Sight Black

Nicole Hamilton · Post by **Nicole Hamilton** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:17 am

Steve Swartz wrote:Also-Nicole- who makes the carbide gizmo you are referring to?

It's the Ray-Vin Super Smoker from Ray-Vin.com, priced at $35.

bubba_zenetti · Post by **bubba_zenetti** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:43 am

I second that super smoker. Nicole was kind enough to smoke my sights and that thing laid out some pretty nice blackness. As a matter of fact, the smoke soot is still on my pistol and it has been 2 nights.

That is a nice unit. Looks pretty smooth. A must have to add to the shooters paraphanellia bag :)

Steve Swartz · Post by **Steve Swartz** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:42 pm

Thanks!

Steve

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:21 pm

Steve Swartz wrote: It is called the "Super Black Touch-Up Pen" and has the phrase "Flat Black" on the barrel of the pen. It came in a "Net Weight 1/3 Fl Oz (10 ml)" size.

Steve

Steve,

I thought that was probably the one you meant, and it's one of the products that did not work well for me. What I found was that it did not cover bare metal (e.g. the worn top corners of a front sight) evenly, and left streaky patches. That's true, at least, of my sample. Since you raised the topic again, I pulled it out and did a little testing to confirm my memory.

Then I tried something new: I first applied a coat of another ink/paint that did cover well and is very black. I used a Sharpie Industrial pen, but probably any similar indelible one would do. While this is deep black, it does reflect light. However, the B-C flat black goes on very evenly over the Sharpie ink, and removes the reflectivity. Seems to work well, even in direct light.

This is all probably over-kill, but it might help someone.

FredB