Needle proof material sources - Kevlar or similar

[andy r]

Sorry dont do snakes

 

[bushwacker bob]

If your that paranoid about getting bitten carry anti-venom (species specific) or wear a pair of 15th C armour leggings. Not the chainmail but the articulated ones. You'll sweat a goodun and clunk around like Henry V going to the toilet but the fangs wont penetrate.

 

[JonathanD]

If your that paranoid about getting bitten carry anti-venom (species specific) or wear a pair of 15th C armour leggings. Not the chainmail but the articulated ones. You'll sweat a goodun and clunk around like Henry V going to the toilet but the fangs wont penetrate.

I think that's what these are based on from midwest . The best in the business in viper protection IMO, light and strong.

 

[Teepee]

I think that's what these are based on from midwest . The best in the business in viper protection IMO, light and strong.

Crocodile Dundee-The Star Wars Years.

 

[helixpteron]

Crocodile Dundee-The Star Wars Years.

Now that is funny!

 

[bushcraft_lad]

I Dont think there is a fabric that can STOP needle's as there is no weave tight enough to stop a 1mm wide or so tube going through it.I may be wrong but just my 2p on it

regards,Jordan

 

[Pharaoh]

Dear Friend, perhaps this is what you're looking for.
Guaranteed needleproof; snakeproof and briar proof !
I have them and they work as advertised.
Google this: Rattlers Brand snakeproof chaps and gaiters
ATB
Pharaoh

 

[BOD]

Mark,

My "solution" is decoy.

I have baggy trousers over the boots. The reason being that it will strike at the fabric assuming that is the flesh.

Mind you that does nothing for those vipers resting in bushes by the side of the trail.

Get a dog or let others go first. Remember how I let you and Dave walk ahead in the jungle??

Ash

 

[Buckshot]

Get a dog or let others go first. Remember how I let you and Dave walk ahead in the jungle??

Ash

cheers Ash, that makes me feel so much better!!!

Mark

 

[snelgrave101]

th material used in fire blankets is quite tough , i dont know if it will stop a needle but maybe worth checking out .

 

[JonathanD]

th material used in fire blankets is quite tough , i dont know if it will stop a needle but maybe worth checking out .

Not a chance of stopping needles, certainly not a Bitis.

 

[Rahere]

In the UK, we have another concern hovering the other side of the Channel, the Asian Hornet. This vicious thumb-sized pest has wiped out the French wasp popluation, looks like it's about to do the same with most other insects, and is making bees terminally endangered.
The last word heard from DEFRA is that they want to try sorting out the first nest themselves, before using us beekeepers as the frontline troops in the fight. What they didn't consider is that they want us to go up in our bee suits, which only sometimes keep bee stings out and most certainly are pointless against the bigger, longer and more poisonous hornet stings, in cherry-pickers from which we'll have no quick escape to sort out these buggers nests in the tops of trees. Memories of WWI artillery observers in balloons comes to mind.
We need something proof against a 0.5mm o/d 10cm long sting. Kevlar's sewable by needles the same size, so that's a non-starter - I think we need something heat-sealable. Yes, I have an account at Vestguard. Any ideas?

 

[bamma29]

I have a project in mind and am looking for some kevlar type material that will stop needles and other sharp things of that ilk
Any idea where I can buy the material from that isn't already made into a stab proof vest or chain saw trousers?
I understand why it's difficult to get hold of but I just can't find any sources myself.

thanks

Mark

What about a fabric or material that can stretch with the bite sure it would hurt but the poison is what is deadly. They have material out there I'm sure, the have a suite not that used for body armor that is a gel like material and in millsec of a bullit hitting it turn to a hard metal. Its some kind of iron molecule when the sensor detects the energy of the bullet it instantly charges the material turning it from gel form to a iron then back to gel. Its next generation but unless you add carbon fiber and kevlar and getting he flexibility just right its going be tough.