Spanish Mauser FR-8

[AutoRiter]

Just discovered this really great forum! Looking for the front sight adjusting tool for the FR-8. Would really appreciate any help in locating one. Like most of you, I found this little rifle to be a good shooter at 100 yards and need to find the tool for sight adjustments. Many thanks in advance!

 

[cwalker3]

I use a pair of tweezers to adjust the sights on mine. If you can't find a pair with pointed tips, just grind down the tips on a regular pair. Works great.

 

[8200 rpm]

I know where you can get one!

Go to www.gunboards.com. Go to the Cetme/FR8 Spanish rifle forum and search the threads. There is a fellow who machines a front sight adjustment tool and sells them for $25 including shipping.

Good luck.

 

[trvlr905]

I just received a front site adjustment tool made by a guy named Steve Dale. It definitely works and I'm pretty happy with. Not a bad deal for $17 incl. shipping. His e-mail address is:

dalemm@concentric.net

Hope this helps. - Damon

 

[sleeping dog]

I made the sight-adjusting tool from some scrap 1/8" thick angle-iron. I cut a piece about 3/8" wide and 2" long, and left one end about 3/4" wide so I could grip it easy. Then cut a "V" in the skinny end to go over the post. Then took it to the grinding wheel to knock off the rough hacksaw edges and to "skinny" the two points left when I cut the "V". I had to adjust the distance between the points with a small hammer. I ground a little off the wide (handle) end so I could store it in the fake gas tube under the barrel (along with the original trigger spring). It took me about a half hour.

Some people recommend using sharp-pointed tweezers. On my gun, that would have worked once the post was loosened up. It was glued (cosmoline? rust?) in place.

It turns easy now.

Regards.

 

[Archie]

I made my adjustment tool

out of a GI slotted patch jag. Cut off the end, pried the bifurcation apart and filed the tips to match.