Silencer Central's Banish 30 HUB Retrofit Kit: Full Review

To say that Silencer Central’s Banish 30 suppressor is popular would be an understatement. The company has sold more than 100,000 of their flagship .30 caliber model over the years, and the can won Guns & Ammo's 2021 Suppressor of the Year. From the lightweight titanium construction, modular length choices, and hearing safe decibel reduction for calibers ranging from .17 HMR to .300 Weatherby, it is easy to see why. Though no longer for sale after the release of the new BANISH 30-V2, the original still holds up against many current suppressors.

I’ve owned a Banish 30 for about five years now. I’ve used it in the short and long configurations and on rifles of various lengths and operating systems chambered for .17 HMR, .300 Blackout, 6.5 Creedmoor, and .223/5.56. Never once have I had a performance issue with it. A suppressor is meant to suppress sound, and it does exactly that. I’ve put it through its paces over the years, though I wouldn’t say I’ve abused it, and everything has held up very well.

It was my first centerfire can and only my second suppressor ever, so it’s safe to say that in some ways I didn’t know what I didn’t know. While I’m very happy with its performance, there has been one key speedbump with my purchase. Thankfully, Silencer Central now offers a solution with their HUB Retrofit Kit.

The Banish 30 is a direct thread suppressor with a 5/8x24 attachment thread pitch. This didn’t bother me at all when I bought it because I only had two guns that I planned on using it with. My lack of foresight would become a pain point.

While the Banish 30 easily threaded onto one of my rifles, I needed a 5/8x24 to 1/2x28 reducer to use it on my AR. That in and of itself isn’t a big issue, but then I found myself in a situation where I had no muzzle device on my AR if it wasn’t being suppressed. Sure, it’s a minor inconvenience, but it’s one that Silencer Central recognized when they brought out the Banish 30 Gold.

The new Banish 30 Gold offered quick detach mounting options by pairing the suppressor with either a muzzle brake or a flash hider. I thought this was great news until I realized that the original Banish 30 wasn’t compatible with these new muzzle devices and my only way to take advantage of this new mounting option was to buy a new suppressor.

At this point, you may be asking yourself why I didn’t just remove the direct thread mount from the Banish 30 and install something like a HUB to enable use of the muzzle device of my choosing. Well, that’s because the direct thread mount on the Banish 30 isn’t designed to be removed - and even if you did remove it, Silencer Central used a proprietary thread pitch that didn’t work with any other products on the market. In short, I was stuck.

In 2025, Silencer Central decided to do away with their proprietary thread pitch when they released the Banish 30-V2. This new model is a bit lighter and a bit shorter than the original Banish 30, with better sound suppression, but the most important thing for me is that it was now HUB compatible right out of the box. Once again, though, there was no backwards compatibility between any of the components and the original Banish 30.

Thankfully, Silencer Central delivered what we’ve all been waiting for: the Banish 30 HUB Retrofit Fit.

This kit includes a HUB adapter that fits the proprietary thread pitch in the suppressor tube and a custom removal and installation tool. The HUB adapter adds 0.12” in length and 0.7 ounces in weight to the suppressor. Best of all, this is a DIY conversion.

When Banish 30 suppressors are assembled at the factory, the direct thread mount is installed with a thread locker and torque. Since the thread locker that they use is water soluble (presumably Rocksett), all you need to do is soak it in water, wait a few minutes, and then use the included tool to remove the mount.

The how-to video they provide to guide you through the steps says you should use boiling water and keep it in there for 15 to 30 minutes before attempting to remove the mount. The combination of water, heat, and time ensures an easy removal process. In theory.

With my HUB Retrofit Kit in hand, I grabbed a pot from the cupboard, boiled some water, and made suppressor soup. After 30 minutes, I took my Banish 30 to my workbench and secured it in my vise using suppressor-specific jaws. The removal tool was installed on a socket wrench, and I got to work. From the video example and what I know about water soluble thread lockers, I expected a fairly easy removal. It absolutely would not budge.

I reached out to the support folks at Silencer Central and was put in touch with a couple people who have gone through this process, too. First, the rep recommended I add some Dawn dish soap to the boiling water as that’s what he did. I figured it couldn’t hurt, so I gave that a try. Still nothing.

Back to the support folks. I asked if it was supposed to be this difficult and how much thread locker was usually put on when assembled. I was told that “it can take a few tries” and that there was more thread locker on there than a traditional muzzle device, but that it “wasn’t coated all the way around,” which would certainly have been overkill.

Feeling bolstered with this new info, I tried boiling again to no avail. Getting desperate, I ventured into online forums and tried every trick the posters said worked for them. Wet paper towels and a heat gun? Nope. Soak overnight in carbon buster? No. Ditto in water? Nah. WD-40? Brake cleaner? Nuh-uh and nada. 

At this point, I was feeling pretty defeated. Brute force wasn’t an issue either, as I even employed a breaker bar to my socket wrench and still got nowhere. I had reached a point where I was out of ideas on things to use to dissolve the thread locker and was afraid that any more blunt force trauma would result in damage to the suppressor. So, back to the Silencer Central support folks I went.

“Oh wow, you’ve tried everything under the sink,” the person on the other end of the keyboard typed. Yep. I sure have. They put me in touch with a product specialist who confirmed that I should absolutely not be having this much trouble, and that they would cover the suppressor under their warranty to see what was going on.

With a prepaid label in hand, I sent my suppressor and everything in the Retrofit Kit back to the mothership in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I was told that turnaround time would be two to three weeks, so I was very pleasantly surprised when a box returned to by doorstep in under a week.

Inside was the removal and installation tool that I had sent as well as my suppressor with the HUB adapter installed. I was grateful that not only were they able to remove the direct thread mount, but they also installed the adapter for me. (Not that I couldn’t have, but it was a nice gesture.)

From there, it was just a matter of picking my new HUB compatible mounts. I went with the Dead Air Xeno QD Nomad Mount and Xeno Mount Flash Hiders. As was expected, installation of these parts went smoothly and everything interfaces properly with the Banish 30 now that the HUB Retrofit Kit has been installed. Now I can swap back and forth between host guns quickly, easily, and without dealing with bare muzzles on any of my guns.

To sum up, a project that normally takes no more than an hour from start to finish took exactly three weeks. While that’s unfortunate to have endured, the two key takeaways are as follows: the HUB Retrofit Kit works very well and breathes much-needed new life into the original Banish 30, and the staff at Silencer Central are top notch. They offered all of the support they could both online and over the phone and, failing all of that, they got me back to the range quickly and at no extra cost.

If you’ve got an original Banish 30 and have long wanted to utilize HUB mounts but not wanted to buy a whole other suppressor, I highly recommend you pick up one of these kits I’d be incredibly surprised if you had the same kind of trouble I did. Even if you do, though, it’s a small price to pay for the convenience that is provided in the end.

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