How to Properly Install Sights on your Pistol

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GorillaGunworks

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Hey guys, so i just uploaded a new video on my youtube channel on how to install sights on your pistol without the use of sight pushers. its very simple and not many tools are needed to complete the job. i hope this helps some of you out. If you havent already done so hit the subscribe button on my youtube channel to show some support and help the channel grow. Thanks guys.

https://youtu.be/UOPk2e19lRM
 
This video illustrates the danger of free education via inter web/U-tube. It’s good for regular sights but If you are installing Tritium sights, don’t hammer on it with a drift. You don’t want to break the tritium vials. Better to make a brass pusher that fits the sight and mount it in a drill press. With the slide in a vise that is clamped down, press it in. You don’t need power. Just lower the chuck with the pusher the same as you would a drill bit.
 
You're doing it wrong.
The correct answer is HIDEOUS 3D-printed sights held on with hose clamps. ;)

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(Yes, they did work. No, they were not easy on the eyes.)
 
3D print one!

That infamous group of files floating around that has the anti's panties in a bunch? Yup you know the one, Defcad.

There is a very good Glock sight pusher among those files. A 1/4 20 screw and nut complete the 3D printed parts. Actually might be 5/16" 18 screw and nut can't remember right off.

Cost is about 3 bucks worth of PLA or ABS, if that. Works great. I would recommend ABS for it's strength.
 
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4V50 Gary said:
This video illustrates the danger of free education via inter web/U-tube. It’s good for regular sights but If you are installing Tritium sights, don’t hammer on it with a drift. You don’t want to break the tritium vials. Better to make a brass pusher that fits the sight and mount it in a drill press. With the slide in a vise that is clamped down, press it in. You don’t need power. Just lower the chuck with the pusher the same as you would a drill bit.
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That is not true friend you can install them as described I have done 100s of them this way at the shop without ever breaking a vial. That is why it's protected by a steel construction (the actual sight)
. It's purpose for being made of steel is in case you accidently drop your firearm and it so happens to fall on your sights it will not damage the vials and cause your night sights to stop working.
 
Centuriator said:
IF you think you are going to be swapping out sights on a lot of handguns, a high-end sight pusher is essential, frankly, and make the job a lot easier. I've replaced sights on dozens of Glocks for myself and many for friends.

The video is fine though and is definitely an option.

Thanks OP.
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Thank You brother I appreciate it.
 
Lmao nice. I got a good laugh with that one. Bet it worked in a pinch.
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Aye. It's a Marlin 36 with a 444 barrel stabbed into it. I wanted to be certain that the barrel was at least half-decent before proceeding any further with the project, but had no appropriate spare sights on hand.
It worked quite well.

With another successful 3D printed sight test fire completed this past weekend (a Bubba'd Jap Type 38), I've learned a lot about sight design, various attachment methods, and much more about how to 3D print usable sights. (The beginning of all these 3D printed sights was a Marlin 336 sight that I was prototyping. ...But that's another subject, and I don't count the design evolution.)

Anyway... I didn't mean to sidetrack or hijack. With everyone else saying were doing it wrong, I figured I'd add some levity to the conversation.
 
FrankenMauser said:
Aye. It's a Marlin 36 with a 444 barrel stabbed into it. I wanted to be certain that the barrel was at least half-decent before proceeding any further with the project, but had no appropriate spare sights on hand.
It worked quite well.

With another successful 3D printed sight test fire completed this past weekend (a Bubba'd Jap Type 38), I've learned a lot about sight design, various attachment methods, and much more about how to 3D print usable sights. (The beginning of all these 3D printed sights was a Marlin 336 sight that I was prototyping. ...But that's another subject, and I don't count the design evolution.)

Anyway... I didn't mean to sidetrack or hijack. With everyone else saying were doing it wrong, I figured I'd add some levity to the conversation.
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That is definitely awesome, thanks for sharing. That's what I like about the forums, finding like minded individuals that share the same interests in tinkering and making something cool.
 
Thanks. I do enjoy the knowledge, experience, and common passion here, as well. Some people irritate me. I irritate some people. But, overall, I keep coming back. I like it here.

I actually ended up posting a photo of the "raw" sight the day after my reply here, in another thread.
It's post #9 in this thread, if you're curious.
 
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