I like the look of carbon fiber, whether its a vinyl wrap or the real thing... I have multiple barrels for my FX rifles, one of the barrel kits I have is a 177 for my Crown... It has the pull out style, larger diameter shroud and does not fit my Dream Tac, I ordered pellet probes for all three of my barrels for both of my FX rifles... I found myself having to swap shrouds between my 500mm 22 and 500mm 177 barrels to use either on my Dream Tac... I ended up with an extra part when I ordered a shroud for my 600mm 25 barrel to use on my Dream Tac, the part I ordered and didn't need was the air stripper, anyhow, I had one extra for the thin style shroud...
Instead of doing a carbon fiber wrap on the stock barrel shroud (which would add weight) I decided to make a real carbon fiber shroud to fit my 500mm barrels... It came out great, a perfect fit and I think it looks great too...
20mm OD X 18mm ID Carbon Fiber Tubing, cut to length (carefully) with a Dremel cut off wheel, the two fittings used on a stock FX Dreamline 500mm barrel shroud, sand the edges of the threads down just a bit until they fit the ID of the carbon fiber tubing, two very small drops of 5 minute epoxy on the threads of each fitting to secure in place...
A couple photos...
Ken
Instead of doing a carbon fiber wrap on the stock barrel shroud (which would add weight) I decided to make a real carbon fiber shroud to fit my 500mm barrels... It came out great, a perfect fit and I think it looks great too...
20mm OD X 18mm ID Carbon Fiber Tubing, cut to length (carefully) with a Dremel cut off wheel, the two fittings used on a stock FX Dreamline 500mm barrel shroud, sand the edges of the threads down just a bit until they fit the ID of the carbon fiber tubing, two very small drops of 5 minute epoxy on the threads of each fitting to secure in place...
A couple photos...
Ken
