Hey, hey, hey!!! Let's keep it civil in here, alright?Brian D. wrote: Whew, it's so much less keyboard work to quote partial posts from you than TSiWRX, Thug Hunter.
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carmen fovozzo wrote:Brian...if you look at the pics of the one I have the sights are well protected......
Carmen, it's like Brian wrote - the damage mechanisms are different. What breaks a Tritium vial and causes it to leak and no longer glow is typically a different type of event than what breaks a fiber optic and lets it fall out of its holder.Brian D. wrote: High volumes of shooting will for sure break fiber optic tubes, or cause them to fall out occasionally. Tritium vials not so much from use, but bumping them into barricades under recoil and what not, definitely a bad thing. Repairing the latter, of course, is way more expensive and annoying than staking/melting a new piece of FO into place.
I've yet to avail myself of the combination tritium/fiber optics; Tru Glo had enough issues with them, early on, to justify a reboot of the things. I'm told they did a good job with what's made now, and took care of unhappy customers who bought the version 1.0. Didn't follow the details of that because I had no skin in the game.
With the TruGlos, IIRC, the initial complaints were that they were falling out of their holders (the body of the sights) and that the material of the fiber-optics were actually being "melted/"eaten away" by various common "plastic safe" gun cleaning agents: which then caused the vials to become damaged. Some owners self-addressed the issue by using clear fingernail-polish or similar to retain the insert in the housing, but again as Brian wrote, TruGlo's revision supposedly took care of this, and their C/S was supposedly exemplary in their efforts to address problems experienced by earlier users.
The incandescents were, no matter what, still more fragile than many of us (everyday folk, even) would have liked, but the LEDs are bomb-proof.Heck I'm still a bit wary of Sure Fire lights because in spite of the ad copy in early days, the bulbs on the things wouldn't survive a three foot fall on a linoleum floor, much less the high speed low drag activities of the folks shown deploying them "in harm's way".
Also IIRC, initially at least (although I'm not sure today, as I have not pursued their own LED upgrades, only various aftermarket drop-ins), their LED-upgrade modules ("Conversion Heads") suffered some sort of problem with the contacts.