So i have a couple of old things.
A gun that used to have tritium glow sights.
A watch that used to have tritium glow in the hands and hour-markers.
And these are things where I can not just buy new sights and slap them on, they are fixed to the thing.
How easy/hard it is to DIY these back to glowing? As in tritium glowing? Can you even buy that beta-radiating stuff in stores? I think there are certain specialists who can re-do tritium sights?
I know I can just buy phosphorescent paint from a store, but that requires that you shine a light on it for a couple of minutes. I'd like that "you don't have to do anything, and it will keep glowing for 15 years non-stop" glow.
Literally just buy new take off sights from boomers on forums for like $30 lol
Or brand new ones for like $120. Amortized over 12 years, it's $10 a year.
As for your watch, you should just stick it up your ass.
But the watch already was in my dad's ass for four years.
Another daddy's boy living off his fathers hard earned accomplishments. Have you ever shoved anything up your own ass a single day in your life?
Why is it that threads on /k/ always gravitate towards showing things up people's asses?
Its the original CC holster.
It's your god given retention holster. If you're not using it, you're wasting it.
Men were given prostates and a means of accessing them for a reason.
Is your dad CHIRS...TOPH...ER WALK....KEN by any chance?
Time stinks
POW
>Doesn't have the POW Ribbon
Way to go, QT
wait are tritium sights really that expensive? you can get sig p365s with tritium sights new for sub $500. are the sights really a whole quarter of the price?
>wait are tritium sights really that expensive
Why didn't you just type that into google?
It's really not the tritium that's expensive, but the quality metal sights.
Just look up your watch manufacturer, most of them will replace the tritium vials for a charge if you send it in to them.
As for your gun, you should just stick it up your ass.
Picrel is a Sig. I've replaced the sights on mine with Trijicon tritium. You need a good front and back sight pusher. I used a MGW, pricey but works very well. A Wheeler pusher did not work on the rear sight on a Sig.
I guarantee they're replaceable, since it's the same mechanism that lets sights be adjustable. Tritium's just going to lose half its glow after 11 years, you live with it.
As for the watch, you'll probably need to send it back to the manufacturer.
>Ass for the watch, you should just shove it up the mfg's ass.
You replace the sights OP, that's it. No, you can't replace the sealed radioactive vials or open them up and "pump in fresh tritium" or whatever shit you're imagining. That's just one of the tradeoffs with trit sights, they have a lifetime. Fiber sights were popular for that reason, though of course they don't work at night.
The ideal at this point would probably be an electric gun standard, where both rails and irons had an industry standard method to get a few watts out of the gun itself (small battery in the grip or wherever, hell, maybe in the mag) then even something as small as irons could have an LED. But right now if you want trit sights (I have hybrid fiber/trit sights myself) you just need to accept they're consumables, and in a decade or two they'll be too dim and either you use them as plain irons at that point or buy new ones.
>though of course they don't work at night.
They do if you have a WML. Some of the light produced by your WML will be reflected back at you and light up your fibers.
>you can't replace the sealed radioactive vials
Not OP, but I thought some companies would replace the vials for you.
They do, the vials are replaceable in most cases and that guy is talking out his ass. Welcome to /k/
The vials are like $10 too
>they're like $10
Unless times have changed, I call bullshit, they were stupid pricey in 2016-2017 for what they were. And at those prices I would put them in EVERYTHING.
Or wait, those must be shorter ones. I was thinking of those long ones (half to one inch) for israeliteelery making. Guess the ones made for sights are much shorter, aren't they?
>another thinly disguised "how do I get material for the nuke in my garage" thread
obeying the law is for gays but I think you need a special permit from the department of energy to play with tritium. either way it's definitely not something you can just do in your garage. I wanted to remove some vials on a gun that was being cerakoted since they can't go in the oven and it's not possible without whatever special equipment they have at the factory.
It'll be fine, those are labrstory grade videos, no amount of heat you can produce with an oven will affect them, and tritium needs a shit ton more pressure and heat to do anything either.
Trust me I'm a middle manager in a completely unrelated field of wor/k/.