Posted: 3/6/2007 3:43:23 PM EDT
| I want to try to put night sights on my G-17. Can anyone point me to a link? Thanks! |
I ended up taking a small flat head screw driver to the pin in between the outer parts of the bottom of the front sights and tapping it up toward the sight, then pusting the spreader looking parts of the bottom of the front sight together and it popped off. I then took the same flat head and stuck it in that groove on the ejector side of the rear sight and tapped on the screw driver with a small hammer 'till the rear sight was all the way out. I dinged up the factory sights alittle, but they'er still re-usable. I have little doubt now that I will be able to install my night sights when they come in. Not to mention I saved the $15 the gunsmith wanted to do the swap. Thanks Though. |
IF you try to install a steel rear sight in the dovetail, using a screwdriver, you're going to screw up, big time.
Well Thanks for shooting my plans full of holes! Where were you around 7pm when I had all the tools out, and I was gloating to my wife about how gunsmithing doesn't seem so hard? so you ThinkI need the sight tool or a gunsmith? Thanks seriously |
If you don't want to buy a sight tool, here's what I did. I just installed a set of Ameriglo's last weekend. If you have a vice, take either a couple pieces of plastic or strong rubber and put them on both sides of the vice. The plastic or rubber needs to be thick or you will fuck up your sight and maybe your slide. Put the sight into the dove tail on your slide (make sure they're facing the correct direction...it sounds stupid but you never know  ) and push it in with your fingers to get it started enough they don't just fall off.Place the slide and sight into your vice and start cranking away. It will start to get really hard...really really fucking hard. The slide will eventually want to start angling downward and be a pain in the ass to keep in the vice. When you can't vice them in any more then you will need to use an impact resistant plastic dowel to pound them into place the rest of the way. Try to keep that dowel as close to the base of the sight as possible so you're not putting too much stress on the tubes. You WILL hit those fuckers hard. If you use a screw driver, you will fuck up your sights (100% you will) and could very well fuck up your slide as well. If you don't have a decent vice, get one and it will save your ass with these sights. The sight tools are cool and all but I didn't have much trouble vicing them in and I can use my vice for other things as well. The biggest pain in the ass about my Ameriglo's was that they weren't notched for a punch. |