Brubz
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Haven't given up on trying to sight my Ruger LCP II. I painted the front sight with Krylon white acrylic paint.seemed to help. Have any of you guys tried this? Or maybe something better?
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Color over a white base coat seems to be a popular and effective recommendation. If you can't find sight paint, many folks use nail polishI put florescent orange over a base coat of white enamel.
It may, and it may not, youll have to try and see.I used Krylon white as my base have florescent orange on order. Will clear nail polish work as clearcoat?
Ok thanks. I'll try it without the clearcoat. I can always repaint and then clearcoat if I need to.It may, and it may not, youll have to try and see.
Mixing things like enamels and lacquers can be a bad thing and one may cause trouble with the other. I ran into that with a paint job on a gun where I used enamels for the paint job, and then sprayed it with a clear flat overcoat that turned out to be a lacquer. What happened was, it just made the whole gun sticky, and the paints never cured properly.
I use enamel nail polishes for my front sights that dont have night sights. I also use them over the inserts on my S&W revolvers that have them, as its brighter and stands out better than the flat they use. Gloss white as a base, followed by fluorescent orange. I havent found it necessary to clear-coat them, but whatever floats your boat.
The color is off in the pics for some reason, in person. they are actually "bright" orange.
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Same with the S&W M&P Bodyguard. The front sight is useless without paintAlmost all of my fixed sighted revolvers, along both LCP’s (1 and 2) and a couple of other micro autos, have the Testors white/blaze orange front sight treatment.
Before I painted them the sights on all of these guns were, for all intents and purposes, practically useless unless the lighting was perfect.
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