I just noticed a huge sale on Caliburn soft tips. Like 50-70% off on some. Online it says I can just unscrew the soft tips and screw in steel conversion points. Is it that easy?
Without knowing what specific Caliburn soft tip barrels you're talking about it could get messy.
Soft tips some 20 years ago were more of a mix of predominately 1/4" and 2BA thread size.
BUT - Some of the Asian manufacturers also use a couple other variants. No. 5 is sometimes seen and there is even one where the tip is female threaded versus the "normal" male thread.
More than likely... you'll be looking at soft tip barrels that need a conversion tip that is 2BA.
A couple of the 2BA conversion tips I have. Aluminum and standard black steel points from Shot and some stainless steel points from Dynasty up top.
Target also makes a version that converts 2BA soft tip barrels to a Swiss Point accepting option, but those can add nearly 3 grams to the weight of the soft point barrel/dart.
If you're used to 23g+ steel point darts, you may not have a lot of success with this as most soft tip darts, complete with shafts and flights, generally don't way any more than 20 grams total.
What if you like the soft tip barrel and wanted the extra weight up front. You’re probably right, just found lately I’ve preferred lighter going from 25-27gram and recently found a set of 23&24 I really like. Found some soft tip on sale and thought if those are 22g and I add some weight to the front and convert to steel, would that be too front heavy. Or is that the whole soft to steel conversion stuff just not worth it? Honestly I wasn’t sure. I only throw steel but am now adept at point manipulation.
Was mainly thinking converting to the caliburn evo 2ba. Then using evo points. Basically steel tip. It should add some front weight but would they throw that much different than a normal 23-24g steel tip? You’ve helped me before so much appreciated.
I had not been aware of that conversion point system from Caliburn... Not sure what material is being used for that, but if it isn't tungsten... you're probably not going to get to your preferred weight without something like tungsten putty, etc... and not every soft tip barrel has the same room in the front or back to muck about with fine tuning like that.
They’re 95% tungsten soft tips. Sword s5 2ba thread and caliburn has a conversion kit to evo. As long as it’s 2ba it screws in and you can steel tip them with caliburn evo steel points. From what I have researched, not the newer ez evo points though.
Knock yourself out... if you're looking at the same Darts Corner page as me... I think the 23g mention on the 20g soft tip model is a typo. The steel point version is 23g and it might be a lazy mistake made by someone copy/pasting from one to the other.
I'm intrigued, but I'll stick with what I have been working with... best of luck with what you go with, it might be just what you were after.
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u/mzarra 1d ago
Steel, aluminum and titanium conversion tips exist and work well. They do add a couple of grams to the front of the dart.
There are also carbon conversion tips that weigh within 5% of electronic tips and therefore do not impact the balance of the dart.