Padded Plate Backer Comfort Pads with Ventilation, Convective Cooling – Qore Performance

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Foam plate carrier comfort pads or plate backer pads from First Spear, Ferro Concepts, and T-Rex Arms are worn behind your armor plates, inside your plate carrier plate bag. Foam pads act as insulation, trapping heat. Here is how to make ventilated plate backer comfort pads to provide evaporative plate carrier cooling.
Foam plate backer pads and plate comfort pads are all the rage right now for military, law enforcement, and civilian plate carriers. But, is adding insulating foam to your already hot plate carrier really a good idea? Here is an ultralight, super ventilated padded plate backer option that doesn't use foam, doesn't insulate, is 90% air by volume, and ventilates in every direction. It also weighs next to nothing. This is how to build the most comfortable and most ventilated plate backer pads in the world in about five minutes.