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Rohrbaugh Products and Accessories => Gunsmithing or Modifications for your Rohrbaugh => Topic started by: fultoncoshooter on October 14, 2008, 05:34:29 PM

Title: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: fultoncoshooter on October 14, 2008, 05:34:29 PM
so........ has anyone had there R9s fitted with a tritium insert? is it possible? do the make vials that small? its something i wouldnt mind having done to my R9s if so who did the work

thanks
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: Fat Boy on July 03, 2009, 12:27:48 PM
Very interested in this as well, anyone try or care to say that it can't be done?
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: tracker on July 03, 2009, 02:50:34 PM
Email : custom@mmcsight.com

The above, MMC custom shop in Las Vegas, may be a good
place to start.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: tracker on July 03, 2009, 04:09:45 PM
Also, the phone nos. of the MMC custom shop are

702 267-9457
800 998-SITE

Their website says they will be state of the art and
fully functional in October.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: Fat Boy on July 05, 2009, 07:32:13 AM
Thanks Tracker, I will give them a call and if they can do it I think I'll send them my LCP first to see how it goes.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: tracker on July 05, 2009, 02:01:40 PM
Good plan; let us know how it works out.
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Post by: yankee2500 on July 19, 2009, 01:35:16 PM
 I spoke with the place that did the work on coreys gun, and they said they tried doing inserts on a Rohrbaugh and there was not enough meterial left, and the inserts would not stay in.
John
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: tracker on July 19, 2009, 01:38:49 PM
That makes sense to me; there just isn't enough real estate.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: Fat Boy on July 24, 2009, 04:05:25 PM
Well according to Trijicon and Tool Tech, the company that Trijicon recommends to do the site installation, you simply can not get nightsites put into a R9.....bummer.  They told me that it isn't that the sites fall out, which is what I read else where, but that they actually break during the installation, seems odd but oh well.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: mefly2 on April 01, 2010, 07:54:20 PM
Dovetail the slide ... insert proper height f/s with proper "glow" ... feel the glow ...
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: tracker on April 01, 2010, 08:18:14 PM
After some previous experiences with a cracked slide I would not touch it to add sights.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: mefly2 on April 05, 2010, 11:53:27 AM
I will defer to your experience then; certainly not worth the risk if you've been down that road.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: dano1200r on April 27, 2010, 11:19:17 AM
IMHO, if you need night sights with a Pup, something is wrong.(unless you just wanna do it for the sake of it).
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: kjtrains on April 27, 2010, 01:13:24 PM
Now, there ya go.  I agree!    :)
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: kanuist on April 27, 2010, 06:16:56 PM
I asked about some kind of night sights before I bought my pup.  Now, I wouldn't even think about it.

This gun fits my hand so well and points so naturally that I don't think sights are really needed.  
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: PursuitSS on September 13, 2010, 12:38:35 PM
Just ran across this thread.

I call B.S. that tritium can't be installed in an R9s! I would say that they don't want to fool with the amount of trouble it would be.

I have a Colt Nite Lite (correct spelling) that has tritium sights. It was a Colt Custom Shop .380 Mustang with tritium sights. Those sights are TINY!!!

Here is a photo I found of the Nite Lite:
(http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q125/PursuitSS/ColtNitelite.jpg)
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: Reinz on September 13, 2010, 01:58:53 PM
That guy probably never even held an R9.

I have S & M ASSOC Colt  GoV custom with night sights, so does my brother.

So what.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: yankee2500 on November 07, 2010, 12:37:49 AM
I have a Kahr P380 with night sights, but that doesn't put then in an R9.

John
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Post by: kjtrains on November 07, 2010, 12:51:40 AM
Great, John! :D
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Post by: kcub on November 19, 2010, 10:53:18 AM
Each and every Sig P238 has night sites.  

They are basically just an improved and updated Colt Mustang.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: yankee2500 on November 19, 2010, 01:54:54 PM
Each and every gun I have seen with night sights has removable
sights, not sights that are milled with the slide blank.

John
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Post by: kcub on November 19, 2010, 07:35:59 PM
and that's just how the Mustang started out

Here's a dumb question, is there such a thing as tritium paint?
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: yankee2500 on November 19, 2010, 08:55:51 PM
Tririum is regulated by the NRC and is not sold in the US.
I also found this info about trying to make paint with it for night sights.

