Beautiful lights guys! This is a great thread idea - I love glowing lights! PinkPanda, I’ve never seen that Sunwayman bezel before, with the horizontal tubes. I thought my V10r Ti was pretty well pimped but yours outdoes it!
I really need to take some group photos of some of this and I’ve got lots of others that aren’t included here, but I took a quick browse through my imgur account and grabbed a few random ones to share, in no particular order. I’ll follow up with more at a later date.
The tail caps are led lighted. D.I.Y. Illuminated tailcap
The little thin glowing tubes are trit vials. https://www.fasttech.com/search?trit%20vials
They offer several different sizes with the most common used size is probably 1.5 mm x 6 mm.
The tubes can be glued in using UV active glue that’s transparent. https://www.fasttech.com/p/1285104
I usually wait for Fasttech to have some kind of 10 or 15% discount code sale, then I stock up. FastTech coupon codes...help keep members updated - #203 by Jassim
When ordering 3 or more of the same item it becomes a bulk discount and the discount code doesn’t work, so I place more than one order making sure not to get into the bulk order discount, only buying 2 of the same item and using the code. They also offer a few 5 packs that’s the better deal.
You can also make some 7 year glowing night sights for alot less than store bought sights.
Moderator007 gave you some good links and info, I’ll add one more: www.mixglo.com. That’s my first stop for tritium tubes and its always where I order from, if he’s got the sizes I need for whatever job I’m working on. He also has what I think is the best adhesive - Norland61. The stuff isn’t cheap, but once you cure it, its literally glass-clear - it disappears. Its great stuff.
I indeed used a 365nm flashlight, with a ZWB2 filter to minimise visible light from the led, and a scrap of Lee 226 UV filter before the phone lens to minimise UV-sensitivity of the camera.
Can anyone recommend some real intense/quality GITD powder? I know they sell a lot of this stuff on Amazon and eBay but mostly it’s quite poor quality and the illumination is rather low even when exposed to hours of intense UV light.
Yeah not exactly your traditional slingshot but you hold the pistol gripy part in the middle, the rubber goes on the forky part at the end and the roundy part at the other end rests on your arm. This one was made to break velocity and energy records so it’s big and strong made to support 100lbs+ (45kg) of draw weight, although we tested to forks to 300kgs with no damage (maxed the scale and there started to be scary amounts of energy stored in the system so we stopped there).
Wish I could suggest an exact source but I use mostly doped printer filament. I can suggest though that you want to stick with the SrAl stuff but be careful with some listings because SrAl isn’t available in all the colors that the Zinc sulfide stuff is so I’ve seen listings that have a wide range of colors and list SrAl as the material but only some are SrAl and the others are ZnS. And the green stuff is quite a bit brighter than all the other colors, which again isn’t always obvious from listings since they sometimes brightness balance them to make all the colors appear a similar brightness.