LouSig Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Any options of weather to use a good quality flat black spray pain as apposed to Sight Black. I tried Sight Black and it just seems to rub off on the gun run. Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn jones Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 i would assume that the build up of paint would be unsightly. lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimel Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 I use Birchwood Casey Super Black (flat black type...they make a gloss too) on my sights. I use the stuff in the "Instant Touch-up Pen" dispenser. It takes a few minutes to dry but works well. It looks pretty thick going on but dries to a fairly thin coating in a few minutes. Big trick with this stuff is that you have to have the surface you are painting absolutely grease-free. Gun Scrubber takes care of that easily. I also took a bronze brush to the sight blade and knocked off the crap and most of the rest of the old paint first. Doesn't seem to be any more or less resistant to scratching/chipping than the stuff that the sight was originally coated with and, unlike the original coating, it is flat and not glossy. Krylon makes an ultra-flat spray that I am tempted to try as well. Of course that would pretty much mean removing the sight blade as I don't find spraying to be that precision of an operation and masking is a pain in the posterior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 I use the touch up pen also. Right after I bought it, I realized that it is exactly the same stuff as Testors paint pens I used to use to build models when I was a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 What Kimel said. The paint pen is the s***. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPatterson Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Since I am super cheap, I use the Sanford Markette 336 Plus permanent marker. All I want to do is knock the shine off the top of the front sight which this does without the buildup up of paint and it dries quickly. Since I use carburetor cleaner to clean the slide it also takes off the permanent marker but it didn't take off the Testors Acrylic. I used the Testors Florescent paint on the front sight to improve my concentration on the front sight but found out too much of my attention went to the sight that I lost track of the target. Now I use the paint on my magwell so I make sure I see the magwell on reloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRT Driver Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 I've got a can of Quick Color Flat Black that is really flat. Got it at Walmart for $1.98. Just spray into the cap and dab on with a Qtip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R112mercer Posted April 30, 2005 Share Posted April 30, 2005 Kinda drifting from what you want (cheap and weather proof) but I use a Super Smoker from Ray-vin.com. It's sort like a Miner's Lamp made out of delrin for smoking sights with calcium carbide. The black wears off easily, especially in wet weather, but nothing's blacker or flatter than this stuff. It's easy to touch up, though, just another twist of the water wheel on the bottom and smoke up before your stage. If you do it right you can even smoke your sights while the gun is still in your holster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Kline Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Mercer, Where do you get the calcium carbide? I bought the gun smoker from Brownells, but can't find anyone around here that has calcium carbide. I'd love to try it, but can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRT Driver Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Try a local welding supply company. Calcium carbide is used to make aceteline (sp). Champions Choice had it in the past for a couple $ per lb. Then there might be hasmat charges though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Hmmmm...did you try to website that R112mercer posted??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R112mercer Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Kevin; I bought mine from a local gun store in a big, 5 lb. style tin. It has the Gun House logo on it (the company from Natick, MA). You could try www.ray-vin.com, it's the company I got my super smoker from. The super smoker is loads better than the Gun House aluminum jobbie. Instead of having to drop a rock in and try to jam the cap on before the acetylene gets out the super smoker has the rocks in a sealed container with a water chamber and a one-way valve screwed on to it. Give it a twist and it squirts water on the rocks, then hit the flint wheel for a nice, large flame. Need more flame/smoke? Just twist the wheel more. I'm a PPC shooter, where you want nice, black sights. If you know any try them, they might give you a local source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhurd Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Carbide is getting harder and harder to find now that it is on the Homeland Security list . Last I hurd you had to have a License to deal it. WHat???? you never made a acetylene exploding device ??????? Cave crawlers are a good place to score carbide too.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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