629-5 rear sight

[billhilly66]

My 629-5 classic took a dive off the bench and landed on the rear sight and bent the blade. I need a rebuild kit, spanner bit, staking punch, and a blade. I’m having trouble finding where to get just the parts I need. Brownells has a kit with enough parts to fix a bunch of them but I only need to fix 1. Also, I’d like to replace the blade with a plain black one. I never did like the white outline.

If someone could direct me where to get the stuff I need, I’d be eternally grateful.

[billhilly66]

My 629-5 classic took a dive off the bench and landed on the rear sight and bent the blade. I need a rebuild kit, spanner bit, staking punch, and a blade. I’m having trouble finding where to get just the parts I need. Brownells has a kit with enough parts to fix a bunch of them but I only need to fix 1. Also, I’d like to replace the blade with a plain black one. I never did like the white outline.

If someone could direct me where to get the stuff I need, I’d be eternally grateful.

[Alk8944]

The staking punch, split screwdriver bit and the sight blade kit are all available separately from Brownell's, just call them and ask instead of trying to do it on the interne from the on-line catalog, which can be difficult at times.

When you call be sure to order a couple each of the windage screw springs and plungers. These do not come with the sight kit and are notoriously easy to lose when disassembling and trying to reassemble the sight. Even if you don't lose them it is common for the windage screw head to be burred around the plunger hole preventing them from coming out. The burrs occur from contact of the sides of the screw head dragging on its bore in the sight base, I have two of them in my sight parts drawer right now.

I don't recall about Brownell's, but if you order the sight kit from S&W Customer Service it comes with an instruction sheet showing how to to do the entire operation.

[billhilly66]

Thanks! I'll call them tomorrow. I can't figure out what I need from their website half the time. Good call on extra springs and plungers. I’d planned on using the big plastic baggie trick but you never can tell…….