RE: Critical thicknesses of building materials [TANKS]

["Gene Burbeck" <gburb-at-advantagecs.com>]

Agree, paintballs shouldn't bust that.

 

While we're on the topic, I did an interesting project a while back involving shooting paint balls REAL HARD. Since this isn't diectly tank-related, I'll just describe it a little bit. My 10 foot long cannon used a 1" valve opening very quickly to blast paintballs through 3 layers of 5/8" plywood. The 20mm steel balls which were actually fitted to the barrel would go through 5 layers of plywood.

 

Gene

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From: tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com [mailto:tanks-admin-at-rctankcombat.com] On Behalf Of burn995-at-aol.com
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:24 PM
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Subject: Re: Critical thicknesses of building materials [TANKS]

As far as i know, from what has been said in the forum though the last few months is that.As far as strength against paint balls go, you can compair it to the resistence of one sheet of luan plywood with at least two layers of fiberglass cloth and resin on it.This seems to be the low end. Compair that to a sheet of 2024T3 aluminum about say,.040 and your probibly on the safe side, without dents that is. Do's antone else agree.