers showed that we hit 1163G's of acceleration over .007 seconds with the medium size brass shear pin... Oops.. too close to a real explosion.. haha. we were aiming for 100-150G's for those tests. We had to dial it down to nylon plastic pins.

Oh well, you have to do something for work right?
 
I'll try to put up a video of hitting an apple. we have a 4m ceiling and I can't reach it to wipe off apple sauce.

The cannon like machine is a Bill Wiseman universal receiver. You unscrew that red nut and toss on another barrel and then just screw it back on again.
 
I have tons of high speed videos, but imgur and photobucket only do pics. Do I have to youtube them? Perhaps dropbox might work? I'm logged into my office computer from home with teamviewer, so it's a pain. How about I just try to figure it our when I'm there.

And for you camera geeks, mine is a little older, but it's a Vision Research Phantom V711 with the fast option. 0.29 microsecond minimum exposure time :) I can make a bullet look like it's crawling, but there has been a learning curve to that thing. I can tell when I look at videos from a year ago compared to now.
 
You deserve negative feedback for not delivering on the video :)
Seriously this is great to hear this is actually being done in Canada. Does your school have an AV program at all? Get them to do the editing and you can focus and shootin' stuff.
 
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