WBlacklidge
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Oh geez. I didn't realize it was the same tool. Thanks for the heads up. Any words of advice before I attempt to use it?
Did either of you consider properly fitting the rear sight so it could be installed relatively easily? Especially night sights just don't need to be beaten on with a hammer. Sorry you had a problem, but it was entirely avoidable.
I design and manufacture sight pushers. I know mine will remove Shield sights, but it isn't necessarily easy!
I'll take one. PM or email me.
Rob
Thanks. I'll be in touch,Didn't intend this as an advertisement. If interested, check the ad in the classifieds and go from there.
That guy was supposed to be a gunsmith. He's been there for decades. After he brought out my slides and I saw what he did to my Shield I just wanted to get out of there. He didn't even have the rear sight on my Compact centered. I had to do that when I got home. He mentioned filing the dovetail next time. What next time! He should have done it there!
This is the exact same reason I started tuning air rifles. I sent mine out to be tuned and they came back a mess. And the reason I work on my own cars.
I'm going to look at Brownell's for a dovetail file and replace my sights on my Shield. Should I size the dovetail on the slide or the sight?
By the way, I called Apex and talked to Steve. He offered to install the striker block and spring for free if I'd send the slide to him. If I could only go back in time.
Rob
Rear sight out, slide suffered no ill effects!! A cutoff wheel in my Dremel was the answer... clamped the slide down to a worksurface, and very carefully worked back and forth across the slide, making a wider groove than the cutoff wheel, so it wouldn't bind in the groove. Got almost all the way through- as far as I carefully dared- and the sight tapped right out with a punch.
S&W- it doesn't have to be this way!
Wes
S&W'S HYDRAULIC PRESS really pushes them in there.