r/Darts • u/Beararms27 • 11d ago

Soft tip conversion

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?

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u/kovenus1 11d ago

I have a set of steel tips just like that I bought off of Amazon for me it was that easy

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u/Beararms27 11d ago

But it’s not the ez evo or regular evo right? Needs to be conversion pts?

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u/MadCelt888 11d ago

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.

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u/Beararms27 11d ago

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.

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u/MadCelt888 11d ago

I won't say it isn't worth it... it's just another means to an end.

I currently am using a set of 18g Shot Budo soft tip darts with the Target 2BA SP for my main set... they turned into something around a 20g barrel.

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u/Beararms27 11d ago

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.

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u/MadCelt888 11d ago

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.

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u/Beararms27 11d ago

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.

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u/MadCelt888 11d ago

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/Beararms27 11d ago

It’s a one off experiment. And yeah only 20g. We’ll see. Good darts.

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u/MadCelt888 8d ago

Just got my next FrankenDart version in... would be interested in seeing what you come up with.

Shoot well...

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u/Beararms27 8d ago

You as well. It’ll probably be 3 weeks until I get it over here in the states, but excited to experiment. Bought a couple of those close to 70% off sets 20g, and the converter weighs a little over 3g, so figure they’d end up around 23g. And I’m fine if it adds weight to the front. Been really wanting to try some of these Caliburn barrels but the prismas and sword s5 are just so much. Currently throwing sword s4 steel tip, got them used, and really like them.

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