Fitting the new rear sight:
I bought a different sight. I got a Heinie Slant Pro low profile. It was the same height as the Fusion but had a "smoother" profile. The sight was on sale on Heinie's website for $25 and shipping was $2 for a total of $27. A company officer attaches her business card to the order in case there is an issue, you can email her directly...I like this company...and I like the sight...a lot.
This time I took my time and used duck tape to protect the spaces I did not want to hit with the file. Also, the duct tape created a "ledge" that I could use to lean the file against and be more precise.
To avoid any dents and prevent the sight for flying and landing on the floor, I used a small piece of wood to drive to sight in and out. That allow me to have better control of the situation.
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This sight has a bit more meat than the Fusion, that helped the small gap between the sight and the slide to disappear.
I must say I like a lot how it looks and I believe the sight acquisition would be great.
Taking care of small details:
I started to remove as many marks and imperfections from the slide as I could. I did it carefully, trying not to create a bigger mess than the one I was trying to solve.
Used stones from 600 grit to 1000 grit.
I tried to be careful not to distort the "lines" of the slide
There were some deep marks that bothered me...
So, I did the best I could in them...
Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes...
One night I had a heated argument with my 15 year old daughter, and I got really angry...the best idea I got was to get a beer and "go work on the slide". I was trying to square the flats by sanding them using a marble block using 400 to 600 grit paper...I must have been really mad, because I stroke it so hard that I started to erase some of the roll marks...
That night I went to bed furious...
I erased a bit of the E and a bit of one S. Next day I took it to some local engravers, but none of the could fix it, they wanted to re-do the whole thing and it wasn't an inexpensive job.
I was tempted to erase it all, and have a clean slide. But decided to leave it like that. I will be hard to notice with the "naked eye" and it will serve me as a reminder of not to work on projects when I'm mad.
more to come...