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Sign o’ the Times, episode 4

 
 

Another aspect to the Castle Doctrine might be making your home more like an actual castle?



Posted by Drew458    United States   on 03/30/2008 at 02:25 PM   
 
  1. Drew, this is a sad aspect of ours and many other society’s.  Iraq maybe the worst with war going on everywhere.  Looks to me like many of the homes built there have taken this problem into account already.  For most others there are solutions.  this site should lend insight to new building ideas, (http://www.rewardwalls.com/) if you can afford em.  “unintended new mentality” how new is it really?, well I guess that depends on where you reside.  I suggest concrete box supports for stop signs and poles in the areas hit the most with this problem of city drive by shootings, this would allow the folks a chance to run for cover, kinda like the pads installed on the posts in England for those pesky text messengers that just cant seem to get by without the constant support of the cell phone. 

    PS It looks like corporate has known about this problem for some time and you can see it in the way a lot of corporations put there sites together, kinda like what you have detailed in your brief......Good Job!

    Posted by lateforwork2    United States   03/30/2008  at  08:56 PM  

  2. Ready for a chuckle?  That park is about 2 miles (maybe less) from the Los Angeles Police Academy.  Some guys just got no respect.

    Posted by Dr. Jeff    United States   03/30/2008  at  11:48 PM  

  3. I may be wrong, but I understand that current thinking in vehicle armor is alternating layers of hard and soft materials. The hard layers spread the energy of incoming projectiles over a larger area, the soft layers soak the kinetic energy out of it through drag.
    I don’t *know* that’s what’s being done… but I know that’s the logic medieval reenactors use when building their body armor, and I know the logic is valid. Trust me on this one, I tested it the hard way. The day before I went to take my physical for the Navy, a friend of mine snapped his bastard sword’s blade off at the crossguard.... across my left hip. Nice HUGE colorful bruise, the kind known as a “Walt Disney Sunrise” by our particular brand of nuts.... but that’s all. Had I been unarmored it would have, in all likelihood, broken the top of the left “wing” of my pelvic bone. Instead, the force of that blow was spread from the waist down to about 4 inches above the knee.
    Given that, if I were building a house and wanted my walls to qualify as armor… in the diagram shown, I’d probably want some thin sheet metal, kydex, or something of that nature between the foam and the fiberglass. Two hard layers, two soft layers.

    Posted by GrumpyOldFart    United States   03/31/2008  at  04:47 AM  

  4. I’d add a flexible rubbery layer to the outside of the 3/4” fireboard and another layer of 3/8 drywall over that. Because that would give me a room nearly as quiet as a recording studio.

    The Expanded Polyurethane foam insulation is great stuff, but it isn’t going to do very much to slow down any major bullet. It might slow .22LR a bit, but that’s about it. It’s just a really great insulator, and makes for a nice stiff home. The fiberglass is there mostly just for sonic properties.

    No, it’s the kiln fired solid clay bricks that are going to do the most work (not the crap “bricks” made from powdered stone dust and dye), followed by the 3/4” ply. The rest of the wall is just there to catch fragments.

    A good rifle bullet will go right through a cinder block. I’m sure it would bust up a brick too. The wall wasn’t designed to stop bullets forever, but it ought to do an Ok job against a few fairly random shots. Read the conclusions at Box O’ Truth.

    Posted by Drew458    United States   03/31/2008  at  07:29 AM  

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