Several years ago I tried to paint some lights with glow powder. I wasn’t (still not) experienced with air-brush and it was difficult to spray the powder evenly since it would settle in the paint. These are the lights shown in my avatar.
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.