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Colt 1903 32acp
tksims
Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
How do you remove the rear sight?
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Neal
Drifted out is it? That simple? I have tapped very hard and have never budged it.
Some of the older dovetailed sights had tapered bases. Make sure that if yours is? You are tapping it out on the correct side. Usually it's left to right.
Flood the dovetail areas with liquid wrench or a similar product. The slide area of the pistol should be on a hard but protected surface. Leaving the sight enough clearance so it can move. Use a brass drift. Having another person holding the pistol while you are hitting the drift helps alot. Be careful of the grips so you don't mangle them. The old ones are fragile made of hard rubber, not plastic.
quote:Originally posted by tksims
Drifted out is it? That simple? I have tapped very hard and have never budged it.
Some of the older dovetailed sights had tapered bases. Make sure that if yours is? You are tapping it out on the correct side. Usually it's left to right.
Flood the dovetail areas with liquid wrench or a similar product. The slide area of the pistol should be on a hard but protected surface. Leaving the sight enough clearance so it can move. Use a brass drift. Having another person holding the pistol while you are hitting the drift helps alot. Be careful of the grips so you don't mangle them. The old ones are fragile made of hard rubber, not plastic.
Actually, have the slide off the frame and mounted in a soft-jawed vise.
quote:Originally posted by rufe-snow
quote:Originally posted by tksims
Drifted out is it? That simple? I have tapped very hard and have never budged it.
Some of the older dovetailed sights had tapered bases. Make sure that if yours is? You are tapping it out on the correct side. Usually it's left to right.
Flood the dovetail areas with liquid wrench or a similar product. The slide area of the pistol should be on a hard but protected surface. Leaving the sight enough clearance so it can move. Use a brass drift. Having another person holding the pistol while you are hitting the drift helps alot. Be careful of the grips so you don't mangle them. The old ones are fragile made of hard rubber, not plastic.
Actually, have the slide off the frame and mounted in a soft-jawed vise.
I don't agree. Done this a number of times, both ways. Leaving the slide on the frame, is the best way.
I don't agree. Done this a number of times, both ways. Leaving the slide on the frame, is the best way.
I'm not sure -- from a physics/mechanics perspective -- how leaving a slide on the frame (and not clamping it too?) is better. Anything to eliminate "bounce" or motion of the slide is best so the force to drive the sight out is all directed to the sight itself. If it's worked for you, that's fine, but generally, for any "pressed on/together" parts, holding the work as stable as possible is critical when trying to overcome the friction to separate the parts.
A little heat might help if it was superglued or epoxied. Hopefully it wasn't iodine in place.
A sight pusher is easier to control. A square or at least a half round punch is better than a full round one.
Why take it off is the real question?
So you can mount the red dot or scope? [:D][:D]