Hello All,
I picked up a no-dash 686 last weekend for a decent price. It's only issues are a little bit of light marring on the side of the cylinder, and a botched rear sight replacement.
A former owner apparently replaced the rear sight with a Meprolight night sight, but in the process apparently lost the detent plunger and spring. They also opted not to stake the nut in place, so the whole assembly is just screwed together for the moment with no real ability to adjust windage, except to take the whole leaf and screw out, turn it a little one way or the other, and screw it back together.
Since the sight has very very little glow left, I went ahead and ordered a standard 0.146 sight leaf, a new plunger and a new spring, with the intention if replacing everything back to a stock configuration. I also ordered the correct spanner bits from Brownells, as I didn't have them. I watched a couple of how-to videos on YouTube about the process, but in am curious to know if any of you who are seasoned sight replacers have any tips for a first timer? Mostly I'm concerned about the staking process. Is there a right way and a wrong way?
Thanks!
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I picked up a no-dash 686 last weekend for a decent price. It's only issues are a little bit of light marring on the side of the cylinder, and a botched rear sight replacement.
A former owner apparently replaced the rear sight with a Meprolight night sight, but in the process apparently lost the detent plunger and spring. They also opted not to stake the nut in place, so the whole assembly is just screwed together for the moment with no real ability to adjust windage, except to take the whole leaf and screw out, turn it a little one way or the other, and screw it back together.
Since the sight has very very little glow left, I went ahead and ordered a standard 0.146 sight leaf, a new plunger and a new spring, with the intention if replacing everything back to a stock configuration. I also ordered the correct spanner bits from Brownells, as I didn't have them. I watched a couple of how-to videos on YouTube about the process, but in am curious to know if any of you who are seasoned sight replacers have any tips for a first timer? Mostly I'm concerned about the staking process. Is there a right way and a wrong way?
Thanks!
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