"glow in the dark" side dots

[umy]

not led lights, but fluoride ones. No need for cable routing etc. I guess you could just put fluoride paint on normal white dots, but that would probably wear off pretty quick.

 

[ProfessorInkyBubbles]

that would be awsome!!!  arty07:  :guitarplayer2:  :headbang1:  :headbang:  :blob7:  :glasses9:  :glasses10:  :icon_biggrin:  :icon_thumright:  :hello2:  ccasion14:  :guitaristgif:  :cool01:  :rock-on:

 

[JamesL]

I think this would actually be pretty cool

 

[kboman]

Oh yes please!

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Clever. So you can see that you play the wrong notes even if it's dark!  :hello2:

 

[line6man]

I was looking for glow in the dark side dot material a while back, and was unable to find anyone that makes/sells it.
It was suggested that I try mixing a glow in the dark liquid or powder into some white Milliput epoxy putty.

I think it would be awesome to see someone manufacturing and selling glow in the dark side dot material. I'm sure it would be a big seller.

 

[B3Guy]

just get some glow plastic and cut it into little dots. cant be too difficult. or im sure you could dap a dot of nail polish on them too.

 

[ByteFrenzy]

Tritium dots, originally intended for gun sights?
They have the advantage that they will glow in the dark even if they haven't been exposed to light previously. And, if I remember correctly, they come in several colors.

 

[Kostas]

I think this would actually be pretty cool

And useful when playing in the dark!

 

[AutoBat]

Depends how much is needed.  From the wiki entry on self-lighting: "Commercial use for Tritium is about 400 grams/year with a cost of $30,000/gram"

 

[stubhead]

Milliput is a great & easy way to put on side or face dots, black, white, terracotta and others, but it's totally opaque - if you mixed it with glow juice, only the very top layer of molecules would work anyway? You'd be better off drilling your dot holes and filling them with plugs cut from exiting glow plastic, then topping them with casting epoxy, even superglue. It seems to me that the liquid glow paint is already kind of weak, and it would get more diluted if you actually mixed it with clear epoxy or cyanoacrylate. It's hard to imagine a situation where anything would glow bright enough to help you with sudden stage black-outs, you'll be blind anyways.... sitting in your bedroom with your guitar & turning the lights on and off sounds just a little twee, huh. :icon_scratch:

 

[Wyliee]

I work in the pit in a local theater for musicals from time to time.  I usually just grab a little bit of glow in the dark tape used to lay out marks.  Very bright and quickly recharged during intermission.

 

[richship]

Depends how much is needed.  From the wiki entry on self-lighting: "Commercial use for Tritium is about 400 grams/year with a cost of $30,000/gram"

It used to be pretty popular on watch faces and hands. I understand these were hand painted and that some workers would sharpen their brushes by licking them. Bad idea when working with radioactive materials.

 

[line6man]

Depends how much is needed.  From the wiki entry on self-lighting: "Commercial use for Tritium is about 400 grams/year with a cost of $30,000/gram"

It used to be pretty popular on watch faces and hands. I understand these were hand painted and that some workers would sharpen their brushes by licking them. Bad idea when working with radioactive materials.

Sweatshop child saliva on my nice watch hands!? Eww. :doh:

 

[stubhead]

Only 99% of mutations are harmful - that means 1% are beneficial or an improvement to the species, and there have been a heck of a lot of sweatshop laborers over the years - better watch what you say.

Giant Mutant Chinese Sweatshop Warriors!

Aieee.... etc.

 

[bagman67]

Depends how much is needed.  From the wiki entry on self-lighting: "Commercial use for Tritium is about 400 grams/year with a cost of $30,000/gram"

It used to be pretty popular on watch faces and hands. I understand these were hand painted and that some workers would sharpen their brushes by licking them. Bad idea when working with radioactive materials.

Sweatshop child saliva on my nice watch hands!? Eww. :doh:

I think y'all might be talking about radium watch dials, not tritium.  And the sweatshop workers were adult women working inthe USA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls) , not children, but still, who wants drool on their watch dial?

Bagman

 

[richship]

I guess you were right about the material in the story. Here's an article on how the tritium ones work:

http://www.timezone.com/library/archives/archives631704126660375902

 

[ByteFrenzy]

What I was referring to are tritium powered dots as used in gun night sights. They are small sealed glass tubes filled with a minuscule amount of tritium, the inside of the tube is coated with phosphor (and probably traces of other chemicals to get a specific color). As mentioned in the timezone article, the radiation from the tritium causes the phosphor to emit visible light. Constantly, over their effective lifetime of a decade or two. The downside is that they DO emit some radiation but seeing how guns equipped with this sort of sights are probably carried on their owners person a respectable number of hours per day, and probably in the general midsection area, I would say that the risk is minimal. The real downside is that I remember them being rather pricey for a set of three for equipping a gun, so a complete set of side dots would be very expensive.

 

[simple]

OK, recently I drilled out my side dots to 1/8" holes, 1/4" deep, filled them with this stuff http://www.siteglo.com/index.html. I let that dry then topped it with a layer of super glue, let that dry and sanded smooth. Worked great and I can now see my side dots at all times on stage, lights on or lights off.

 

[Cagey]

Interesting stuff. How long does the glow last?