Once we lock it in here, it's not gonna shift while you're moving, but we do wanna center it up first. Our loop field here, we'll want it center on the plate. So when we insert our plate, we will need to adjust the velcro to where it's center. It's a tubular design, all the seams go to the inside. We don't have side seams on this plate carrier. I'll go over that in a little bit though, a little more in detail, but it's gonna be a snug fit. When you slide your plates in, they're gonna be kind of snug depending on the plate manufacturer. I got some… Looks like a medium level IV HESCO right here.įitting Your Plates in the Carrier (06:14): So now that my shoulder straps are adjusted, we'll go ahead and put the plates in. So we don't have like a bulge there on our shoulder. We can just go inside the main sleeve, reach up inside… And kind of work it flat. There's kind of a bulge there before you put your plate in or put the carrier on. All right here, you can see, I didn't get quite as flat. Bring the sleeve over and just… Get all the bunching out. You can flatten it out once it's in there. And then we're gonna pinch this together And just slide it inside the plate carrier. Leave your plate out for now, Scrunch all this down onto the plate carrier. Now this excess here is gonna be held in place by the padded sleeve. And the best way to do that is to just pinch it, put it down into this sleeve of the plate carrier itself, and then just kind of flatten it out. So you could put your push to talk through here, cables, water from the back or something, but you can also tuck these away. And then one nice thing on this is that it has a pass-through. So for me about an inch 1 1/5' overlap about there. I kind of know about where I am on a medium carrier. And then you can take this apart, put your pad back on And size it accordingly. So you could just take these off, completely, get it all sized up, you know, where you want and then kind of mark that with a pen or a pencil or something. Right here is our strap for our height adjustment And this with a buddy or something, or might take a couple tries. That's why I recommend taking your plate out so that you can just scrunch all this up, get it outta your way. So we're gonna go ahead and pull these down onto the plate carrier itself over the shoulder and just pull it all the way down. So A quick tip on this… Or a note is take your plate out, and then you're gonna go ahead and take these sleeves, because there's no… They don't velcro over each other. And then up here is where we have our shoulder adjustments. You use the front to get in and out of your plate carrier. Once you have your sizing here for your waist, you just pull this down… Like so.

So any of those companies that use anywhere from a 2' up to a 6' hook and loop cummerbund system, will attach to our plate carrier. The nice thing about this is that we try to keep it simple and to work with other people's velcro on cummerbunds. You have about 12' total… 10' to 12' total. So all your sizing for your cummerbund will be done back here. But we'll just, you just lift this up And you can kind of roll this, keep it outta your way while you're sizing. That's to protect from anything catching and pulling your cummerbund off. We have this cover flap, not a lot of manufacturers do that. So on this, the cummerbunds pretty self-explanatory on the rear. So we'll go over just a quick setup and inserting your plates and all that. The shoulder straps are gonna be fully extended that's to kinda just protect the pad so that the pad forms to you and doesn't get messed up in shipping. So your AC1 is gonna show up something like this. How it's gonna arrive and kind of a sizing and what plates it'll fit. So what we got here is the T.REX AC1 armor carrier, and I'm just gonna go over some of the technical specs. But the problem has been finding companies that can make the quantities that we need, or even make us a plate carrier that we really like. And what we wanna do is be able to offer armor carriers to obviously complement that armor. As some of you guys know, and as some of you all may have purchased HESCOs from us. So why are we even making a plate carrier? Well, in the recent years, T.REX ARMS has become a pretty prominent armor provider. You're not having to buy all sorts of accessories to try to build it out. You've got shoulder pads that come with the carrier. This is the T.REX ARMS AC1, you've got pockets for plates, an elastic cummerbund that fits some things.

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