waktasz Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 (edited) I have two limited guns, bith with fiber front sights. I'd like to try them with regular black front sights. Does anyone make, or is there some product that could double for a blackout fiber optic tube that I could put in the gun? Right now I'm trying some things with some electrical tape on the optic but it's not exactly pretty, or reliable. Edited December 7, 2008 by waktasz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Cheely Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steel1212 Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Something else you could do if the sharpy doesn't get it dark enough is to take black electrical tape and put over the middle of the FO sight and then Sharpy the end holes. The Electrical tape won't let any light go through where the sharpy can sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waktasz Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 Good call. That's what I ended up doing. It looks whoever owned this gun before me tried to ream out the hole where the fiber insert goes and now it is off center. The optic is really distracting now that its not in the middle, so I figured I'd try on both guns to black it out. I'm going to try to figure out a better way than sharpie in the future, maybe with some black wire or something, but for now this works pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Sierpina Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Before I removed my fiber optic front, I just sprayed it with sight black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loves2Shoot Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 +1 a sharpie is shiny black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkeeler Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I paint my fiber optics with flat black paint then install the new painted fiber. BK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el pres Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Well first I did the sight black thing but then I found it. We have a broom with black plastic bristles, they were smaller in diameter but I used one twice as long, bent it in half with some pliers to really smash it, and when it melted, black fiber optic !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM262 Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 +1 on the plastic broom, it works very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbean Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Can you make one of those in a lightened version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waktasz Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 Well first I did the sight black thing but then I found it. We have a broom with black plastic bristles, theywere smaller in diameter but I used one twice as long, bent it in half with some pliers to really smash it, and when it melted, black fiber optic !!! Good call! I will try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Well first I did the sight black thing but then I found it. We have a broom with black plastic bristles, theywere smaller in diameter but I used one twice as long, bent it in half with some pliers to really smash it, and when it melted, black fiber optic !!! Is there no end to human ingenuity? Apparently not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveU Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) I tried that once but couldn't get it to fit in the little hole. Edited December 10, 2008 by Surge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chirpy Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) I don't know for sure but someone might make shrink wrap insulation like that used to shrink around electrical wire solder joints. Try Radio Shack. Split it length wise and slip it over the fiber and hit with a little heat. Richard PS: Try to fill the holes with black epoxy...I forget the brand. Edited December 10, 2008 by chirpy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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