Remove Broken Front Sight

[Styx]

Title and picture says it all? Any suggestions? Should also be noted that seems as the manufacturer uses red loctite as well to help secure the sight... Been banging on it, but she aint budging thus far.

 

[Blue68f100]

Take a soldering gun or micro torch to apply heat till it smokes to break the loctite down. Then remove. Note, some sights go in and out only 1 way. Need to find out the correct direction for your gun. A sight pusher may be better than a punch on apply load. I've done them both way.

 

[Rotnguns]

I suggest checking the other side of the slide below the sight to make sure there is no set screw before trying to drift the sight.

 

[sparkyv]

Good advice above. I offer encouragement: it'll come out, it wasn't born there!

 

[jmorris]

I’ll 2nd, what’s the inside below the dovetail look like?

Measure both sides of the dovetail with the blades on a caliper. It’s not uncommon for one side to be wider than the other, you want to push it to the loose side vs wedge it tighter, if that’s the case.

 

[Taurus 617 CCW]

What is the brand of the gun? If its an XD, good luck. They are tighter than (can't say on a clean forum). You will need a sight pusher for that one. I recommend this one: https://www.glockstore.com/Sight-Master-Sight-Pusher-Tool. Make sure you pad the sides of the slide really good with 3x5 index cards and electrical tape on the slide itself. If you don't want to mess with buying any tools, take it to a gunsmith. The may have to mill it out if its bad enough.

 

[edwardware]

Been banging on it, but she aint budging thus far.

If it's that bad, check for a cross-screw, secure it in your bench vise and carefully cut a slot down the center of the sight base. Just before you touch the slide, the sight will collapse on itself and drop out.

 

[Jimfern]

That slide looks just like the one on my Kahr K9. I just replaced the night sights on my K9 made in 2003. I took my solder iron, cranked it up to 700 degrees and then heated up the front and rear sights for about 4 minutes. I didn't see any smoke appear, but the sights got really hot. Then I used this sight pusher from Amazon "HJP Products Sight Pusher Universal Adjustment Tool" for about $35 to slowly move the old sights from left to right and then I installed replacement sights going from left to right. I did notice that Kahr used some type of glue to secure them from the factory.

 

[beag_nut]

Take a soldering gun or micro torch to apply heat till it smokes to break the loctite down. Then remove. Note, some sights go in and out only 1 way. Need to find out the correct direction for your gun. A sight pusher may be better than a punch on apply load. I've done them both way.

When holding the pistol as if sighting on the target, the sight will push out from the left to the right. And in the opposite direction to install. Common industry practice.

 

[SGW Gunsmith]

I'd set the slide up in my milling machine and "zero" off the bottom of the dovetail in the slide. Using a 1/8 inch end mill, I'd mill a slot until there was around 0.0050 of metal left and then knock it out.
If you don't have access to a milling machine, some judicious use of a square, smooth cut file, taking your time and checking often, will get you down close to where the metal in the middle of what's left, will give up.

 

[sparkyv]

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