IronGoober wrote on Oct 5
th, 2024 at 10:36pm:
I've tried glow in the dark paint with zero success. However, drilling a hole and putting a LED arrow nock in it has had much better success. Just an FYI. If you were to do it, I would use clear packing tape to make the nock a couple of tiny fins, because the weird center of mass of a drilled gland makes it fly horribly unless it is plastic or clay.
EDIT: Just saw the latest post from James. THAT'S THE TICKET!! LED nocks also are a good option, but make sure to buy the cheap ones...they seem to work just as well.
The stabilization of those by putting on a small tail will really help, I'd imagine. I have yet to try it, so if you do, please report back!
I saw the LED nocks but they just look a bit bigger than I wanted. I don’t know if they can be trimmed down? In an ideal world what I would have is just a little LED bulb sticking out the back for minimum interference.
It hadn’t worked occurred to me to make fins or anything. Would they increase spin decay? Until the glow stick got snapped a little they
seemed to fly pretty well. My throwing was a bit off but they were pretty silent. I think I’ll do well to throw some in the daylight to see if I can see the flight stability or lack of.
I have just order some 2.2x22mm sticks, those were 4.5x37mm, to try in the 60 gram glandes. Further distances with smaller sticks might be too hard to find.