White lithium grease is a standard ablative for wet suppressors so Yes it adds considerable enhancement. I had no idea. Interesting. In my own testing with a .22" pistol I've only applied thin coatings to the K baffles, perhaps as much as 0.010" thick on all surfaces. I've found no notice...

I use a white lithium grease spread very thinly on the k baffle faces and inside the tube. It is a bit of a filth magnet. But it also makes it very easy to wipe off when cleaning.

Thank you Historian, though as it turns out the effort wasn't quite so brilliant; after some 100 shots with standard velocity CCI the two prongs of the slide stop lever leaped the bounds of the shallow slide cutouts and the slide jammed under them. Not too difficult to extract the slide again, but p...

I've no experience with a Glock, nor the Knights thing which looks very clever indeed. But I did decide recently to install a a slide lock on my Unique D4 .22"LR pistol. I used a length of 1/8" x 1/2" 304 stainless, formed into a stirrup to wrap around the duckbill (which I recently s...

2. For my situation, would a suppressed 22lr be a good alternative? I'm thinking of a standard velocity round such as a mini-mag. I know there are strong opinions about the 22lr as a defensive round, and I'm mostly asking about sound suppression aspects. I've no directly relevant experience in term...

I agree, if K baffle walls are 0.065" thick as seems about average. My 0.55" mini-K's (or X's) have between a 0.035" and 0.040" wall on the cones, with the contour carving of the face section being variable thickness obviously but worked fairly thin compared to the industry avera...

What components are missing from the pic in your first post? Here, sorry to hijack the thread a bit, but here's the original thread I started to show off this evolving suppressor: http://www.silencertalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=122425 Are all interior angles equal? Do you mean are the in...

Is your vent drilled parallel to the bore but off centered? The face vent is cut in with a ball end mill, run on my drill press with the K (X? these look more like a K to me, in cross section... where what most folks think of as a K baffle looks more like a sloped L to me) in an aluminum jig to mai...

At a guess perhaps the front edge clip on each K baffle may take some of the blame for the suppressor not being so quiet as you'd hoped. In my early aluminum K baffles, each a bit over 1" long, I made slightly deeper vents than that after initially testing with no vents on the cones. My volume ...

Thanks, I've had the cheap meter lecture a couple of times now. Hence my disclaimer stating that I'm aware it's not giving an absolute reading, only a useful relative reading for comparison among sounds I test locally. Since the sound intensity with my rather successful integral K baffle suppressor ...

It will be quieter by small margin if you line them up but will have more POI shift, if you index them 180 degrees apart it will have less POI shift and be a touch louder... Others may have different experiences this... Do you have numbers demonstrating the different decibel values for lined up and...

After posting comments in another thread it occurs to me I've not updated this thread to reflect the current state of things with my pistol suppressor. I decided last month to do away with the short aluminum spacer between muzzle and first K baffle, and added one more aluminum baffle to the front of...

Here's the thread where I detail most of what I've done:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=122425&p=897043
I've now updated it to reflect the addition of a 7th K baffle.

I've no experience with suppressing larger calibres, but if it's any help, I can say that increasing the number of K baffles in the same length of tube on my .22" pistol was a huge help in suppression using subsonic ammunition. It's an integral suppressor about 8" with a 0.87" ID, and...

In the case of my .22" suppressor, an over-the-barrel type using about similar volume around the long barrel ports on my ~7" barrelled Unique D4 and for the 7 short K baffles in the front section, I've found a single high tech rubber wipe to be of little use. Perhaps a 2dB to 3dB drop, whi...

Thanks for the notes gunny. Here's the steel baffle I made yesterday, for what it's worth. A bit smeared as my carbide cutter for cutting the face contour was getting a bit dull, and the little lathe was complaining a lot about working steel. It's just mild steel, but the tiny rubber belt on the TAI...

Tried a small modification to the 8" suppressor's baffle stack; drilled a 0.125" Dater hole in the first K, 90 degrees offset from the cross-bore vents. Testing this with the Remington CBee (650fps out of my pistol) my impression was that it was significantly louder on the first shot, and ...

Not really big on specifics, are you Capt.? Oh well. Seems to me that proportion could mean just about anything, same goes for port size and placement. I probably will some day get around to making a set of 'average' K baffles based on what I see from manufacturers, but that'll be a project for a ve...

Rebuilding the pistol suppressor package and returning to a standard K baffle would net you major increases in suppression and handling.While your baffles have the overall silhouette of a X baffle the design details alters function. Forgive my obtuseness, but... wasn't my initial post showing a fai...

Ah, those are interesting. They look somewhat more 'bulletproof' than my relatively thin-walled efforts. Perhaps important for high velocity stuff, but I've no intention of using that, only tried it once and it was plainly too loud for my tastes.

I like seeing this type of stuff showing up.Not sure why you deviated from a traditional K type baffle but if your happy with it I'm happy for you. Just so you know the meter is a wild card and will not give you accurate information at suppressed levels it just can't respond fast enough to catch th...

I've been further playing around with suppressing the pistol above, and have found some success and a couple of interesting, not exactly intuitive results. Briefly, I'm tending to favour an 8" tube over the 11", both for handling the pistol (it is VERY long with the 11" tube in place!...

I can happily concur. Out of my Unique D4 pistol with an 11" integral can and barrel porting Remington Subsonics fly at about 950fps and are very quiet, less noise than a competition air pistol. Same pistol shooting Federal at 1070fps is distinctly louder, though still subsonic except on cold w...

The bore on my 6 K baffle integral, posted elsewhere on this site, is 0.25" throughout. Alignment with the bore is excellent as the bore is concentric to the outside of the barrel on my old French .22" pistol. No baffle contact, accuracy is good, suppression is, I'm guessing, better than i...

Nice going! I've held off buying a tap and die for my tubing - 1" OD with a 0.87" ID - as I wasn't sure it'd be practical hand-tapping the tube. But it seems likely that for my use, mostly lower velocity .22"LR and much of the blast being taken up by barrel porting with my integral de...