For luminous sights, I recommend just getting a Trijicon sight.
Because it uses a phosphor-coated capsule filled with tritium gas, it will glow brighter than anything you can cook up at home for the simple reason that the beta is so low in energy that any solid or liquid absorbs most of them before they can reach the phosphor.

John
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: kjtrains on November 19, 2010, 11:24:11 PM
Good info, John!
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Post by: flintsghost on March 26, 2011, 09:50:13 AM
How about luminova paint.   That is what Breitling and others use to make the dials and hands on a watch glow in the dark.   It may also be regulated by the NRC, I don't know, but it is very popularly used by a lot of watch companies.  Even Rolex has gone to it.   The first problem would be to find a "watch maker" who works with it who wants to fool around with a handgun slide.   The second problem would be how well it's going to stay on when it is constantly exposed to solvents oil and the elements.   In order to explore those possibilties you would need to start searching the net for someone who specializes in reluming watch dials and hands.   There are places that do that.    I don't have a link but there was a watch person in Flagstaff, Arizona, who did do faces and hands a couple of years ago because he did a watch for me.


Whether or not one needs night sights on a pistol like a Rohrbaugh is another subject altogether.    I personally think that one might be very disappointed with the result and with the utility.   The Rohrbaugh is a fine pistol for it's intended purpose.   It is not nor was it ever intended to be a 50 yard match grade gun.   It is a fairly close range defensive pistol whose chief asset is it's small size and quality.   It is a lot better than a "Push/Pull" gun.   That's a term I coined in my classes for a pistol for people who can't shoot or seem to learn to shoot properly.   It means  Push the gun into the target till the front sight disappears and pull the trigger till the target either disappears or you can see through it.  It's a facetious way of dealing with people who can't seem to get the light to come on about trigger control and focusing on the front sight and was always delivered with humor and good nature because as most of us know, in real life, it won't work for a variety of reasons.

But for those who want night sights,  if you think you want them, it's only money....get what you want or think you need.  Even if it's purely psychological, if you think it helps it probably will.   As for me I'll do without them on these mini guns.    

Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: yankee2500 on March 26, 2011, 04:51:41 PM
I checked with a watch maker, there are actually some very small inserts some of them use but they can not provide them to the outside world. :'(
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Post by: Richard S on March 26, 2011, 05:31:49 PM
This NAA G380 has "Gutter Snipe" sights with tritium inserts. After nine years they still glow in the dark.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/RichardS/g380-meltedpolishedguttersnipesights.jpg)
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: kjtrains on March 26, 2011, 10:00:55 PM
I've got TruGlo Tritium Night Sights on a new Glock 17, Gen 4; sure hope they're that good in that length of time.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: Reinz on March 28, 2011, 05:18:02 PM
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This NAA G380 has "Gutter Snipe" sights with tritium inserts. After nine years they still glow in the dark.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/RichardS/g380-meltedpolishedguttersnipesights.jpg)


Love that set up.

Just plain simple and cool.

I have the same set up on a custom Colt Defective Special.

Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: kowski1911 on September 01, 2011, 01:40:11 PM
all i can say is the reason there isnt a nite sighted rohrbaugh yet is there is too thin of material in the slide to support a night sight. Though there is experimentation going on at the rohrbaugh factory to find a reliable way to have a night sight as we speak.
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: kowski1911 on September 01, 2011, 01:44:09 PM
and as far as that night sighted colt goes it real ive installed those sight before on the colts. but it wont work on a r9, the thickness of the front part of the slide is aprox. .050 wich is thinner than the mustangs
Title: Re: Can it be done and by who?
Post by: yankee2500 on September 01, 2011, 11:49:03 PM
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all i can say is the reason there isnt a nite sighted rohrbaugh yet is there is too thin of material in the slide to support a night sight. Though there is experimentation going on at the rohrbaugh factory to find a reliable way to have a night sight as we speak.


There is at least one night sighted R9 I read about in the archives. The owner sent it out and had the Tritium inserts installed in the front and rear sights, but the company that did the work will not do any more. :'(