thinking about custom-molding some blue 6P buttons

I like blue, it's my favorite color. My main flashlight has blue tritium, but the only fun pushbutton I could find is a green GITD from mountain electronics, if I remember correctly.

I've looked into what it will take to make a mold of an existing button, and it won't be easy. I believe I've found a company that can provide the proper shore A rated silicone rubber that I can tint to my preferred color. The fun part is that I could add in some blue glow powder, that'd be interesting.

Before I go through all of that for just a handful of buttons, any source available for blue buttons? I'm using the standard SF 6P tailcap on several lights, but this is the Ronac tri-tail.

Hmm, It looks like I don't have a current photo of my light with the trit vials in....

I saw some blue ones somewhere. I'll look for them and try to find the site and post the link.

I got mine from Jason (Dark Sucks). I have one if you want to try it.


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Thanks AF, it was actually the darksucks blue button that got me thinking. I didn't know he sold them individually. I will send him an email, see if he will sell me a couple. Thanks for the suggestion - however the idea of a blue glowy button is still pretty fun.

Just because it's Friday, I snapped a photo of the light this morning.

~D

Did you find the buttons?

Ye, I did but some from Dark sucks, they fit nicely and are a nice dark blue.

That said, I still think custom making a version with blue glow powder in the mix would look great. Having looked into it, seems it will cost about $60 to buy the silicone rubber and blue tint. Also, they say you should not mix less than 3oz per batch, which would be a huge number of buttons. Way more than I need and would necessitate creating more molds than just the one or two I was thinking about.
Still, it would be a fun experiment