Posted: 12/31/2010 2:39:14 PM EDT
Why do my amerglo sights say trijicon on them ??
is it just the tritium or does Trijicon own Amerglo or what ?? Maybe this has been covered before and I just missed it . Oh and by the way , These I really do like , they have a good sight picture with plenty of daylight around the rear sight for my old eyes. |
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Not a dumb question at all, I wondered the same. my "uncle's" armorer, glock certified etc. said the vials are trijicons put in ameriglo's sights. i also found this.... http://www.chuckhawks.com/ameriglo_night_sights.htm
I love my operators... "AmeriGlo night sights are powered by Trijicon tritium tubes, and so marked. In the words of AmeriGlo's Rick Callihan, "We make the metal here in Georgia, then send it to Trijicon where the tritium is installed. Trijicon sends it back to us and we then distribute the finished product." Those who haven't seen tritium sights at night but are old enough to remember radium numbers on wrist watches can visualize approximately how three dot tritium night sights look in the dark." |
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There are only two manufactures of Tritium vials for firearm use, Trijicon in the US and Meprolight in Israel. Every factory and aftermarket sight will use one of these two. My XS sights say Trijicon too, BTW. So the marking would have to do with the tritium vials and maybe the funky looking "T" would be the symbol for the tritium ??? Since isn't this stuff somewhat restricted or radio active to some extent ??? |
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Quoted: So the marking would have to do with the tritium vials and maybe the funky looking "T" would be the symbol for the tritium ??? Since isn't this stuff somewhat restricted or radio active to some extent ??? Yes. Tritium is regulated as it is a major component of nuclear bombs. Tritium is also banned in the US for "novelty" use. That's why you can't buy those cool key chains and stuff here. |
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So the marking would have to do with the tritium vials and maybe the funky looking "T" would be the symbol for the tritium ??? Since isn't this stuff somewhat restricted or radio active to some extent ??? Yes. Tritium is regulated as it is a major component of nuclear bombs. Tritium is also banned in the US for "novelty" use. That's why you can't buy those cool key chains and stuff here. Man, I'd love to have a tritium powered keychain. |
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Quoted: Tritium is not a major component of nuclear bombs. Tritium is widely used in multi-stage hydrogen bombs for boosting the fission primary explosion of a thermonuclear weapon (It can be similarly used for fission bombs.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium |
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Tritium is not a major component of nuclear bombs. Tritium is widely used in multi-stage hydrogen bombs for boosting the fission primary explosion of a thermonuclear weapon (It can be similarly used for fission bombs.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium If you keep reading your very own source and take that information into context, you will see that tritium itself is not used as a major component of nuclear bombs. Lithium deuteride is the "major component" which is used, and tritium is formed from it during the nuclear reaction. Up to that point, it is not tritium. "Since tritium undergoes radioactive decay, and it is also difficult to confine physically, the much-larger secondary charge of heavy hydrogen isotopes needed in a true hydrogen bomb USES SOLID LITHIUM DEUTERIDE as its SOURCE of deuterium and TRITIUM, where the lithium is all in the form of the lithium-6 isotope. During the detonation of the primary fission bomb stage, excess neutrons released by the chain reaction split lithium-6 into tritium plus helium-4. In the extreme heat and pressure of the explosion, some of the tritium is then forced into fusion with deuterium, and that reaction releases even more neutrons. " What that means to you, is that the tritium that eventually winds up in night sights is not a major component of nuclear bombs. It is very tightly controlled, but not for the reason you have stated. |
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They are really cool.
Man, I'd love to have a tritium powered keychain. http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTG4m9Ft6bFwLQ9sKgXEsu224_TVvUrPKvJeGKSaYGprBSBZihp Theres a ton of them listed on Ebay |