Hello all. I’m planning to start working on my flak vest pretty soon and I recently had the idea of using magnets to attach the plates. In my mind this seems both a simple way to attach plates and also guarantees that the vest itself looks nice and presentable without plates attached. However in considering this, I’ve run into a couple of concerns and issues that I figured I’d ask about to see what y’all recommend.
The first issue is that I’m not sure what the best way to attach the magnets would be. At first I was considering just gluing them to the inside of the flak vest and being done with it, but after doing a little bit of reading it seemed that wasn’t recommended in case the vest needs to be washed. However the alternative, interior pockets, would presumably leave visible stiches and I fear that would ruin the “presentability” of the flak vest.
The second and larger issue would be allignment and precision. I’m guessing that getting everything lined up properly with the magents is pretty important for this attachment method, and any help or suggestions on how to do that well would be greatly appreciated. I definitely don’t want to put a bunch of effort into integrating magnets to then figure out that a piece is permanently skewed because of a slight mess up
Any suggestions or help regarding this would be appreciated, even if it’s not regarding the questions specifically and just about magnet attachments in general.