Competitive Testing

One day I was wondering why everyone shows the required test where the 2×4 is shot at a brand new screen. Some bounce off the screen and others keep right on going trough the screen. They of course fail the test. The manufacturer then sets up a new screen and the try it again until the 2×4 bounces off. Ahhh the sweet smell of success. The main problem with that is that in the Real-World, there aren’t any do-overs. Once, is all that you get. You either stop the object of something breaks. So, I wanted to show what would happen with our screen after it was beaten up a bit and NOT new.

So, we located an old piece of fabric that we used for testing, cut it to size and then I cut a 6” slit in the screen just to see what would happen. The next two videos shows what we found. The first video shows an 8’x8’ screen supporting about 1,200 pounds that we found around our shop, most of those pounds come from our Pizza Fridays.