So I came across danny5692's post on spacers for the FX Carbon Fiber barrel sleeve. His design looks great especially when resin printed. He was kind enough to share his design file so I tried to print it on an FDM printer. However, I did not have good luck due to dimensions and minimum thickness in my slicer, so I designed my own.
My first design was this:
However, after shroud installation over the spacers, I noticed that they slide up and down on the CF sleeve...probably due to fiddling with them too much. So I put some electrical tape to lock the spacers on the sleeve.
This worked well but I didn't like the tape because it is a bit kludgy, even if nobody can see it once the shroud is installed.
So I went back to the drawing board and made a longer spacer shaft so that it will have more friction between it and the sleeve:
I tested by putting the shroud on and off a few times with the o-rings and it worked a lot better without electrical tape holding the spacers to the sleeve. Even without electrical tap it retained its position on the sleeve where I placed them.
However, I did not glue the CF sleeve to the barrel, so I still needed to put electrical tape on the barrel to hold the CF barrel sleeve / spacer assembly to the barrel when removing the shroud.
I didn't do such a great job on the tape here but you get the picture...
Anyway, I shot a magazine and the scope retained center and even though I can't say there was an issue without the sleeve and the stock FX barrel spacers, when I learned about the CF tube I figured it has got to help.
Now I just need to find a CF shroud to make the FX Crown look more pimped out.
My first design was this:
However, after shroud installation over the spacers, I noticed that they slide up and down on the CF sleeve...probably due to fiddling with them too much. So I put some electrical tape to lock the spacers on the sleeve.
This worked well but I didn't like the tape because it is a bit kludgy, even if nobody can see it once the shroud is installed.
So I went back to the drawing board and made a longer spacer shaft so that it will have more friction between it and the sleeve:
I tested by putting the shroud on and off a few times with the o-rings and it worked a lot better without electrical tape holding the spacers to the sleeve. Even without electrical tap it retained its position on the sleeve where I placed them.
However, I did not glue the CF sleeve to the barrel, so I still needed to put electrical tape on the barrel to hold the CF barrel sleeve / spacer assembly to the barrel when removing the shroud.
I didn't do such a great job on the tape here but you get the picture...
Anyway, I shot a magazine and the scope retained center and even though I can't say there was an issue without the sleeve and the stock FX barrel spacers, when I learned about the CF tube I figured it has got to help.
Now I just need to find a CF shroud to make the FX Crown look more pimped out.