This sounds interesting, I'm curious how you can adjust for windage?
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No-dovetail Novak rear sight mount
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Ned,
Come on man you could've asked me, I would've been up for that!! I'm deeply hurt that you don't think I'm guinea pig material
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If you don't post some pics of that I'll be bummed. BTW the cdp is runnin like a champ now, 700 or so rounds through it today and that damn steel insert is still shiny, *** did you do to it
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Come on man you could've asked me, I would've been up for that!! I'm deeply hurt that you don't think I'm guinea pig material
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OK, direct from the sanitorium, here are the pics. #1 shows it disassembled. I wound up studding-in a 10-32 to give myself a little hanger-downer to pin through. This is a 10-32 cap screw bottomed out fairly hard at the bottom of the hole and where the threads end on the shank. Then instead of a blind pin, I tapped the hole 4-40, so there is a set screw going fore/aft under the FP stop, which passes through the stud. This by itself should easily hold the thing in, but for a little extra, and to plug up the existing set screw hole, I put a 4-40 flathead in where the set screw was. Really, I think that this flathead all by itself would also do the trick. If I were going to use a screw-down only, though, guess I'd go 6-48. The original 5-40 thread for the original set screw is still in the sight and can be used as a jack-out screw hole (although I'll probably make this 8/32 before I'm done). I don't think you could budge this sight.
It's kinda frustrating doing this sort of work sometimes-- in this case, the rib on top of the slide is about .015 off center, which makes the whole thing look wrong, even though the sight is dead-center to the slide. I'll have to correct that, and the slide-top radii are different on the two sides, and very, very belt-sanded as far as being consistant. Pretty typical though.
A lot of work you say, Metal Smith? You got that right! The next one would go a lot smoother though, and I would be smarter to start with a sight that is not tritium inserted, and do that later. I would only do this on full-house gun as I don't think many people would consider paying what it would take to do it as a stand-alone job. Guess I'd call it a $125 upcharge from providing and installing the sight in the standard manner.
The dent on the freshly milled surface that the sight seats on, between the rectangular pocket and the hole for the stud, was already there in the bottom of the original dovetail.
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[This message has been edited by Ned Christiansen (edited 10-23-2001).]
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It's kinda frustrating doing this sort of work sometimes-- in this case, the rib on top of the slide is about .015 off center, which makes the whole thing look wrong, even though the sight is dead-center to the slide. I'll have to correct that, and the slide-top radii are different on the two sides, and very, very belt-sanded as far as being consistant. Pretty typical though.
A lot of work you say, Metal Smith? You got that right! The next one would go a lot smoother though, and I would be smarter to start with a sight that is not tritium inserted, and do that later. I would only do this on full-house gun as I don't think many people would consider paying what it would take to do it as a stand-alone job. Guess I'd call it a $125 upcharge from providing and installing the sight in the standard manner.
The dent on the freshly milled surface that the sight seats on, between the rectangular pocket and the hole for the stud, was already there in the bottom of the original dovetail.
[This message has been edited by Ned Christiansen (edited 10-23-2001).]
[This message has been edited by Ned Christiansen (edited 10-23-2001).]
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